provided $13 billion to help the anti-Iraq coalition but sent no troops (A+)
The retreating Iraqi soldiers famously set fire to a number of major Kuwaiti Oil Fields at the close of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.
Approximately 30 US Sailors aboard the USS Stark were killed when an Iraqi jet fired a missile at the warship during the 1st Gulf War in 1980-1988 (Iran-Iraq War).
Some 697,000 active duty service members and activated National Guard and Reserve unit members served in the Persian Gulf theater of operations.http://www.defense.gov/news/fact_sheets/f950304_gwi_fact.html
Which gulf war. The US participated in three of them.
provided $13 billion to help the anti-Iraq coalition but sent no troops (A+)
Jean LaFitte and his pirates
The retreating Iraqi soldiers famously set fire to a number of major Kuwaiti Oil Fields at the close of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991.
Gulf of Mexico and the Psersian Gulf are very popular and world known!
Which gulf war? '80's, '91, or 2003?
LBJ
the gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Approximately 30 US Sailors aboard the USS Stark were killed when an Iraqi jet fired a missile at the warship during the 1st Gulf War in 1980-1988 (Iran-Iraq War).
Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf was created in 1968.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Almost all of the western allied nations did.
Korea, Europe, patrolling the Persian Gulf, etc.