Kathy Friedrich: The Sandbag Team
Kathy Friedrich had trained to be an ICU nurse with the Army. Yet when she first arrived in Saudi Arabia, she and the other nurses and doctors found themselves filling sandbags.
7 Apr 20251min
Jeff Hall: Ambulance Unit
Jeff Hall was an officer assigned to an ambulance company. His drivers had to be ready at a moment’s notice. Still, he found some of the units they were assigned to had put them on KP duty. What if ca...
7 Apr 20251min
Casey Mahon: Public Affairs Officer
Casey Mahon was coming off a 12-hour shift in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, when an explosion shook his building. It was a Patriot missile encountering a scud. That’s when he knew he was at war..
7 Apr 20251min
Eric Kerska: Good Hunting
Erick Kerska’s plane touched down in Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War was ramping up and this Army officer never forgot what the flight attendant told him when he exited the plane: "Good hunting."
7 Apr 20251min
Cal Portner: Trip to Spain
During Desert Storm, Cal Portner’s unit was asked to take its mobile photo equipment to Spain to set up a photo processing and interpretation center for a stateside unit.
7 Apr 20251min
Lisa Erickson: Jet Engine Mechanic
Lisa Erickson's dad joked that she didn’t even know how to put gas in her car. But the Air Force made her a jet engine mechanic and she learned. She was one of two females on the crew at Kadena Air Fo...
7 Apr 20251min
Theresa Dawson: Russian Linguist
Theresa Dawson was a Russian linguist in Berlin when war the US went to war with Iraq. Though her unit had the opportunity to deploy, they were still vital to the mission in Europe, where the Berlin w...
7 Apr 20251min
Lori Allert: Mobilized
Army nurse Lori Allert was told in summer 1990 that she may be deployed. Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces had invaded Kuwait. So she waited. And waited. Finally, after New Year’s, she got the call. She w...
7 Apr 20251min
