Veterans' Voices: First Gulf War

Lisa Erickson, a jet engine mechanic at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, specialized in the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine that went in the Air Force's F-15 and F-16 planes. Though not directly in the Gulf War, Erickson and her crew worked long hours prepping engines to send to the Gulf and repairing the sand-clogged engines that returned from there. [Read Transcript...]

Shelby Setnikar, a pharmacist tech with the Army’s Third Infantry Division, came off guard duty to take a nap in the large barracks tent when someone burst in shouting, "Gas! Gas! Gas!" [Read Transcript...]

Larry Liiljenquist, stationed on the USS Blue Ridge, looked forward to mail call. There were letters from family and packages from a Persian Gulf support group back home with, among other things, the latest (now a month old) copy of the local paper. [Read Transcript...]

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. [Read Transcript...]