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Veteran recalls build up before Desert Storm operations


Veteran recalls build up before Desert Storm operations
Examiner-Enterprise
5/15/2021
Joe Todd
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U.S. Army launch Rocket System fires rockets into Iraq from Saudi Arabian Desert, Feb. 16, 1991, during Operation Desert Storm. Operated by B Battery, 6th field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division.
This is the second installment of an interview that historian Joe Todd did with Lt. Col. Mark Holt (retired) on April 28, 2021, in Tulsa. The interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
(The interview picks up with Holt discussing his training education.)
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Todd: When were you commissioned?
Holt: 1977, ROTC, Oklahoma State University. I took a position as a training officer in an Army Reserve Battalion in Stillwater that did Infantry Basic and AIT. I was in a small group of 12 guys, and eight of them were drill sergeants. We had a drill sergeant, a supply sergeant, an ....

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After 32 Years and 11,000 Flight Hours, A MH-60G Helicopter Finds Peace


The MH-60G Pave Hawk with tail number 009 flew for the last time in early May.
A special MH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter and one of the oldest and most famous helicopters in the Air Force’s inventory has officially retired.
A 32-years-old helicopter with more than 11,000 flight hours and dozens of combat deployments, the MH-60G Pave Hawk with tail number 009 flew for the last time in early May.
Its final flight was broken down into two phases. During the first phase, Captain Tanner Bennett, from the 66
th Rescue Squadron, flew the chopper from Nellis Air Force Base, in Nevada, to Pensacola Naval Air Station, in Florida. Then, for the second phase, Major General Chad P. Franks, the commander of the 15 ....

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