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That was 30 years ago today as his Marine Corps division launched the ground assault into Kuwait. Military commanders had predicted heavy casualties as U.S. troops were about to invade the tiny, oil-rich country as part of a United Nations-led coalition. The allied forces intended to free Kuwait from the grip of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who had invaded his neighboring county in August 1990. Despite initial mortar fire, rife fire exchange, minefields, barbed wire, deep defensive trenches and a few tank battles elsewhere, Archer and the great majority who served in the air war and then the quick ground war survived. ....
Print In February 1941 the 2nd Marine Division was activated at a parade and review at at Camp Elliott, the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. During World War II some 60,000 Marines with the 2nd Division saw action in the Pacific. From The San Diego Union, Sunday, February 2, 1941: Marines Display War Equipment First Complete Division Formed Masses of marching, helmeted men; trucks, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, rumbling tanks, light machine-guns, slim French 75s, marines with fixed bayonets on their Springfields, marines carrying the new Garand rifles. Such was the first parade of the Second Marine Division, which passed in review at the Marine base on Barnett Ave. yesterday, a few minutes after the orders were read creating a complete marine division for the first time in the corps’ 165 years of existence. Eight thousand officers and men swung into line on the parade ground as the new streamlined division; eventually to number 10,000, was created, with ....