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  • Desert Shield, Desert Storm vet reflects 25 years later

    “Twenty-five years ago the country was a very different place. I remember watching the news coverage of the invasion back home. Before long, flying units were mobilized and out; we were pushing everything through.” In the summer of 1990, President George H.W. Bush deployed U.S. Armed Forces into

  • Desert Storm: 2nd Bomb Wing leads the air war

    In the early morning of January 16, 1991, the 2nd Bomb Wing deployed seven B-52G Stratofortresses crews to Iraq in a single, secret mission that would mark the beginning of Operation Desert Storm.