U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: Combat Services Support in Desert Shield and Desert Storm

The Iraqi invasion and takeover of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 threatened
the stability of fraq's neighbors and the disruption of the world oil supply. Faced
with this crisis, U.S. President George Bush drew a "line in the sand" in Saudi
Arabia and formed a grand coalition of European and Arab nations to throw back
the Iraqi Army and dampen the ambitions, if not bring down the regime, of Iraq's
unpredictable dictator, Saddam Hussein. At the heart of the coalition were the
U.S. Armed Forces with the U.S. Marine Corps deploying along the cutting edge.
The first challenge of the crisis would be the rapid delivery of troops and material to the Persian Gulf.