Fred, another good post with some good info. I have been to the Arizona twice. I will have to look for the name you posted in my pictures. Standing over the Arizona on the memorial is awe inspiring. The drops of
oil still leaking from her and rising to the surface. The flowers floating in the water that people throw over her. The whole experience is something every American should do.
427, Before the ground war (at least the official ground war because we were in Iraq weeks before) in the first Gulf War we had MLRS shooting over our position on the border and into Iraq. It was insane to stand there and watch hundreds of rockets fly over us and impact beyond our view. We could see the flashes in the sky, but not the direct point of impact.
Indirect fire is some scarry stuff. The Iraqi's fired some shells at us when we were clearing a building on the border, and it's scarry not being able to see where the stuff is being fired from.