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Operation Desert Storm
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Boogie 'til You BounceFrom Green Bay To The Persian GulfThe 432nd Civil Affairs Company in Operation Desert Storm |
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Table of Contents |
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| Page | Chapter |
| 1 | Moving Out: To Bragg and Beyond |
| 8 | The Linkup: The Advance Party Joins the Main Body |
| 10 | Mission Assigned: Kuwait City |
| 15 | A Side Trip to Emerald City |
| 16 | North to Kuwait City |
| 19 | Mission Deployed: Kuwait City |
| 21 | The Kurdish Detour |
| 30 | Postscript |
| Note: Footnotes relate my personal observations and experiences of our deployment. | |
Deployment Dates |
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| 1990 | |
| 12/11 | Advance party activated for Operation Desert Shield |
| 12/19 | Advance party arrived in Saudi Arabia |
| 1991 | |
| 1/3 | Remainder of the 432nd activated |
| 1/6 | Main body and members from the 415th and 308th leave for Ft. Bragg, NC |
| 1/17 | Air war began |
| 2/5 | Main body arrived in Saudi Arabia, joining advanced party. Housing available at "Khobar Towers" in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. |
| 2/13 | 432nd moved to Al Jubayl |
| 2/24 | Ground war (Operation Desert Storm) begins |
| 2/25 | Trip to King Khalid Military City (KKMC, or "Emerald City") |
| 3/1 | Arrived in Kuwait City |
| 4/7 | Departed Kuwait City |
| 4/11 | Ordered to Operation Provide Comfort |
| 4/24 | Arrived in Incirlik, Turkey |
| 4/26 | Arrived in Zakho, Iraq |
| 5/27 | Official takeover of Camp I by the United Nations High Commissionar for Refugees (UNHCR) |
| 6/1 | Official takeover of Camp 2 by UNHCR |
| 6/4 | Departed Zakho |
| 6/10 | Departed lncirlik for Ft. Bragg |
| 6/19 | Arrived back in Green Bay |
| 6/22 | SSG Walter A. Coyle releases official 432nd Civil Affairs Company unit history. |
Preston's Letters |
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| Date | Location |
| 3/19 | Kuwait City, Kuwait |
| 4/5 | Kuwait City, Kuwait |
| 4/11 | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia |
| 4/23 | Ramstein, Germany |
| 5/11 | Chameju, Iraq |
| 5/14 | Chameju, Iraq |
| 5/15 | Chameju, Iraq |
| 5/29 | Camp Redeye, Zakho, Iraq |
| 5/29 | Camp Redeye, Zakho, Iraq |
| 5/31 | Camp Redeye, Zakho, Iraq |
| Note: Mail was bad in the Gulf, but not nearly as bad as it was in Bosnia five years later. Even when I was with the SF team up in the mountains of Kurdistan, we still got mail ferried out to us on the resupply choppers. I didn't think to hold onto the ones I received, but my girlfriend at the time held onto the ones I sent her. | |
SSG Dutch's Desert Storm Diary |
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| In civilian life, Steve Dutch is a professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Dutch is now a SFC and was the 308th Civil Affairs Group NCO of the Year in 1994. A member of the 432nd Civil Affairs since 1982, Dutch kept a daily diary from August 2, 1990, through October 12, 1991. | |
| Note: I originally published extracts from Steve's diary here on my Gulf War site. Now that he has his own, you can read the whole thing! | |
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