30 Years On, Veterans Recall the Desert Storm Air War
Mark Fox poses in a Hornet with the USS Saratoga in the background a few days after his battle with an Iraqi MiG. (Photo courtesy of Mark Fox)
21 Jan 2021 The War Horse | By Kelly Kennedy
During the first daytime airstrike of Desert Storm, Mark Fox flew out with about 30 airplanes that launched at once from an aircraft carrier, looking for the Scuds used to terrorize U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
It was a brilliantly blue day, sun glancing off sea and sand, and Fox flew alongside planes that would keep his F/A-18 Hornet and the bombs he carried safe.