War. What is war some may ask? William Orville Hickok describes it as “terrible” and hard to explain to someone “that has never been there before”. Try to imagine standing in the desert alongside your best friends when hundreds and hundreds of rockets, called MLRS , go flying over your head and explode. The sound is so powerful that it breaks the sound barrier, which sends a chill up and back down your spine. When you hear it, it sounds like thunder that has traveled from one end of the sky to the other. Not only would these rockets launch like a space shuttle headed for the moon, but they would light up the sky like a sunrise. It humbles you to think that those roaring and deafening weapons, in a matter of seconds, had the potential to kill thousands of people. You just stand in awe, thinking to yourself, “Thank God I’m on the right side of those missiles.”. Well, Major William Orville Hickok, only 19 years old at the time, did just that as a soldier during Desert Storm. This experience was one in a lifetime for him and will forever stay with him. This is just one of the many things that made this war special, different, and one to remember for Hickok, and many like him, during Desert Storm. William Orville Hickok grew up in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, with one older and one …show more content…
In order to prepare for this diverse fighting climate and different atmosphere, they trained in the Mojave Desert in The National Training Center, which Hickok describes as a “huge place” probably as large as “York and Lancaster counties combined”. The main idea of The National Training Center was to get each unit out into the desert where they could focus on just getting “good at your job”. This concept was around “ten or twelve years before Desert Storm”, Hickok mentions, which made our Army very well equipped to attack Hussein's Army. Hickok illustrates