25 years ago tomorrow, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait...where were you on that day?

I was at home in Fayetteville, NC with my family preparing for DRF-1 Inspections and preparing to sign in off of Block Leave. My unit was scheduled to begin DRF-1 on the following Monday. My cousin that was in the Air Force was visiting. I called the Bn Staff Duty NCO to check in, my cousin called his base and was told to get back as quickly as possible. Helped my cousin pack up his car and got him on the road. The Monday following the battalion signed in from Block Leave and had the normal DRF-1 preparatory activities with one major difference, we had radios and TV's tuned to the news. That evening we were released to go home, that night at midnight we were alerted, a couple of days later we were on the ground in Saudi Arabia and became the "Line in the Sand". The 2nd Brigade/325th AIR, 82nd Airborne Division.

In a conference room conducting a briefing...

I was at Camp LeJeune, NC and utterly CLUELESS as to what impact his actions would have on me, my Marine Corps career, and the world as a whole.