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Yesterday's Air Force: Secret Squirrel

By Air Force TV / Published January 21, 2016

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FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) – Operation Senior Surprise (Secret Squirrel) began the bombing campaign against Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. It kicked off Operation Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.

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