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The 1st Cavalry next fought as a heavy division, during Operation Desert Storm [66] in January and February 1991. It participated in the Battle of Norfolk . The 1st Cavalry Division deployed in October 1990 as part of XVIII Corps .
On 25 February 1991, with the onset of Operation Desert Storm, the battalion conducted a raid as a part of the 1st Cavalry Division's deception plan. The battalion would serve as the vanguard of the division's movement north to cut off retreating an Iraqi Republican Guard Division at Basra.
The Battle of Wadi al-Batin, also known as the Battle of Ruqi Pocket, took place before the beginning of the Desert Storm operations on 16 February 1991. This is not to be confused with the "Battle of Wadi al-Batin" which was fought later in the four-day ground war between elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (United States) and the Iraqi Republican Guard.
On 25 February 1991, with the onset of Operation Desert Storm, the brigade conducted a raid as a part of the 1st Cavalry Division's deception plan to throw Iraqi forces off guard. The units of the brigade would serve as the vanguard of the division's movement north to cut off a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard division at Basra.
Reconstituted 20 August 1921 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (later redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division, Special) Organized 1 September 1921 at Camp Harry J. Jones, Arizona; Inactivated 25 March 1949 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division, Special
Ground troop movements 24–28 February 1991 during Operation Desert Storm. As a major general, Yeosock commanded the 1st Cavalry Division from June 1986 to May 1988, having been the 1st Cav's Assistant Division Commander (ADC) as a brigadier general during REFORGER in 1983.
2nd Bn, 5th Cavalry Regiment (Mech) 1st Bn, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment (155SP) 2nd Brigade 1st Bn, 32nd Armor Regiment 1st Bn, 5th Cavalry Regiment (Mech) 1st Bn, 8th Cavalry Regiment (Armor) 3rd Bn, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment (155SP) Order of battle graphic showing VII U.S. Army Corps during Operation Desert Storm
Iraqi Type 69 tanks after an attack by the British 1st Armoured Division during Operation Desert Storm. The British 1st Armoured Division had traveled 217 miles in 97 hours. The British 1st Armored Division had captured or destroyed about 300 tanks [136] and a very large number of armored personnel carriers, trucks, reconnaissance vehicles, etc ...