Lampasas man served as a tank gunner during 1990-91 Desert Storm invasion
LAMPASAS â Former U.S. Army tank gunner Keith Callis remembers heading into combat during the 1990-91 Desert Storm campaign to push Iraq out of Kuwait after the late Saddam Husseinâs forces invaded the neighboring Middle East country and defied worldwide calls to withdraw. âThe ground war starts and weâre rolling along blowing things up with the (M-1 Abrams) tanks, and these guys (Iraqis) are walking at us with their hands up. We just told them to keep walking,â Callis, a 56-year-old Lampasas resident and native of Corpus Christi, Texas, said. âWe went in as far ...
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