Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: E whitu marama i muri mai ka karangatia ano nga hoia parau o te 82nd Airborne Division ki te whawhai. E wha rā i muri i te
Ko te whakaekenga a Iraqi o Kuwait i te 2 o Akuhata 1990, ko te 4th Battalion (Airborne), 325th Infantry ko te Division Ready Force1 (DRF-1) me te kaha whenua tuatahi, i te korero a te Perehitini George Bush "Raina i te Onepu" ki a Saddam Hussein tetahi waahanga o te whakanoho nui rawa atu o nga hoia Amerika mai i Vietnam hei waahanga o te Operation Desert Shield. I tukuna tonu te 4<unk>325th INF ki Riyadh me Thummim Saudi Arabia. Ko ta raatau mahi ko te tiaki i te whanau kingi hei waahanga o te kirimana me Kingi Fahd ki te whakanoho hoia ki roto me nga taha o te rangatiratanga. Ko te DRF2 me te 3 (1<unk>325 me te 2-325 INF, respectively) i timata ki te tuhi i te "raina i roto i te onepu" tata ki al Jubail ma te hanga i nga whakangungu mo nga mahi whakahekenga pea. I muri tata mai, ka whai mai te toenga o te wehenga. I reira, ka tiimata te whakangungu kaha mo te whawhai ki te koraha ki te ope Iraqi tino patu patu.