20 years ago tonight..
 

...was the start of Gulf War 1. (actual date was 17th Jan, but the day was a Sunday)

I remember it vividly - fell asleep in front of the TV only to be woken by the sound of bombs. (on the news, that is).

I would have been 3! Obviously don't remember anything about it, but, as always, feel for the people that had to go over there. Quite lucky to have been born in this country when you think about it, totally safe and secure at that age. Plenty of other kids around the world not as fortunate.

Yeah, remember it.

I was 22 and pretty much exactly midway through the 6yr 11 month (not quite 'the 7 year itch', ha!) relationship my bird of the time.

The Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991

I was 16 ish :)

Jeez - I must be getting old. I thought it was last Tuesday

I remember a mate of mine not very bright saying "thats us ****ed now we are going to be transcript" of war daft tw@t

Best part was sky news in your face tv.

Was better than playing DOOM.

Yes, I remember it well. I was in the RN at the time and headed out to patrol the western med. :(

I wasnt old enough to fall asleep in front telly (26) , i was told america had let rip the morning after , at the time i thought , right on , just shows how your opinion is skewed by the BBC

I had a tv and pc im my room dpb ffs how old are you ? 26 ?

I was on the Drilling rig Gorilla 4 off Great Yarmouth, watching it all on sky news, best bit was the news man saying that a cruise missile had just went down the main street in bagdad and turned left and blew up Sadams house lol

Sky disc history 522 has it on now

I remember that forgot the USA ship that launched it
?

Was it kitty hawk?

lol surrounded by yanks as well I bet! :lol1:

I remember standing in a fish and chip shop being pished as a fart when it came on the news.

Ofcourse that was when I could take a bloody good bucket and never have hangovers. :)

:lol:

yea yanks all around me :eek:

I remember that missile news item. Wasn't there footage of it zooming by said reporter in the built up area, yawing this way and that, I care to remember? It was mental.

yea it was, must see if it on u tube

I remember it as I was on guard duty at the radar base in Episkopi when the first sortie from Rhiyad took off.

And I think you have got your dates wrong! it all kicked off on Wednesday 16th at 23:30 GMT.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2754103.stm

I could've sworn it was a Sunday night.
That'll be Wikipedia for you!

I was doing an instructional tour on the Tornado at the time so was not involved directly. We did have a lot of extra duties because of the others who went off to war.

Les

We also had to do round the clock stints at RAF Akrotiri loading VC10s with pallets of 6 x 1000 lb bombs :D They were disgusting as they were all coverd in some green antistatic slime. Didin't stop us leaving messages to Sadaam on them though :D

Hope they got through!

Les :D

Same here.

Was sat with my sister playing cards with the TV on in the background.

Remember watching it it saying "Wow, look at that"

"Stormin Norman!"