In the Center of Action-Updated

Colonel H.R. McMaster, whom I discussed earlier, led tanks in the first wave of Operation Desert Storm as Captain of Eagle Troop, according to this:

His troop led the armored advance into Iraq, driving in advance of the main armored divisions across miles of desert in a traditional cavalry scouting role.This was the drive popularized by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as the "Hail Mary" attack, in which mobile armored divisions swept around Kuwait deep into eastern Iraq to take on the Iraqi Republican Guard divisions based near the port city of Basra.Eagle Troop's mission was to find the Republican Guard - elite armored units of the Iraqi army. The troop did just that.In a short, but fierce tank battle, Eagle Troop took on and destroyed a larger force of Republican Guard tanks after McMaster, having sized up the Iraqi force, decided to attack in order to maintain the element of surprise.In the 20-minute battle, the 10 M-1 tanks and 13 Bradley fighting vehicles of Eagle Troop destroyed 28 Iraqi tanks and 16 armored personnel carriers, as well as a number of trucks.

Update-Col McMaster was featured in Tom Clancy's 10 yr old book Armored Cav, and is a published author. His works include Dereliction of Duty .