To my friend Scott Collins

[freeandfun1]

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.

True, they never made it to Baghdad.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Overwhelming-Force-Hersh22may00.htm

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.

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.

 

[hylandrdet]

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!

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.

 

[freeandfun1]

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.

Dude, you are the dickweed that started the shit of "who are you, where are you from, what unit were you in, et al". So report me you little twerp! The more you write, the MORE I doubt you. Ambushed? LMFAO!! BULLSHIT!

 

[freeandfun1]

Persian Gulf War Casualties - Killed in Action and Non-Battle Deaths

I guess "Scott Collins" was in a super-secret fuel supply unit. So secret, he cannot be listed as a casualty of the Persian Gulf War.

 

[pennyville73]

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.

That's Hydra's way of saying: "Stop picking on me, or Im going to tell my Mommy!!" :baby:

 

[Said1]

I will report you to the department of homeland security if you continue to manipulate any more info from me.

Yes, freeandfun1 is an evil manipulative troll, capable of manipulating the most sensetive information out of unsuspecting posters - you kill me.

 

[musicman]

That's Hydra's way of saying: "Stop picking on me, or Im going to tell my Mommy!!" :baby:

I love this stuff! Freeandfun1 put a gun to the man's head and said, "Spill your guts or else!" I'm sure the Dept. of Homeland Security will be thrilled to devote their time and resources to this horseshit.

Maybe he meant to say, "Tom Collins". I'm sure he's seen a few of those killed.

 

[freeandfun1]

The jerk really pissed me off!

I deleted one post that I had put up where I had linked a photo (that is now famous) from GWI and went on a long diatribe. The photo is of some guys I knew from Charlie Company and that were on the same vehicle as Hutto. I know you all have seen the photo, it is one of the most "famous" from GWI. In the photo, there are two injured soldiers and a body bag. I've been told that the body bag contained Hutto's body, but I am not sure since there were a couple of guys killed in the same vehicle and I have also heard that the bag contained the remains of Alaniz. I'm just not sure and I didn't want to make a spectacle of their pain, so I decided to delete it.

Hutto was my gunner's best friend and we all played a lot of hearts and spades together whenever we could. We didn't learn about Hutto's death until after the ground war had ended and we were sitting around waiting on the wash racks so we could clean our vehicles and fly home. It was fucked up.

 

[freeandfun1]

Maybe he meant to say, "Tom Collins". I'm sure he's seen a few of those killed.

lmfao!

 

[CSM]

In all fairness:

3rd Battalion — 18th Field Artillery Regiment
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6 M109A6 Paladin
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Fort Sill, OK
Official Homepage
3rd Battalion — 18th Field Artillery Regiment



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The 18th Field Artillery was constituted on 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as Battery C, 18th Field Artillery, and organized at Fort Bliss, TX. The 18th Field Artillery was asssigned to the 3rd Division on 12 November 1917. After participation in World War I, the unit was inactivated 15 February 1922 at Camp Pike, AR.

The 18th was again activated 31 December 1922 at Fort Sill, OK. The 18th Field Artillery was relieved 24 March 1923 from assignment to the 3d Division and assigned to the 9th Division. It was then relieved from assignment to the 9th Division and assigned to the 6th Division in August 1927.

On 1 January 1930 the unit was reassigned from the 6th Division to the 3d Division; then to the 2d Cavalry Division on September 1932. The 18th was inactivated 1 January 1935 at Fort sill, OK. the 18th Field Artillery was relieved 1 July 1940 from assignment to the 2d Cavalry divison. Reorganized and redesignated 1 march 1943 as Battery C, 685th Field Artillery Battalion. It was redesignated 9 August 1943 as Battery C, 18th Field Artllery Battalion.

After World War II, the battalion inactivated 3 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, NJ. The 18th reactivated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, OK. It was reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Howitzer Battalion, 18th Artillery. The unit was redesignated in March 1964 as the 3d Battalion, 18th Field Artillery. Following valorous participation in Vietnam, the unit became the 3d Battalion, 18th field Artillery on 1 September 1971.

During Operation Desert Shield/Storm, 3-18 FA was attached to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which was under the control of XVIII Airborne Corps, and was among the lead elements in the ground offensive into Iraq. Although a general support artillery battalion, the 3d Battalion 18th Field Artillery was tasked with the difficult job of providing direct support. In May of 1991, the battalion returned to Fort Sill, OK, where it continues to serve as part of the IIId Armored Corps Artillery.

3-18 FA (Paladin) "Steel Professionals" started the year 2000 with a battery EXEVAL and battalion LFX. In June 2000, 3-18 FA excelled during a demanding EXEVAL, testing its ability to deploy, move, shoot, communicate and sustain.
Doing some research on casualties now.

 

[CSM]

The only Collins I can find who was killed in the first Persian Gulf War is a Specialist Melford Collins from Texas who was killed on the first day of the war when his vehicle ran over a land mine. I will check other resources I have as thoroughly as I can (just to be fair to everyone).

 

[UsaPride]

Persian Gulf War Casualties - Killed in Action and Non-Battle Deaths

I just found my husbands friend on that list. That sent a chill up my spine!!

 

[CSM]

I can find no further listing of a Scott Collins anywhere. I contacted the 3/18 FA and they do not show a Scott Collins as KIA during PW I.

I wont say that he did not exist or that it never happened...I will do some more research before making a judgement.

 

[CSM]

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

 

[hylandrdet]

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.

I know, CSM; just remember one thing; we are all trying to tell our stories without giving out too much personal info.. Can you respect that? You sound like a person who can.

 

[ENGINEER SGM]

Hylandrdet,
I was there when Scott T. Collins passed away as well and John Diaz was severely injured. Disregard the other trolls. Thanks for clearing it up with your post as well CSM. Message me if you need more info. I have the orders from this timeframe.
SGM