#DesertStorm30 we killed the owner of this book of poems. He was a conscript in the Iraqi 52nd ID. He was dismount fighting alongside his BMP & we killed him and his terrified plt w 25mm and coax. His Plt Ldr initially lived, but his leg was severed above the knee....1/6 He dismounted, in shock, and surrendered, w his leg still in his BMP. He tried to give me his watch in return for treating his wounds. We put a tourniquet on him, I put his watch in his pocket, did some basic first aid on others & kept rolling. Zone recon waits for no one 2/6

#DesertStorm30 EENT 25k into Iraq & 1st obstacle belt properly covered by direct & adjusted indirect fires. It’s a 2-way fight. HHC-26 has thrown track in an obstacle/fire trench. Driver outside w tanker bar and 2 Scts dismount w M-60 MG & fire at origin of inbound tracers 1/4 I see SPC L run back up the ramp, I assume to get more 7.62 for the M-60. But he does not re-emerge. Rounds whip past us and indirect being adjusted. I tell my gnr to look for their Fwd Obsvr so we can kill him & turn off the indirect. I see SGT H, the BC, out of the turret 2/4

#DesertStorm30 15k into Iraq. Battlefield thickens & Tanks moved to the front of the TF. My six M3 r now screening the W flank of @1stCav2bct, moving and echeloned in 3 sects of two. Boom!! Massive explosion, smoke and fire 350m to my E. M1A1 from D Co has hit an AT mine 1/5 “Holy shit” The front left #1 skirt is blown apart and the comp idler arm is blown off the hull to the desert floor. 4 mins..I hear the D XO on TF Cmd “Delta One Three is a mobility kill. Driver and TC both WIA but OK. Estimate 6-8 hours till back up”. 2/5

#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

#DesertStorm30 OTD. First direct fire combat. Sct Plt, TF 1-32 AR Bandits @1stCav2bct Iraqi/KSA border berm, N of Hafr al Batin. 0320, waiting in ambush position since 2300. Split Plt, w 3 M3s per sect spread 1200m apart W to E oriented N into Iraq. Hull down embedded in berm 1/8 Turret able to scan 10-2, but neg contact for hours, despite suspicion Iraqi engineers will return at night & close US berm breaches & re-lay mines. We created breaches 3x before and left. Never bothered them. Now we are suckering them, hoping they show up per their pattern 2/8