AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (Combat Aircraft 90)

Desert Shield – Desert Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Gulf War
Throughout this January and February America and its allies everywhere have been recognizing and commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operations Dese...

AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom I-VI (Osprey Combat Aircraft 99)
The AV-8B was, and still is, the only tactical aircraft that could deploy with Marine forces on amphibious assault ships and provide air cover and clo...

War in the Persian Gulf. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. August 1990 - March 1991
Twenty years ago, the Persian Gulf War captured the attention of the world as the first test of the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War and the first larg...

Operation Desert Shield: The First 90 Days
Operation "Desert Shield" was the military operation which put some 500,000 troops, airmen and sailors of the United States and allied forces into the...

So Many, So Much, So Far, So Fast : US Transportation Command & Strategic Deployment for Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm
Strategic mobility, the capability to transport military forces rapidly across intercontinental distances into an operational theater, lies at the hea...