by Betty Stanley
Ozark County Times
“We need to win this war and we need to get it over with,” Butch Winslow says with fervor.
His former colleagues, nod, saying, “Yes,” and “That’s right!”
Winslow, Randall Vaught and Walter Goode got together Monday afternoon to recall the six months they spent in the Saudi Arabian desert during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Mention the sand storms currently hampering U.S. troops in Iraq, and they nod knowingly.
“It’s terrible,” Vaught says. “I remember sitting in our tent and not being able to see to the other side of it the sand and dust were so bad inside the tent.”
“Remember when it rained mud balls?” Goode says. They all chuckle and shake their heads, still in disbelief. “It rained during the sand storm and it rained mud balls,” he explains.
Vaught worked in company maintenance, which set up and maintained generators to provide electrical power for the company’s base camp.
Winslow and Goode worked on combat equipment.
