![]() ![]() “At his age, I was over in the Gulf, getting ready to fight a war.” Not a great start “He wants to go in the Marines, he’s in the process of signing up for the Marines right now. It’s kind of a weird feeling,” Hallock said. But the 30-year anniversary of the battle, which brought an end to the first Gulf War, has their thoughts returning to the sands of the desert and the dangers of war. “We’re more worried about, ‘Are we going to have something going on this weekend? Are we going to have a party?’ “īoth men later found jobs with the Spokane Police Department. “We’re in college,” said Meidl, who’s served as Spokane’s chief of police since September 2016. That included Hallock, an Olympia native enrolled at Washington State University in Pullman, and another reservist, 19-year-old Craig Meidl. The decision to deploy Marine reservists in the push to Kuwait City meant that a company headquartered in Yakima was sent into the desert. ![]() “I found it interesting that many of them were already being covered up by the sand,” he said. Some people said that it was wrong to attack just because we expected to be attacked, others say that Hussein needed to go and make sure that we and others are made safer.ABOVE: After the four-day battle, Brad Hallock and his company returned to the area where they’d been in conflict to see husks of destroyed Soviet tanks driven by the Iraqi soldiers. This decision to invade Iraq has been debated many times over about whether we should have gone. When the troops arrived and had toppled the government, they found that in fact, Hussein had no WMDs and in fact was not as close to being able to produce them as was let on. Bush decides to invade and overthrow the Hussein controlled Iraqi government. Intelligence reports from multiple sources say that Iraq is building WMDs.ĥ. Bush) delivers his "Axis of Evil" speech which names three nations that are likely to harbor terrorists and give them WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction).Ĥ. Bush (not his father, President George H.W. ![]() As a result of 911, the United States took a much stronger stance and began a war on terrorism.ģ. So I will answer in a way that hopefully will be most helpful.ġ. It does kind of leave one with many questions the way that was put. ![]()
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