Operation Desert Storm

Desert Storm Action: A desert storm began on January 15, 1991. It began in 19 hours after the deadline of the midnight on January 15 when all the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Air Force units attacked military targets with thousands of tons of bombs. Iraq. Saddam Hussein did not notice the threat of the alliance and paid a high price. (Pike) In Iraq and Iran for eight years before 1990, Iraq was subjected to a great financial pressure because Iran had been carrying out the war for 8 years. The war began on September 22, 1980 when the Iraqi army invaded Iran completely.

Desert Storm Strategy (Iraq). Pioneers made a total of 533 sorties, and it became famous for desert storm operations to monitor and determine the accuracy of 16-inch battleship artillery; the Iraqi troops are afraid to see the vanguard I learned that it is. In the widely reported events together, the Iraqi soldiers actually surrendered to the pioneers and they knew that a battleship battleship was imminent. Fund. The Subsidy Committee (H. Report 107-732) agreed to provide a total of $ 16 million to support the Marines for pioneer upgrades. This includes $ 7 million in research, development, testing and evaluation, naval funds, and $ 9 million from weapons procurement and maritime funds. In addition, the participants said that "these funds and necessary additional funds can only be used to upgrade Pioneer's drones to support Marines."

During the Persian Gulf War between 1990 and 1991, the Maritime Task Force established a desert shield strategy and then released Kuwait during the operational desert storm operations. The Marines participated in the Somali battle strategy (1992-1995) during the resumption of the desired strategy, the recovery of hope II and the joint shield to provide humanitarian relief. In 1997, the Marine Corps participated in a silver rescue effort to evacuate US citizens from the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania. Following the September 11, 2001 attack, President Bush announced a worldwide war with terrorism. The objective of the world war on terrorism is to "defeat al Qaeda, other terrorist organizations, and any country that supports or protects terrorists." Since that time, the Marines have worked globally with other military forces to support this task globally.