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True, they never made it to Baghdad.hylandrdet said:Oh by the way, the Republican Guard never made it to
Baghdad, because the armored divisions of Seventh Corp, out of Frankfurt, cut them off at the valleys. You were fighting insurgents, not the republican guard.
Perhaps you were in the theater of operations and PERHAPS there really was a Scott Collins (although every search I have made for casualties related to GWI do not list him ANYWHERE), but it is obvious you have added to "enrich" the story.On the morning of March 2nd, a day before the Iraqis and the Allied coalition were scheduled to begin formal peace talks, General Barry McCaffrey reported that, despite the ceasefire, his division had suddenly come under attack from a retreating Republican Guard tank division off Highway 8 west of Basra, near the Rumaila oil field. The Iraqis were driving toward a causeway over Lake Hammar, one of five exit routes from the Euphrates River Valley to the safety of Baghdad. Overriding a warning from the division operations officer, McCaffrey ordered an assault in force an all-out attack. His decision stunned some officers in the Allied command structure in Saudi Arabia, and provoked unease in Washington. Apache attack helicopters, Bradley fighting vehicles, and artillery units from the 24th Division pummeled the five-mile-long Iraqi column for hours, destroying some seven hundred Iraqi tanks, armored cars, and trucks. McCaffrey later described the carnage as one of the most astounding scenes of destruction I have ever participated in. There were no serious American combat casualties.
freeandfun1 said:I was in an M901 Improved TOW Vehicle (ITV) which is an Infantry Anti-Armor vehicle and I was a Sergeant/E5 squad leader assigned to 2nd Section, 2nd Squad (vehicle number E24), 2nd Platoon, Echo Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, 18th Airborne Corps. Which was a rapid deployment unit for the Middle East and therefore, I deployed to Saudi Arabia in mid August 1990, just a few days after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
During the ground war, I was part of Task Force 4-64 and took part in the raids that captured both Jalibah and Tallil airbases and I was in the Battle of Rumalia which occurred after the cease fire was called when we encountered an Iraqi Republican Guard unit that was trying to retreat toward Baghdad. A friend of mine, John Hutto, that was killed in action during our raid on Jalibah, so don't go trying giving me any shit you fake ass mother fucker!
If you were in a combat zone, YOU would not have accompanied his body back to Turkey. His body would have been transferred to a Graves Registration Unit and THEY would have processed his body and shipped it back to the USA. Once he was taken from the battlefield or place of death, YOU would have had NOTHING to do with his remains.
You are so full of shit I can smell you from here!
hylandrdet said:Dude, I was a 76Y, unit supply clerk (Quartermaster), aka supplier of ammunition, supplier of barracks, and in charge of GRAVES REGISTRATION. Our supply convoy was ambushed. HIS FUEL TRUCK, WHICH QUALIFIES AS SUPPLY, WAS HIT BY AND INSURGENT(by the way, insurgent is MY definition of the attacker). I processed his body because I was doing my JOB! Are you happy now? Are you finished???
Now stop trying to gather information on my real ID; I will report you to the department of homeland security if you continue to manipulate any more info from me.
Now stop trying to gather information on my real ID; I will report you to the department of homeland security if you continue to manipulate any more info from me.
hylandrdet said:I will report you to the department of homeland security if you continue to manipulate any more info from me.
pennyville73 said:That's Hydra's way of saying: "Stop picking on me, or Im going to tell my Mommy!!" :baby:
musicman said:Maybe he meant to say, "Tom Collins". I'm sure he's seen a few of those killed.
lmfao!
I just found my husbands friend on that list. That sent a chill up my spine!!freeandfun1 said:
CSM said:I did find a listing for a Scott T Collins, but it was not related to any other information other than listed as KIA during the first Gulf War. I have not seen that name anywhere else, but the list I had access to came from DoD. Based on that, it is very possible that the original story is true.
hylandrdet said:GOD bless you CSM. I thank you for your efforts to set the record straight. I apologize for announcing that I'd voted for Kerry; had I not done so, I wouldn't been labeled a liberal, and my service record would had not been questioned. I'm sorry to put you through so much trouble. Thank you.
CSM said:Don't thank me. I believe in presenting the facts; when something sounds not quite right I do my damndest to get it right. The military is one thing I know quite a lot about.
