Currently live in Booneville, AR with my husband, Mike (retired MGySgt Holcomb) in our dream home with our dream equine barn and workshop out on our 163-acre horse ranch, named Holcomb's Marine Acres Ranch! Our children have all moved out and are living across the US. Our oldest, Mike Jr, was a CPL in the USMC with HMH-465 at Miramar; our 2nd son, Michael, was a SSgt in the USMC at Camp Lejeune, NC; our oldest daughter, Megan, is was a Corporal in May 2013 with HMH-462 at Miramar. Our youngest daughter, Angel, has her degree in nursing and works as a ICD10 Coding Supervisor for Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Our youngest son, William. Is a former Texas Corrections Officer and just moved to Booneville, AR with his wife. I'm working for SMIT/NMCI/NGEN in my 21st year as a Program Manager/SR Project Manager IV and my hubby retired after 25+ years in July 2011 and enjoys his Compliance Manager/Assistant Plant Manager/Quality Mgr job working for Matheson Tri-Gas in Mulberry, AR. We now have 14 grandchildren ranging in age from 0yrs to 14.5yrs old. We have 6 granddaughters and 8 grandsons. Very happy and love my family and our life together with our 8 Quarter horses (Rosie, Sampson, Sasha, Skeeter, Buckshot, MuddyGirl, Sienna and Shyann), 2 Labrador retrievers (Zeus-black and Hunter-yellow), our german shorthair mix (Luna-black/white/brown) and our calico barn cat (Clyde) in our Booneville, AR home! God has blessed me for sure!!
Gulf War/Liberation and Defense of Kuwait/Operation Desert Storm
From Month/Year
January / 1991
To Month/Year
February / 1991
Description On January 16, 1991, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of what would be called Operation Desert Storm—a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen nations had positioned more than 900,000 troops in the region, most stationed on the Saudi-Iraq border. A U.N.-declared deadline for withdrawal passed on January 15, with no action from Iraq, so coalition forces began a five-week bombardment of Iraqi command and control targets from air and sea. Despite widespread fears that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein might order the use of chemical weapons, a ground invasion followed in February. Coalition forces swiftly drove Iraq from Kuwait, advancing into Iraq, and reaching a cease-fire within 100 hours—controversially leaving Saddam Hussein in power. While coalition casualties were in the hundreds, Iraqi losses numbered in the tens of thousands.
