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Desert Storm Anniversary: Veteran Recalls American Triumph
January 18, 2023
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Army News Service issued the following news:

By Joe Lacdan, Army News Service

In the summer of 1990, then-Staff Sgt. Jim Gill stood in a hotel lobby and listened to President George H.W. Bush announce on television that the U.S. would send troops to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control and prevent a possible invasion of Saudi Arabia.

Gill, a 25-year old infantry Soldier at the time, had just flown in to report to his new assign . . .

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