War Stories
“ OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM SIT REP #4 Tactical Assembly Area (TAA) Ripper, Kuwait Tuesday, 11 March 2003 1300 Hours Local TAA Ripper is a dusty, dun-colored, tent camp parked on a barren, flat, windblown desert plain, lacking both vegetation and recognizable terrain features. It is scorching hot and the heat rises in waves off the desert floor. Behind every moving tank, armored vehicle, or truck, a plume of talcum-like dust rises and hangs in the air. Without a GPS receiver, i...t’s impossible to know where you are or where you are going.
Canvas cities like this one are spread over the desert in northern Kuwait—“up close and personal to the Iraqi border,” as a Marine gunny puts it. Each one of these Tactical Assembly Areas is “home away from home” for a U.S. or British ground combat unit. From the air they all look about the same: row upon row of large tents, surrounded by a ten-foot-high wall of earth topped with razor wire. This one is the temporary home of the fabled 7th Marine Regiment—one of three Regimental Combat Teams in the 1st Marine Division, the major ground component of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (known simply as I-MEF).MoreLess
Canvas cities like this one are spread over the desert in northern Kuwait—“up close and personal to the Iraqi border,” as a Marine gunny puts it. Each one of these Tactical Assembly Areas is “home away from home” for a U.S. or British ground combat unit. From the air they all look about the same: row upon row of large tents, surrounded by a ten-foot-high wall of earth topped with razor wire. This one is the temporary home of the fabled 7th Marine Regiment—one of three Regimental Combat Teams in the 1st Marine Division, the major ground component of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (known simply as I-MEF).MoreLess
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