A/40th Field Artillery (MLRS) Rocket Firings
Video by
George "Bud" Onstad, then 3AD DIVARTY
Chaplain, showing A/40th FA in action on Feb
. 22,
1991, at the southern
Iraq border two days before the start of the ground advance into Iraq (
Operation Desert Storm).
Thanks also to former A/40th soldier
James Bryan Welch (1988-91) who in
2010 first informed us that the video existed. These were the first offensive artillery round(s) from the 3AD in the Gulf War, and the first fired by the 3AD since the end of
WWII. A/40th FA was assigned to
Francois Kaserne (across the street from DIVARTY HQ and the 4/82 FA) in
Hanau, Germany. The
108 rounds fired on Feb. 22 were of
M26 Rockets (each containing 644 sub-munitions of grenade-sized 'bomblets'). An A/40th tracked
MLRS launch-vehicle can be seen in a close and noisy drive-by in one clip. Video ed
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