Alone, with no tanks and few heavy weapons, the fifty-three hundred marines were vulnerable to an attack by any of the five heavily armed Iraqi divisions waiting on the other side of the mines. Admire, had marched into Kuwait two days earlier. The twenty-one-year-old marine was tired, cramped, cold, and a little nervous about his unit’s exposed position.įulks’ marines, designated Task Force Grizzly, and Eroshevich’s unit, Task Force Taro, commanded by Colonel John H. Now Fulks was preparing to order a rapid and potentially dangerous effort to clear a way through the deadly obstacle belt.Īt about the same time ten miles to the east, Corporal Michael Eroshevich was hunkered down in a small, hastily dug hole on the edge of that same minefield, trying to stay unseen until night fell. After days of searching, however, his scouts still had not found a path through the mines. Marines a dozen miles inside of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait and had orders to move that night through the first of the two thick minefields the Iraqi army had planted just to the north. Although the ground campaign of Operation Desert Storm would not begin for more than twelve hours, Fulks had nearly twenty-seven hundred U.S.
Marines' Minefield Assault CloseĪs twilight approached on February 23, 1991, U.S.
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