...Baghdad, with air assaults, then sending troops into southern Iraq. At Camp Coyote, a Marine staging area in the Kuwaiti desert, the soldiers of the 319th Transportation Company, an Army Reserve unit based in Augusta, spent two days and two...
...Marine camp set up about 35 miles from the Iraq border, and began pre-positioning fuel at bladder farms in the Kuwaiti desert. The United States launched the war March 20. During the first day and night of combat, the Iraqis fired missiles...
...They are initially based at Camp Arifjan. MARCH 8: The 319th moves to Camp Coyote, a Marine base in the northern Kuwaiti desert. The unit is assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, using its tanker trucks to haul bulk fuel for a fighting...
...Augusta-based 319th Transportation Co., which was originally supposed to return in May, is still stuck in the Kuwaiti desert - and could be for months more to come. The hardship is just as difficult on the home front. All military families...
...against the invaders." - A man in civilian clothes drove a pickup truck into soldiers standing outside a store at a Kuwaiti desert base, injuring about six people. - Indonesians held their biggest demonstration against the Iraq war to date and...
...their trucks and their lives. The soldiers and the Marines have made strange bedfellows at the camp in the northern Kuwaiti desert during the past week and a half. While their interaction has been cordial, the difference in the mind-sets of...
...watched Mr. Bush on television from her home in south Augusta, her husband, Capt. Mohandas Martin, was in the Kuwaiti desert, commanding the Army Reserve's 319th Transportation Company, waiting for war to start. Her children, Olivia...
IN THE KUWAITI DESERT -- British forces will be ready to go to war in Iraq within days...Gulf, Jackson said during a visit to British troops massing in the Kuwaiti desert. "I would have thought four or five days would pretty much complete...
...gonna be fine," said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Helmick, of Richmond, Va., who leads an army transportation battalion that helps truck tons of supplies to troops stationed in the Kuwaiti desert. "Never underestimate these soldiers," he said.
IN THE KUWAITI DESERT -- Bradley Fighting Vehicles rumble across the desert, disgorging...successful march into Baghdad. At a mock village erected in the Kuwaiti desert, U.S. forces are fast at work preparing for every fathomable...