First Gulf War - Veterans Voices

Shelby Setnikar in her home in Woodbury.

First Gulf War:
Shelby Setnikar

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!”

First Gulf War:
Shelby Setnikar: Two Bottles of Evian

Shelby Setnikar, Biwabik, set out on a caravan through the Saudi
desert en route to Baghdad with the Army’s Third Infantry
Division. They slept in their vehicles, ate MRE’s and were given
two bottles of Evian water a day.

First Gulf War:
Paul Lesch: In the Engine Room

Paul Lesch’s day aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt started,
officially, at 7 am. But there was constant maintenance to be done
in the nuclear reaction space. Then there were late-night drills. He
was lucky to get three hours of sleep, let alone see the sun.

First Gulf War:
Paul Lesch: The Newbie

Paul Lesch was just a newbie nuclear machinist mate when he was
helicoptered to the USS Theodore Roosevelt at the start of the First
Gulf War. Even for someone in training, there was no downtime
aboard the aircraft carrier that flew bombing missions to Iraq
around the clock.

Lori Allert in Anoka at the Anoka American Legion

First Gulf War:
Lori Allert: The Army Hospital at Landstuhl

Lori Allert was stationed at the Army hospital at Landstuhl in
Germany. There, the nurse helped stabilize US military troops
wounded in the First Gulf War before their trip to stateside
hospitals.

First Gulf War:
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 was being mobilized.

Episodes

First Gulf War:Shelby Setnikar

First Gulf War:Shelby Setnikar: Two Bottles of Evian

First Gulf War:Paul Lesch: In the Engine Room

First Gulf War:Paul Lesch: The Newbie

First Gulf War:Lori Allert: The Army Hospital at Landstuhl

First Gulf War:Lori Allert: Mobilized