The Operation DESERT STORM ground campaign began on 24 February 1991 after thirty eight days of air attacks on targets in Iraq and Kuwait. GEN Schwarzkopf, with a coalition of 31 nations, unleashed all out attacks against Iraqi forces along the coalition line to force Iraq out of Kuwait. The victory proved the soundness of the Army’s Air Land Battle doctrine and justified the Army’s investment in new military hardware in the 1980s known as the “Big Five.” Operation Desert Storm ushered in "The F

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Today we journey to one of more than a dozen large Desert Warfare Training Camps that were set up under the direction of General Patton during World War Two. These camps were designed to train over one million U.S. Army soldiers in the art and hardships of desert warfare before being shipped to North Africa to fight and defeat German and Italian forces occupying that area. Camp Bouse was established as a top-secret camp where a new U.S. wonder weapon was tested and readied for our entry into the

Today we take a hike out across the desert in and near Camp Granite Mountain located in the Mojave desert in California. Camp Granite Mountain was a large desert warfare training camp used to train U.S. soldiers in the art of desert warfare before being sent to North Africa to fight both the Italian and German military forces. In this video, I hike in search of target practice areas that should be near the foot of the mountain. I then hoof it to the actual WW2 camp and then struggle to make it b