I still remember years ago a tv program was interrupted with "breaking news". Apparently a celebrity had been arrested! I think it was Justine Beaver, don't remember, I was just like wtf?! This is considered breaking news?!?!
I think Gary Shepard in Baghdad was a bit overwhelmed as he didn't answer any questions once he started describing what he saw. Sounded like he couldn't stop :D
@@benconway9010 If I recall correctly, new episodes aired at like 7 pm and the second half of The Best of Both Worlds was about to begin when the news cut in and showed live footage of predawn bombardment of Baghdad. Episodes were routinely rerun during the week so...
When Peter Jennings was no longer on WNT, I stopped watching news as religiously as I did before. Cable News of all networks made me stop completely. He’s matter-of-fact, calm, and does no speculating. This is television journalism.
I was there....launched every plane we had loaded! I'm 6'3 at the time around 225lbs, when I made it home I had lost 20 pound and looked like I had a disease. That was what 29 years ago?
@@34ey5drift8 - same here... I'm a disabled vet with 18 years of service, yet I have not had a running car in 5 years. I live in a super small remote country town and even a Walmart is 45 minutes away and the only thing we have here is one gas station. so no food, no rides and no luck. at least I would have been able to use a couple bar of gold to get a cheap car and get food. during the first gulf war the King of Saudi arabia wanted to give each soldier $10,000. but the US declined saying it would mean the US troops would have been mercinaries. all of use said we were fine with being called that for the money lol
"The sound of distant thunderous explosions yet no apparent bombs falling on Baghdad" It's at this point that you realize just how radically different the F-117s bombing runs were from previous ones.
@@jacklambert1521 Pre-Desert Storm bombing runs had a lot more spectacle to them. You tended to not only see the planes and falling bombs but also hear them.
@@jacklambert1521 The F-117s were able to fly much higher from the ground and only needed to drop one bomb to hit their targets. Also, the attacks happened at night.
I was always amazed that there were news reporters in Baghdad who were allowed to keep reporting. They were basically acting as spotters for the military.
Nope, they were in a hotel. They had no communication with the military. Peter Jennings was famous or infamous for saying he would not interfere if a US convoy was about to be ambushed, he'd just cover it.
Lol taking the media hostage is never a smart idea. That is a huge breach of war law on par with gas . Plus who knows Saddam could of either thought that they had a chance and it would of been reported to Americans that Iraq was doing well. Or thought that if they seen Baghdad getting bombed the american public would of had a change of heart. They was watching this report as it was happening (the Iraq leaders) and was actually confused . As the attack hadent actually started at this time and the anti air had opened for no reason. And they was wondering wtf there guys was shooting at. The first attacks were carried out by bombers that they had no chance of knowing was up there until the bombs hit.
I hate news today.... .. news with Peter Jennings is.. We know something is going on we dont know what is going on but lets go to the source of the activity.. Now its all. we know something is going on, we dont know what;s going on, let's go to our panel of people who also have no idea on what is going on but think their opinion matters.
That can be blamed on corporations and capitalism getting involved with news broadcast stations by owning the networks as a whole or as a majority owner.
I was a long haul trucker (after retiring from the US nuclear submarine Navy) listening to the news on the radio. When the war began, I pulled off into a safe place and watched the coverage all night long. Needless to say, my load was late. (I had a, uh, err .... flat tire ... yeah, that's the ticket)
I’m gonna call highly bullshit on that statement. If your “load” was anything nuclear or uranium then you did not sit there and watch the broadcast. Your higher ups would have been up your ass especially with war breaking out. So I’m gonna call bullshit on that, sorry had to debunk your statement
The media sensationalism during this was astounding. I was 20 when this happened and I distinctly remember frequent frenzied discussion of "another Vietnam" and "mired" and "reinstitute the draft." The war lasted four fucking days.
To be fair no one realized that the Iraqi army was as shitty as it turned out to be, especially with the lack of armor compared to the amount of infantry
@@jackl4151 That's the point. It seems, that the more advanced the army, the more effective the modern US-Forces are. Can't fight against "Partisan tactics" the same way you fight organized military.
Gary: "well ......uhhh ...... the lights are .... Uhhhh on and the uhhhhhh .. as far as the eye can uhhhhb ... see .... And uhhhhhh .... Their seems to be uhhhhhh...... Anti-aircraft uhhhhh fire. Cashier: "Sir this is a Wendy's"
I remember watching these broadcasts. I was 4 years old then and getting brought into the living room and set down in front of the TV and being explained what was going on. I miss Peter Jennings :/ he was what news broadcasting is supposed to be to me.
I was in the 7th grade when Desert Storm happened. And I agree about Peter Jennings because I was once a journalism student in high school and the news of his death from Lung Cancer in 2005 took me by surprise.
I was in a hole in the ground at FOB Bastonge on the Saudi/Iraq border. Me: *snore Private Snuffy: "Hey, wake up. What's a Tomohawk? We just launched a bunch of them." Me: FFUUUUUUUUUU! *Leaps out of hole, stumbles in sleeping bag*
It wasn't just the US, it was a coalition of 39 countries. The countries were Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. I would most certainly say they had a problem.
Did anyone notice the inaccuracies of their maps? The Baghdad city map has the Iraqi flag and "Baghdad" together at the top, and "IRAQ" in the middle of the city (seemingly reversed). And the one at 2:08 has Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in the same colour and labelled simply as Israel.
I remember that night very well. I was watching this ABC News broadcast and told my mother to turn on the TV because there was something going on in Baghdad. She didn't believe it, and thought there wouldn't be a war. My cousin was over there, so my family was watching the news coverage very intently. I didn't go to bed that night until well after 1am.
I knew the navy was engaged, but I didn’t realize it was half the damn fleet of super carriers. I counted 11 total in the fleet at that time (which I hope is the right count)
I remember that night very well! I was watching ABC World News when they reported this. My cousin was in Saudi Arabia at the time. I ran into the kitchen and told my mother to turn on the news, that something was happening in Baghdad.
Really shows the power of technology when you have the 3rd largest army, well seasoned troops, and the best export equipment available in the world but still get into one of the world's most lopsided wars.
Thanos Car I don’t reckon he had nukes at all but desert storm was the invasion not to remove saddam but to take back Kuwait after the unlawful invasion.
@Thanos Car He was "working on nukes" as well as other wmds, and he had chemical weapons. They were almost all sent to Syria in the run-up to the later Iraq War for safe keeping. Saddam had WMDs when we said he did. Later, when the war started, he had already sent most of them to Syria since they wouldn't have been effective against us and he did not want President Bush to be proven right.
@@bt5875 Saddams top Air Force general, and 2nd in command of the Iraqi military, General Georges Sada stated it numerous times in interviews. And he explained it, as well as many other things in his fascinating autobiography. General Georges Sada was/is an honorable man and officer. One of the very few or perhaps the only honorable man in the upper Iraqi echelon. He is known as "the only man who ever told Saddam 'no', and lived." Saddam deeply respected him because he was utterly competent, a rare trait amongst the fearful yes men who surrounded the evil tyrant. And he was utterly unpolitical. He only cared about military matters. The book is fascinating, and I don't normally like autobiographies or biographies. But I still loved it. His personal stories of Saddam from before he became a dictator were interesting too. This general, after the war, spoke with the pilots who flew much of the WMD program to Syria, his men, who would absolutely not have lied to him. And he was informed that every one of the flights was packed with WMDs. Nothing else. And that's on top of the night time truck convoys into Syria that undoubtedly carried the less important stuff, or things that couldn't be transported by plane. The Baath Party of Syria (Assads party) is the sister party of the Baath Party of Iraq. Started by same group of people, with the same goals and principles (or rather lack thereof), back in the 50s. Saddam was one of their punk street enforcers back then. Georges Sada and his wife used to pick up Saddams wife as a courtesy, and carry her to and from her school teacher job in the 60s, since Saddam was a nobody then and didn't have a car, and Sada did. Fascinating stories!!
@@williamescolantejr5871 different commands different recall times is the way it was in the early nineties. My command way low priority so it had a 24he recall time.
I remember back in 1/17/91 when i watch the coverage on FEN by the live board cast from ARM FORCES RADIO AND TELEVISION here in the Philippines and they transfer to CNN after ABC. What a day to remember
I was commo support for 529th Ordinance CO. Ammo DS at CSA 32 Log base Echo during the war. We were too busy to be scared. 4 by 4 mile supermarket of ammo from 9mm to MLRS missiles and 155 rounds and Hellfires. We had RT 46s and 47s and the good ol' PRC 77s. The intranets were in their infancy and we were lucky to get a phone call home with an 8 second delay! My hats off to the warfighters who kicked ass there and ended the cold war after. Hooah!! Would do it again!!
They were still using prick 77s then? Wow. I remember learning in training (I never saw action) nobody wanted to be radio operator because radio was always right next to the CO and the enemy knew that so they aimed near that big fuc#$+g antenna!
Gary in Baghdad seems like he couldn't hear from his earpiece. He just kept rambling since part 1 like a lone radio DJ doing a remote with his cell phone.
Wow, I remember watching this. I'd always wondered what would happen if some big news event broke while the evening news was running. It was interesting seeing them switch to Special Report mode for the benefit of affiliates that weren't currently showing the news.
January 1991, I was 5 years old. Barely recall the events, if any at all. Both parents were Air Force; my dad was part of Desert Shield (the logistics build-up to Desert Storm). I can't remember if my mother was part of the operation as well, but I don't think so.
My fiance and I were sitting in front of the tv, along with her brother, when this special report came on and the war started. I saw tears in his eyes. It was three nights before our wedding and honeymoon night. We spent our honeymoon night in a hotel in Philadelphia. The next morning our flight to Florida had only 15 people on the plane. They said everyone was worried about terrorism.
6120mcghee hahahha. i was 7 in Baghdad. i remember i was a sleep then woke up the house shaking. so many bombs then we had a blackout. the city used to be beautiful but now nothing but garbage
@Jimmy AMEN TO THAT BRO>!!! I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND JOINED THE NAVY AND NEXT THING IM ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF A CARRIER AS A FIREMAN THAT WAS FEB. 1971 !!
I'm 35 now I can remember this on tv when I was a small child it was in night vision black and green I remember a long line of tanks all shooting shells at the same time
Dad was working in Imam University in Riyadh while these were happening. He remembers the missiles that sent shockwaves as they exploded. The doors were shaking and they feared that fragments from the missile were going to fall on them. He especially remembers the sounds of the air raid sirens and the radio that was working 24/7. The gas masks that they wore every time they went out to buy their essentials.
I know this is old but watch the Operations Room video about it. They show the full scale of what happened in those beginning hours of the Gulf War if you're interested.
I was supposed to conduct a surveillance of a cleaning crew, and remember this well, I borrowed a tv from evidence, and would sneek a peek at the news while they moved position, I had a Son over there, was praying for his safety.
I was a jarhead on the Kuwait border when this kicked off. Was over there since the previous August. I was so done with waiting. Still didn’t get to go home until April. Not sure why this just showed up in my feed.
Was with the 1st Armored Division on the border, right before we charged over the berms. I wondered how the news reported some of this back then. Gives me the shakes for some reason.
To me, the Gulf War was the greatest war in US history and the capstone of an era. So efficient, so decsive and precise and competent the attack appeared and really was, especially for military standards. And the goal? The goal was noble, freeing a country. We trashed Saddams Army, got Kuwait back, and then left. All the experience, the technology, the beating of the soviets culminated into this one great war.
Just a couple of points I really need to point out. 1. The U.S were not the only ones fighting in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the U.K, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt along with a Coalition which included the following countries in some form or another: Afghan mujahideen, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Honduras. Hungary, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland. Portugal, Qatar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. 2. U.S troops are still stationed in Kuwait, so no, you didn't just leave. (Not that I'm complaining that they are still there as they, along with the British are part of the reason Saddam didn't cross over the border the two credible times he threatened to cross over the border while I lived there, although I will say that the U.S military screwing up the clearing of minefields in Southern Kuwait nearly killed myself and 20-30 other children when we were brought to the area camping after the U.S military said the area was safe....) 3. Whilst the U.S may have been the lead in the UN Coalition, there are people who lived through the occupation of Kuwait feel that the real saviour of Kuwait is Margret Thatcher who ensured that the British Government at the time would stand by a long standing treaty between the U.K and Kuwait.
I'll never forget this... I was there.....Turned 21 in Iraq....A country you cannot drink alcohol in..So much for my 21st birthday...... 2nd Battalion 3rd Air Defense Artillery.....I also missed the superbowl... Damn Saddam! At least we kicked his ass outta there in 100 hrs.....How many times you gonna see that?
I was asleep when this kicked off. I was at Virginia Tech majoring in Chemical Engineering. I had taken a nap about 7PM after a day of classes and my phone kept ringing and ringing and ringing. I picked it up and it was my mom saying "Turn on the TV, turn on the TV". I did and knew immediately the US was going to war.
Gen X was just coming of age during this time. Many of us were for the war, but even those who were against it, nevertheless had sound reasons and still respected our military. The previous generation's anti- war movement, otoh, behaved disgracefully.
I think we, as a generation, learned from our parents that what happened to those coming back from Vietnam was utterly wrong and we were taught time and again how to behave towards those coming home from war
there is an excellent movie about this night and the events that led up to the war. It's called "Live From Baghdad". It has Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Keaton, Bruce McGill, Michael Cudlitz and many other great actors. Bruce McGill plays Perter Arnett and knocks that role out of the park!
I remember seeing the war as it started first thing in the morning here in the UK. It must have been like 5am here or something like that, because me and my dad were up getting ready for work. We would usually watch a bit of news before we went, while we drank our coffee and got our packed lunches ready. We got to work a little late that day, and when we got there one of the guys was not there, because he was a police officer and some kind of military reservist and he had apparently been called in the middle of the night and told to get to barracks or something. I also remember that everyone was well behind this war. Everyone understood what a despicable man Saddam was, what horrific things he was doing to the kurds and even his own people. I remember the anger when Bush sr. pulled out without finishing the job. The press, the people, everyone went nuts, they wanted the job finished. Then I remember just 12 years later, Bush jr. wanting (legitimately) to go back and finish the job (because Saddam had reneged on the ceasefire agreement by banning the UN weapons inspectors), and almost everyone had the opposite opinion. Bunch of fucking moronic hypocrites. Going in the first time was awesome, second time was somehow not allowed, was "illegal war", and we should leave Saddam alone, he's just a poor little dick-tator wanting to oppress his people in peace.
Who are you to decide what is good for the people of iraq... You europeans went there to loot iraq and somewhat succeeded to destroy the country.Did you guys made the situation better.... NO.... You people actually made it worse.
Hard to believe that was 30 years ago. I was just a kid at the time, but a lot of young folks don't remember that the United States hadn't had a major conflict since Vietnam before that war. We had limited engagements throughout the Reagan Administration, but this was the first real war. It really put a scare into the Russians because no one realized just how far we'd come in the short 15 years between the fall of Saigon and a totally lopsided victory against Saddam Hussein's "million man army" in the desert.
You would be trashing the $h!t out of this man today if he were still alive and covering this $hit show of a White House. Jennings would be all over idiot Trump and his low IQ base.
Gary Shepard is a boss! Reporters today would be shitting themselves as this unfolded. He just seems like he is in a lounge chair describing his favorite wine to everyone.
I will never forget being underway (out at sea)and the captain coming over the 1mc or speakers on the ship and saying men we are going into the straits of hormuz near Saudi Arabia and our captain saying men we are at war with Iraq wha!! I was 19 years old in aug.of 1990 but im glad I could help out cause boy im retired at 46 and getting a nice veterans check every month yee hah!!!!
I was on the USS Seattle out in the Red Sea suppling 3 Carrier Battle groups plus the Multi-National ships. We were beat tired but got the job done! 50 years old and looking back, I said-"Wow, I really did that!.'
I was born a few years AFTER this happened. Is this what the news was like all the time? He's just giving facts. There's no favoritism in either direction, and the information given is actually correct. Did the media actually care about their jobs back then?
I was in the 101st Airborne Division there at the time. I remember we were up close the the Iraq border. My buddy came and woke me up around 3am and told me we had launched 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles and the war had started. I promptly went back to sleep. lol
@San47di ....I remember when Peter Jennings said that CNN used to be the little network that could, they are not that little network anymore! Basically gave them there respect and reconized them as a major network!
"Butterfly, what is your wisdom?" And I looked down at its majestic form, flexing its wings as if to show me it's strength. "Fuck Iraq" it whispered to me before it fluttered away. And so we went to war.
It was a night vision camera, obviously nothing like the quality we have today. He also used a satellite phone which were big really expensive phones that actually communicated with satellites. Also something called 4 wire that was a long wire that went under the sand to a Jordan dish which would bounce off the satellite to CNN.
My cousin is a retired United States Marine corporal, and he was over in the Middle East during desert storm. He drove the M1 A1 Abrams tank in the ground assault part of the war. He’s told me every single story about being deployed over there and what it was like. I remember the Second war in Iraq because it started two years after I was born in 2005. Because I remember watching on the TV George W. Bush who is president at the time provide the American public with updates about what was going on in Iraq. My dad was in Homeland security, he didn’t go to the Middle East though. He was mainly stationed here in the US with Homeland security. One of the crazy things I remember about the second war in Iraq was seeing all the pictures and videos coming out of Iraq, showing all the destroyed buildings,And all the bombings, plus explosions from IEDs, and I also remember watching President George W Bush give his address on the aircraft carrier that had the mission accomplished banner underneath the bridge of the carrier. My parents finally remember Peter Jennings very well. Now I’m 17 and I’m wanting to follow in my cousins footsteps and join the military and serve my country.
Back when special report meant something was going on
True !!
Breaking News! Ugh, that one is _overdone_ .
I still remember years ago a tv program was interrupted with "breaking news". Apparently a celebrity had been arrested! I think it was Justine Beaver, don't remember, I was just like wtf?! This is considered breaking news?!?!
You bet when we saw Breaking News or Special Report on your screen you took notice as you knew there was something major going on
@@MrDuds1984 And now it just means someone fed a stray kitten. WOW BREAKING NEWS!!11!!11!
I think Gary Shepard in Baghdad was a bit overwhelmed as he didn't answer any questions once he started describing what he saw. Sounded like he couldn't stop :D
Antares he sounds high af x)
i think the ancho knew he would go on a tangent and thats why he said explain quickly to begin with .
I would be really drunk if I were him to keep from freaking out. “The city is being bombed and I am in a tall hotel.....” Shit!
Gary in bagdad is either high or just in shock and awe. Lmao damn right. It is a shocking sight.
I suspect he ignored the questions due to safety reasons.
I was in 3rd Armor Division as a tank driver during that conflict. Its so surreal to see the events in the media at that time.
Adam thank you for your service Sir.
I was on Guard Duty at the Port in Riyadh when Desert Storm started. So, I've never seen this either.
I'm making a Playlist on my channel.
Big Bed One engineers out of Fort Riley KS!
Glad to see you made it back ok.
Thank you for your service. Glad you made it back home. HOOAH!
Star Trek: The Next Generation season ending cliffhanger was half way through when 'we interrupt this program to bring you the Gulf War'....
Is that wat happened?
@@benconway9010 If I recall correctly, new episodes aired at like 7 pm and the second half of The Best of Both Worlds was about to begin when the news cut in and showed live footage of predawn bombardment of Baghdad. Episodes were routinely rerun during the week so...
@@ravenopenheart2649 I think he was just talking about what he was watching when the war began and the program cut off
Welcome back to the real world moment. Enterprise really does a good job of showing us how to transition to that TNG society, i hope.
@@ravenopenheart2649 Wow! What a kindly response.
When Peter Jennings was no longer on WNT, I stopped watching news as religiously as I did before. Cable News of all networks made me stop completely.
He’s matter-of-fact, calm, and does no speculating. This is television journalism.
I was there....launched every plane we had loaded! I'm 6'3 at the time around 225lbs, when I made it home I had lost 20 pound and looked like I had a disease. That was what 29 years ago?
What was your whole role if you don’t mind me asking
So you were a Fil-Am who served during Desert Storm?
Another sham war
In less than 2 weeks, it'll be 30 years.
That makes you the tallest Filipino I know :) Salamat sa iyong serbisyo!
As a Desert Shield/Desert Storm Vet I never saw any of the news. now 29 years later I see it
thank you for your service
did you get any of the gold bars
@@34ey5drift8 - Just a gold ring and gold chain. But I had to pay for them, so it didn't count lol
@@weaponeer wish i had gotten the truck fulls of them alone
@@34ey5drift8 - same here... I'm a disabled vet with 18 years of service, yet I have not had a running car in 5 years. I live in a super small remote country town and even a Walmart is 45 minutes away and the only thing we have here is one gas station. so no food, no rides and no luck. at least I would have been able to use a couple bar of gold to get a cheap car and get food. during the first gulf war the King of Saudi arabia wanted to give each soldier $10,000. but the US declined saying it would mean the US troops would have been mercinaries. all of use said we were fine with being called that for the money lol
"The sound of distant thunderous explosions yet no apparent bombs falling on Baghdad"
It's at this point that you realize just how radically different the F-117s bombing runs were from previous ones.
In what way were they different?
@@jacklambert1521 Pre-Desert Storm bombing runs had a lot more spectacle to them. You tended to not only see the planes and falling bombs but also hear them.
@@Eboreg2 So the planes during Desert Storm flew lower, and the bombs were less visible?
@@jacklambert1521 The F-117s were able to fly much higher from the ground and only needed to drop one bomb to hit their targets. Also, the attacks happened at night.
@@Eboreg2 Got it, thank you!
I miss Peter Jennings. Professional, poised, articulate, thoroughly a class act.
Christopher Thorkon now we have fucking CNN with their buzz feed reporters and the Wall Street Journal with their sjw crap
I see OJ man, and he looked scared... And I would be too, 'cause there's cops deep in this!
He was just another libtard ideologue, actually.
Fuck him. Anti-American Canadian asshole.
@@johnmcdonald9304 < people were making great, moderately well articulated points until this guy xD there's always one
I was always amazed that there were news reporters in Baghdad who were allowed to keep reporting. They were basically acting as spotters for the military.
I'm surprised they weren't arrested, interred or murdered.
Nope, they were in a hotel. They had no communication with the military. Peter Jennings was famous or infamous for saying he would not interfere if a US convoy was about to be ambushed, he'd just cover it.
there’s nothing they could say that the US military wouldn’t know.
and the entire world too. i was watching this live on satelite TV from Malaysia.
Lol taking the media hostage is never a smart idea. That is a huge breach of war law on par with gas . Plus who knows Saddam could of either thought that they had a chance and it would of been reported to Americans that Iraq was doing well. Or thought that if they seen Baghdad getting bombed the american public would of had a change of heart. They was watching this report as it was happening (the Iraq leaders) and was actually confused . As the attack hadent actually started at this time and the anti air had opened for no reason. And they was wondering wtf there guys was shooting at. The first attacks were carried out by bombers that they had no chance of knowing was up there until the bombs hit.
I hate news today.... .. news with Peter Jennings is.. We know something is going on we dont know what is going on but lets go to the source of the activity.. Now its all. we know something is going on, we dont know what;s going on, let's go to our panel of people who also have no idea on what is going on but think their opinion matters.
Agent 47. I am sorry but can you formulate a full question as to what has confused you?
I follow what you're saying. This was back when you could actually trust the newscasters and the network news dept.
johnk1955 yep. As opposed to some prankster who calls in saying they’re on the scene
that is meta.
That can be blamed on corporations and capitalism getting involved with news broadcast stations by owning the networks as a whole or as a majority owner.
I was a long haul trucker (after retiring from the US nuclear submarine Navy) listening to the news on the radio. When the war began, I pulled off into a safe place and watched the coverage all night long. Needless to say, my load was late. (I had a, uh, err .... flat tire ... yeah, that's the ticket)
Good excuse. I used the "ekectical problem" excuse
I’m gonna call highly bullshit on that statement.
If your “load” was anything nuclear or uranium then you did not sit there and watch the broadcast. Your higher ups would have been up your ass especially with war breaking out. So I’m gonna call bullshit on that, sorry had to debunk your statement
OriginalKriegg you sir are an idiot. He said he became a trucker after retiring from the nuclear submarine navy. Dense and stupid.
@@xIIM40A3IIx hahahaha you're so thick
OriginalKriegg delete your comment moron
Gary was in 'war mode' and said F*it with questions! Stay in your lane Dan lol
Reality Notfiction II that’s Peter... not Dan
haha, classic "take no shit" Gary
The media sensationalism during this was astounding. I was 20 when this happened and I distinctly remember frequent frenzied discussion of "another Vietnam" and "mired" and "reinstitute the draft."
The war lasted four fucking days.
To be fair no one realized that the Iraqi army was as shitty as it turned out to be, especially with the lack of armor compared to the amount of infantry
@@jackl4151 Funny enough, the Taliban / ISIS "army" is even shittier, and the US and it's allies took now 20 years of war....
@@MistedMind So the Iraq army can somehow be equated to the Taliban? Hmmmm
@@jackl4151 That's the point. It seems, that the more advanced the army, the more effective the modern US-Forces are.
Can't fight against "Partisan tactics" the same way you fight organized military.
@@MistedMind Ok? Yeah? Was I disputing this?
We give a deadline and followed through with it wow I miss the good ole days
W J so you are telling me if I give my friend a gun and they use it it's my fault?
stenbak88 Yes, actually. You don't give your gun to anyone.
I was 16 years old watching this very newscast in 1991.
Woah how crazy was it?
Gary clearly can’t hear you or doesn’t seem to care.
He is overwhelmed
Gary: "well ......uhhh ...... the lights are .... Uhhhh on and the uhhhhhh .. as far as the eye can uhhhhb ... see .... And uhhhhhh .... Their seems to be uhhhhhh...... Anti-aircraft uhhhhh fire.
Cashier: "Sir this is a Wendy's"
Same here I was 11 years old when I was watching the news and saw this happen live right before my eyes.
RIP Peter Jennings there will never ever ever be another person like you. Wish the news was still broadcasted and reported this way
This just brings me back to the day and when I saw f-117s flying over my head on their way to do damage
Kirk Nicholson Glad you’re still here to this day 🙏🏿
The brief break and switch over to Special Coverage was for west coast stations to be able join the network.
I remember watching these broadcasts. I was 4 years old then and getting brought into the living room and set down in front of the TV and being explained what was going on. I miss Peter Jennings :/ he was what news broadcasting is supposed to be to me.
4 years old and you remember, yea right
I was in the 7th grade when Desert Storm happened. And I agree about Peter Jennings because I was once a journalism student in high school and the news of his death from Lung Cancer in 2005 took me by surprise.
I was in a hole in the ground at FOB Bastonge on the Saudi/Iraq border.
Me: *snore
Private Snuffy: "Hey, wake up. What's a Tomohawk? We just launched a bunch of them."
Me: FFUUUUUUUUUU! *Leaps out of hole, stumbles in sleeping bag*
when the US armed forces knocks on your door, you got a problem..
that happens for any war ever, like its just part of war dude
*you got oil. Ftfy
You've missed the Turkish Taxi.
@@user-nw9nm6pv3u i was thinking thé same thing
It wasn't just the US, it was a coalition of 39 countries. The countries were Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. I would most certainly say they had a problem.
Did anyone notice the inaccuracies of their maps?
The Baghdad city map has the Iraqi flag and "Baghdad" together at the top, and "IRAQ" in the middle of the city (seemingly reversed).
And the one at 2:08 has Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in the same colour and labelled simply as Israel.
It was just a general map, did you want them to display street names too holy shit
There are borders if you look very close but its really hard to see. They just left out the names of them.
Hard to believe this was aired just before my first birthday. How time passes...
lol! I was @ Mardi Gras in New Orleans. All of the parade floats were done up patriotic.
rockisheaven It was 5 days after my 1st b day!
I remember that night very well. I was watching this ABC News broadcast and told my mother to turn on the TV because there was something going on in Baghdad. She didn't believe it, and thought there wouldn't be a war. My cousin was over there, so my family was watching the news coverage very intently. I didn't go to bed that night until well after 1am.
USS America, one of 6 aircraft carriers there. You just don't mess with the U.S.
Well, Iraq didn't actually mess with the US. It was the other way around.
I knew the navy was engaged, but I didn’t realize it was half the damn fleet of super carriers. I counted 11 total in the fleet at that time (which I hope is the right count)
I was there on the USS John F Kennedy CV67 in the Red Sea. Will never forget that night as we launched the 1st strike.
morgan Are you forgetting the part where we were allied with Kuwait?
@@gmmakesmehurl yeah iraq really should have pulled out of Kuwait.
Dammit gary! Stop talking and answer the questions!!! 😂
Not like hes watching a war or anything!
He said he wanted to report as much as possible because he had no idea if/when he'd be cut off and he couldn't answer their questions anyway.
I remember that night very well! I was watching ABC World News when they reported this. My cousin was in Saudi Arabia at the time. I ran into the kitchen and told my mother to turn on the news, that something was happening in Baghdad.
Lel Saddam said it was going to be "the mother of all wars". It ended up being the mother of all turkey shoots :P
Really shows the power of technology when you have the 3rd largest army, well seasoned troops, and the best export equipment available in the world but still get into one of the world's most lopsided wars.
Thanos Car I don’t reckon he had nukes at all but desert storm was the invasion not to remove saddam but to take back Kuwait after the unlawful invasion.
@Thanos Car He was "working on nukes" as well as other wmds, and he had chemical weapons. They were almost all sent to Syria in the run-up to the later Iraq War for safe keeping.
Saddam had WMDs when we said he did. Later, when the war started, he had already sent most of them to Syria since they wouldn't have been effective against us and he did not want President Bush to be proven right.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER where did you learn that? I'm curious
@@bt5875 Saddams top Air Force general, and 2nd in command of the Iraqi military, General Georges Sada stated it numerous times in interviews.
And he explained it, as well as many other things in his fascinating autobiography.
General Georges Sada was/is an honorable man and officer. One of the very few or perhaps the only honorable man in the upper Iraqi echelon.
He is known as "the only man who ever told Saddam 'no', and lived."
Saddam deeply respected him because he was utterly competent, a rare trait amongst the fearful yes men who surrounded the evil tyrant. And he was utterly unpolitical. He only cared about military matters.
The book is fascinating, and I don't normally like autobiographies or biographies. But I still loved it.
His personal stories of Saddam from before he became a dictator were interesting too.
This general, after the war, spoke with the pilots who flew much of the WMD program to Syria, his men, who would absolutely not have lied to him. And he was informed that every one of the flights was packed with WMDs. Nothing else.
And that's on top of the night time truck convoys into Syria that undoubtedly carried the less important stuff, or things that couldn't be transported by plane.
The Baath Party of Syria (Assads party) is the sister party of the Baath Party of Iraq. Started by same group of people, with the same goals and principles (or rather lack thereof), back in the 50s.
Saddam was one of their punk street enforcers back then.
Georges Sada and his wife used to pick up Saddams wife as a courtesy, and carry her to and from her school teacher job in the 60s, since Saddam was a nobody then and didn't have a car, and Sada did. Fascinating stories!!
I was very concerned when we went to war, I even called my command and they told me to come in.
1 hour recall was all navy ships would of had given crews to comeback,after that underway
@@williamescolantejr5871 different commands different recall times is the way it was in the early nineties. My command way low priority so it had a 24he recall time.
@@pelicanbeater6100 idk I was in the 80s
That dude was hypnotised
I remember back in 1/17/91 when i watch the
coverage on FEN by the live board cast from
ARM FORCES RADIO AND TELEVISION here in the
Philippines and they transfer to CNN after ABC.
What a day to remember
I was commo support for 529th Ordinance CO. Ammo DS at CSA 32 Log base Echo during the war. We were too busy to be scared. 4 by 4 mile supermarket of ammo from 9mm to MLRS missiles and 155 rounds and Hellfires. We had RT 46s and 47s and the good ol' PRC 77s. The intranets were in their infancy and we were lucky to get a phone call home with an 8 second delay! My hats off to the warfighters who kicked ass there and ended the cold war after. Hooah!! Would do it again!!
They were still using prick 77s then? Wow. I remember learning in training (I never saw action) nobody wanted to be radio operator because radio was always right next to the CO and the enemy knew that so they aimed near that big fuc#$+g antenna!
1991: Special report (Desert Storm begins)
2020: Special report (Trump has taken multiple breaths since 2016)
2021: Special report (Biden's dog has bitten someone, they now get a cat)
Gary in Baghdad seems like he couldn't hear from his earpiece. He just kept rambling since part 1 like a lone radio DJ doing a remote with his cell phone.
back when the ABC was real news.. that's some nostalgia for you
Gotta apprechiate how you can hear the reporter who is in baghdad trying to not panic
I remember watching this on TV live, because my father was over there. It was scary
Wow, I remember watching this. I'd always wondered what would happen if some big news event broke while the evening news was running. It was interesting seeing them switch to Special Report mode for the benefit of affiliates that weren't currently showing the news.
I was -2 when this happened.
I was -15 beat that
January 1991, I was 5 years old. Barely recall the events, if any at all. Both parents were Air Force; my dad was part of Desert Shield (the logistics build-up to Desert Storm). I can't remember if my mother was part of the operation as well, but I don't think so.
My fiance and I were sitting in front of the tv, along with her brother, when this special report came on and the war started. I saw tears in his eyes. It was three nights before our wedding and honeymoon night. We spent our honeymoon night in a hotel in Philadelphia. The next morning our flight to Florida had only 15 people on the plane. They said everyone was worried about terrorism.
THIS is what the American World Police should be. We went in, freed the people, topped the dictator and left this deserves a RAHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅
God, I was young then.
6120mcghee hahahha. i was 7 in Baghdad. i remember i was a sleep then woke up the house shaking. so many bombs then we had a blackout. the city used to be beautiful but now nothing but garbage
I was spooked when we listened to our C.O. giving us the "This is REAL" talk. After that we were ready.
@Jimmy AMEN TO THAT BRO>!!! I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND JOINED THE NAVY AND NEXT THING IM ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF A CARRIER AS A FIREMAN THAT WAS FEB. 1971 !!
@@aliabbas2010 I can't imagine having to live through that. It's a shame the leaders in this country value money, oil, and power over human lives.
I'm 35 now I can remember this on tv when I was a small child it was in night vision black and green I remember a long line of tanks all shooting shells at the same time
Dad was working in Imam University in Riyadh while these were happening. He remembers the missiles that sent shockwaves as they exploded. The doors were shaking and they feared that fragments from the missile were going to fall on them. He especially remembers the sounds of the air raid sirens and the radio that was working 24/7. The gas masks that they wore every time they went out to buy their essentials.
Thank you YT algorithm for bringing up this video in November 2020... 13 years after it was uploaded. ^^
I know this is old but watch the Operations Room video about it. They show the full scale of what happened in those beginning hours of the Gulf War if you're interested.
I never got to see any of this on the news, I didn’t return to Germany until 17 May, 1991.....
Back in the day when the 3 networks still had some shreds of credibility and professionalism. How far they've sunk.
I was supposed to conduct a surveillance of a cleaning crew, and remember this well, I borrowed a tv from evidence, and would sneek a peek at the news while they moved position, I had a Son over there, was praying for his safety.
Gary must have balls of steel. I could never be that close to an active combat zone, especially in a foreign land.
I was a jarhead on the Kuwait border when this kicked off. Was over there since the previous August. I was so done with waiting. Still didn’t get to go home until April. Not sure why this just showed up in my feed.
They handled things so much more professional back then
We now go to Baghdad where the dullest man in the world is on the phone with us .
😂
I would’ve screamed 😂
Pure professionalism that's it with bombs coming down teh place you are in a warzone I think it's impressive not dull
Was with the 1st Armored Division on the border, right before we charged over the berms. I wondered how the news reported some of this back then. Gives me the shakes for some reason.
To me, the Gulf War was the greatest war in US history and the capstone of an era. So efficient, so decsive and precise and competent the attack appeared and really was, especially for military standards. And the goal? The goal was noble, freeing a country. We trashed Saddams Army, got Kuwait back, and then left. All the experience, the technology, the beating of the soviets culminated into this one great war.
Just a couple of points I really need to point out.
1. The U.S were not the only ones fighting in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the U.K, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt along with a Coalition which included the following countries in some form or another: Afghan mujahideen, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Honduras. Hungary, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland. Portugal, Qatar, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
2. U.S troops are still stationed in Kuwait, so no, you didn't just leave. (Not that I'm complaining that they are still there as they, along with the British are part of the reason Saddam didn't cross over the border the two credible times he threatened to cross over the border while I lived there, although I will say that the U.S military screwing up the clearing of minefields in Southern Kuwait nearly killed myself and 20-30 other children when we were brought to the area camping after the U.S military said the area was safe....)
3. Whilst the U.S may have been the lead in the UN Coalition, there are people who lived through the occupation of Kuwait feel that the real saviour of Kuwait is Margret Thatcher who ensured that the British Government at the time would stand by a long standing treaty between the U.K and Kuwait.
Yeah, everybody looks good against little league pitching.
Peter Jennings was an honest reporter. When reporters were trusted
Was sitting in the CIWS gun mount at GQ on my ship while this report was going on. Shock & awe, the prequel!
I'll forever remember this broadcast
Peter Jennings the last real journalist
Big props to that reporter because he had to have been terrified.
Why did UA-cam suggest me after 13 yrs?😅
Lol
Seen this when I was 18 in Panama after the invasion never thought I would be there 11 years later for OIF
I'll never forget this... I was there.....Turned 21 in Iraq....A country you cannot drink alcohol in..So much for my 21st birthday...... 2nd Battalion 3rd Air Defense Artillery.....I also missed the superbowl... Damn Saddam! At least we kicked his ass outta there in 100 hrs.....How many times you gonna see that?
ABCD ABCD He wasn't the one that declared war. He was just following orders.
Matty 0 aaaaannnnnd that's no excuse
He got nothing to excuse. Orders are orders but I guess you can't understand that.
Gianluca Torromeo He was not only following orders, he was happy to execute them. Now he doesn't even regret his acts.
sadam was a monster, its not the military's fault for the modern state of the nation, but our country and the way we handled the situation
I was asleep when this kicked off. I was at Virginia Tech majoring in Chemical Engineering. I had taken a nap about 7PM after a day of classes and my phone kept ringing and ringing and ringing. I picked it up and it was my mom saying "Turn on the TV, turn on the TV". I did and knew immediately the US was going to war.
Gen X was just coming of age during this time. Many of us were for the war, but even those who were against it, nevertheless had sound reasons and still respected our military. The previous generation's anti- war movement, otoh, behaved disgracefully.
I think we, as a generation, learned from our parents that what happened to those coming back from Vietnam was utterly wrong and we were taught time and again how to behave towards those coming home from war
Gary straight up ignores any questions the anchor asks him, in both video parts.
Cruise missiles and F-117's were very busy at that point.
Don't forget the Apaches that if memory serves were actually the first aircraft to fire upon Iraqi radar sites.
there is an excellent movie about this night and the events that led up to the war. It's called "Live From Baghdad". It has Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Keaton, Bruce McGill, Michael Cudlitz and many other great actors. Bruce McGill plays Perter Arnett and knocks that role out of the park!
I wish the news reporter had integrity and dignity in their report like they did during those times. It’s a shame to see how they’ve become
I remember seeing the war as it started first thing in the morning here in the UK.
It must have been like 5am here or something like that, because me and my dad were up getting ready for work. We would usually watch a bit of news before we went, while we drank our coffee and got our packed lunches ready.
We got to work a little late that day, and when we got there one of the guys was not there, because he was a police officer and some kind of military reservist and he had apparently been called in the middle of the night and told to get to barracks or something.
I also remember that everyone was well behind this war. Everyone understood what a despicable man Saddam was, what horrific things he was doing to the kurds and even his own people.
I remember the anger when Bush sr. pulled out without finishing the job. The press, the people, everyone went nuts, they wanted the job finished.
Then I remember just 12 years later, Bush jr. wanting (legitimately) to go back and finish the job (because Saddam had reneged on the ceasefire agreement by banning the UN weapons inspectors), and almost everyone had the opposite opinion.
Bunch of fucking moronic hypocrites. Going in the first time was awesome, second time was somehow not allowed, was "illegal war", and we should leave Saddam alone, he's just a poor little dick-tator wanting to oppress his people in peace.
Who are you to decide what is good for the people of iraq... You europeans went there to loot iraq and somewhat succeeded to destroy the country.Did you guys made the situation better.... NO....
You people actually made it worse.
I had just enlisted and was a HS senior shortly before that day.
Hard to believe that was 30 years ago. I was just a kid at the time, but a lot of young folks don't remember that the United States hadn't had a major conflict since Vietnam before that war. We had limited engagements throughout the Reagan Administration, but this was the first real war. It really put a scare into the Russians because no one realized just how far we'd come in the short 15 years between the fall of Saigon and a totally lopsided victory against Saddam Hussein's "million man army" in the desert.
this is when news was news not the trash today
You would be trashing the $h!t out of this man today if he were still alive and covering this $hit show of a White House. Jennings would be all over idiot Trump and his low IQ base.
Gary Shepard is a boss! Reporters today would be shitting themselves as this unfolded. He just seems like he is in a lounge chair describing his favorite wine to everyone.
Our first war on TV. I had friends from my service over there.
Little did they know at the time. The technological marvel as in the f117 nighthawk was patrolling the skies
Was in my first week of basic training 😬
Gary really likes talking about those tracers
A professional Journalist
I remember him saying that, too. Thanks for reminding me.
I was 30 days old during this safe in NYC
Peter Jennings was a great news reporter...people like him are sadly missed in my opinion
Fantastic Peter !!! RIP Miss you
I will never forget being underway (out at sea)and the captain coming over the 1mc or speakers on the ship and saying men we are going into the straits of hormuz near Saudi Arabia and our captain saying men we are at war with Iraq wha!! I was 19 years old in aug.of 1990 but im glad I could help out cause boy im retired at 46 and getting a nice veterans check every month yee hah!!!!
I was on the USS Seattle out in the Red Sea suppling 3 Carrier Battle groups plus the Multi-National ships. We were beat tired but got the job done! 50 years old and looking back, I said-"Wow, I really did that!.'
Thanks for your service🇺🇸
I was born a few years AFTER this happened. Is this what the news was like all the time? He's just giving facts. There's no favoritism in either direction, and the information given is actually correct. Did the media actually care about their jobs back then?
Gary doesn’t listen bro how far are you my amigo
I was in middle school when the war began.
journeystarr has it ended yet?
I was 2 years old lol
I was in the 101st Airborne Division there at the time. I remember we were up close the the Iraq border. My buddy came and woke me up around 3am and told me we had launched 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles and the war had started. I promptly went back to sleep. lol
Today's the 30th anniversary of Desert Storm.
@San47di ....I remember when Peter Jennings said that CNN used to be the little network that could, they are not that little network anymore! Basically gave them there respect and reconized them as a major network!
"Butterfly, what is your wisdom?"
And I looked down at its majestic form, flexing its wings as if to show me it's strength.
"Fuck Iraq" it whispered to me before it fluttered away.
And so we went to war.
Gary doesn't want to be disturbed.
Meanwhile the CNN reporter actually had a low-res camera-phone of some kind of.
It was a night vision camera, obviously nothing like the quality we have today. He also used a satellite phone which were big really expensive phones that actually communicated with satellites. Also something called 4 wire that was a long wire that went under the sand to a Jordan dish which would bounce off the satellite to CNN.
My cousin is a retired United States Marine corporal, and he was over in the Middle East during desert storm. He drove the M1 A1 Abrams tank in the ground assault part of the war. He’s told me every single story about being deployed over there and what it was like. I remember the Second war in Iraq because it started two years after I was born in 2005. Because I remember watching on the TV George W. Bush who is president at the time provide the American public with updates about what was going on in Iraq. My dad was in Homeland security, he didn’t go to the Middle East though. He was mainly stationed here in the US with Homeland security. One of the crazy things I remember about the second war in Iraq was seeing all the pictures and videos coming out of Iraq, showing all the destroyed buildings,And all the bombings, plus explosions from IEDs, and I also remember watching President George W Bush give his address on the aircraft carrier that had the mission accomplished banner underneath the bridge of the carrier. My parents finally remember Peter Jennings very well. Now I’m 17 and I’m wanting to follow in my cousins footsteps and join the military and serve my country.
Sitting in Dover watching this. His of you were too?