Operation Desert Storm, 30 years

I was in Pensacola flying T-34s at the time. All my ground pounder buddies were over there as young Platoon Commanders though.

There is town in Florida named Bagdad. Yes, they misspelled it.

The joke among the students at the time was that when inevitably asked, “What did you do in the war?” we could all proudly claim that we were deployed to the Gulf (of Mexico) and flew many missions over Bagdad (Florida).

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