Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found his first night with the Army trying. "We were assigned an unheated tent that sleeps about 20," he wrote. "I found a cot, unrolled my sleeping bag, took off my shoes and shivered for about five hours. You can't believe how cold it gets here." But the desert nights also bring unexpected pleasures. "The stars here are amazing," he wrote. "They seem close enough to touch, and there are zillions of them...
Entertaining the troops has been a tradition among show-business folks ever since the USO first took performers overseas to perform for G.I.s during World War II. But the eagerness to participate has rarely been greater or more broad-based than it has been since Operation Desert Storm began. Energized by lingering guilt about the way Vietnam soldiers were treated, celebrities of all political stripes have been rushing to show support for allied forces in the gulf. Nearly 100 actors, singers and athletes, ranging from Meryl Streep to Mike Tyson, got together to record Voices That Care, a pro-troop...
...couple of cans of nonalcoholic beer and practicing the steps to a new Marine-invented dance, the "Gas Mask Rag," the outside diversion is welcomed. "It is very important to keep up morale in the midst of such a lonely and isolating experience as a war in a desert," says Army Lieut. Colonel Robert Dawson, deputy director of the military broadcasting center in Los Angeles, which gathers the bulk of its programming from U.S. radio and TV stations. The armed forces usually pay a small fee for entertainment, but scores of producers and show-biz executives are donating their programs...
Serious doubts arise from the length of time it took the U.S. to deploy the 525,000-strong forces of Operation Desert Storm. In the event of a Soviet offensive in Europe, Pentagon strategy called for reinforcing NATO with six armored and infantry divisions airlifted or shipped from the U.S. in only 10 days, but it has taken nearly six months to complete the buildup in the gulf. That buildup has stripped American bases in the U.S. and overseas of troops and war machines. More than 70,000 U.S. Army soldiers and 40,000 tanks, artillery pieces and other equipment...
...Cheney wants to revive the case for other weapons whose demise seemed likely before the gulf war started. They include two costly gadgets that have played no role in Operation Desert Storm...