The First U.S. Navy Ship to be Attacked by Japan

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Operation Golden Pheasant - 88

I was in the 82d ABN at the time and on a major field exercise. They yanked us out of the woods and off we went after picking up our war stock (ammo, MRE's, etc). We had no idea where we were going at that point. That was of course before cell phones, so there were a lot of pissed off families when there husbands/wives didn't show up at home a couple of days later.

Command would not tell them where they were, but by that time it was on the news so they had a good idea where we were. Kind of hard to keep a secret when a half of a Division disappears overnight.

Same thing happened for Desert Shield.