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Following the Persian Gulf War in 1991, VA recognized the unique health challenges faced by Gulf War veterans. This led to regulatory expansions that established presumptive service connections for a range of undiagnosed illnesses and medically unexplained chronic multisymptomatic illnesses associated with service in the Southwest Asia theater ...
Feb. 26—A renewed call to create special license plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars remains alive under Senate Bill 2731, which was carried over from last legislative session.
Military leaders of the Gulf War (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Military personnel of the Gulf War" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The list includes the name, rank and regiment, corps or service of the recipient, the appointment they held at the time, the place and date of the action (although many awards were not made for specific actions), and (in brackets) the date of gazette of the award in the London Gazette. All were gazetted on 29 June 1991 unless otherwise indicated.
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides support to Gulf War vets without the need for direct link between their illnesses and their service time
Four former service personnel told the PA news agency about coping with PTSD and depression, and said professional help turned their lives around. Gulf War veterans urge others to seek help, 30 ...
The war is also known under other names, such as the Second Gulf War (not to be confused with the 2003 Iraq War, also referred to as such [27]), Persian Gulf War, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War [28] [29] [30] [b] before the term "Iraq War" became identified with the 2003 Iraq War (also known in the US as "Operation Iraqi Freedom"). [31]
Then-Lt. Col. John Abizaid speaking with some Kurds in Northern Iraq during Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to ...