Thread by @RenoCavalry

#DesertStorm30 at EENT and 7k deep into Iraq, I am told to hold my Scts at Phase Line Nebraska, which is the 29 degree latitude line (yes, we’re using maps designed for flight and manually converting lat and long to MGRS on the move in combat). TF Cmd “Guidons, hold Nebraska” 1/5

My driver puts M3 in a hull dwn & I’m pissed that everywhere I am maneuvering seems to be on a map seam. “Inbound JAAT in 15 seconds, Scouts button up”. Ok. Thx for the 15 sec heads up. I quickly relay to platoon and I am about to witness the most amazing unleashing of power 2/5

Tick, tick, then the rounds & rockets of 2 bns of 155s and a bn of MLRS scream over my head inbound on Iraqi trps, BMPs, tanks and ADA that are 5km N of me. Good God. It’s sure easy to find the enemy now. Smk billows, detonations boom. “Blue air, south to north, time now”. 3/5

W the ADA suppressed, four F-16s scream over my head, seemingly just above my antennaes while loitering A-10s turn fierce w their attack runs. And now, 2 bns of Apaches, 36 AH-64s, nose down and pick up speed over my head as the zoomies peel off (@1st227avn & 1/3 Av) 4/5

I’m straight up in Apocalypse Now w the @1stCavalryDiv but 1991 style...I prep my M3 and Plt to move...to exploit the dazed enemy. I look down at my map and laugh. Guess our @usairforce and #Army pilots didn’t read the fucking map. Too bad For the Iraqis.