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Page 2 — Wednesday, November 2, 2022, The True Citizen
Foreign crisis after the Cold War
Gregory Fitzgerald Robinson spoke recently about his time
in Iraq.
SHELLIE SMITLEY
thetruecitizen.shellie@gmail.com
In honor of Veterans Day,
this is part 2 of a 3-part series
on the conflict in Iraq, contain
ing interviews with two local
men who served.
Christopher Jones and Greg
ory Fitzgerald Robinson are
two Burke County men who
served with the military in
Iraq.
Jones entered the U.S. Ma
rine Corps through the delayed
entry program in 1984, after
he graduated from T.W. Jo-
sey High School in Augusta.
Robinson, a Burke County
High School graduate, joined
the U.S. Army in 1997. Both
men ultimately were deployed
to Iraq.
OPERATION DESERT STORM
Prompted by Saddam Hus
sein’s invasion of Kuwait, the
U.S. invaded Iraq. Operation
Desert Shield transitioned to
Operation Desert Storm Janu
ary 17,1991 with the start of an
air war, marking the first major
foreign crisis for the U.S. after
the end of the Cold War. The
U.S. had the United Nations’
support in responding to Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait after Hus
sein repeatedly violated U.N.
resolutions.
The air bombardment was
directed at tactical targets such
as radar stations and strategic
targets such as infrastructure
and electricity. Overwhelming
the inadequate air defense of
the Iraqi army, the coalition
bombed key targets in and
around the capital of Baghdad.
The coalition suffered only 75
aircraft losses in over 100,000
sorties, 44 due to Iraqi action.
Over the next six weeks, Iraq’s
infrastructure and its military
were completely devastated
paving the way for a ground
invasion. One of the largest
air operations carried out since
the Vietnam War, Desert Storm
crippled the Iraqi ground forces
forcing them to either surren
der to the coalition forces or re
treat en masse. Forty-two days
later, on February 28,1991, the
operation ended.
Jones was attached to an
artillery unit. He remembers
the day that his unit began
bombing.
“We bombed them for two
days straight,” he said.
The mental strain was hard
for Jones to endure. The Iraqis
set up missiles around the U.S.
camps. Rumors of chemical
warfare spread like wildfire.
“They would just start bring
off missiles and bombs and
we were driving through land
mines,” Jones recalled. “It was
a mental
challenge at brst and then
you started seeing all of these
dead bodies so it got a little
more real.”
Jones lost his best friend
Phillip Jones during the war. “I
will never forget him,” he said.
Jones said he
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