Oh, yeah, there was a WHOLE BUNCH of military trash all over the country: shattered fighting vehicles, mortar shells, machine-guns, various emplacements and defensive works, ration cans and uniform parts, miscellaneous munitions of every shape and size, and WAY TOO MANY LANDMINES.
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False dawn in the Burgan Field |
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Shattered Iraqi armored personnel carrier (should be called "lightly" armored personnel carrier). Not much "there" there, as its unfortunate occupants no doubt found out. |
Something (probably an A10 attack plane) had shot it full of holes, each about the diameter of a softball. Then some smart (or lucky!) missle or bomb had tossed it up in the air and slammed it back down — hard — so it was rather more squashed than not. |
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A mortar pit conveniently close to our dining hall in the field. This particular position (in the yard of a small experimental date palm research station) was abandoned the first day of the war, when the Iraqis believed that the entire US Marine Corps was going to land on their flanks. |
Bullets, grenades, loose this and that left behind when a trench works in the Ahmadi field was abandoned. |
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Two views of aircraft shelters built in Kuwait by the Iraqis during the occupation. Several feet of concrete did not protect the planes from penetrating bombs. |
A tank round, if I'm not mistaken. |
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