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Seven months after Operation JUST CAUSE, the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division were again called to war. Six days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, on 2 August 1990, 2/325th Airborne Infantry Regiment was the initial ground force, as President George Bush's "Line in the Sand" speech to Saddam Hussein part of the largest deployment of American troops since Vietnam as part of Operation DESERT SHIELD. The first unit to deploy to Saudi Arabia was the division's Deployment Readiness Force 1 (DRF 1) a task force of the division's 1st Brigade Task Force. Soon after, the rest of the division followed. There, intensive training began in anticipation of desert fighting against the heavily armored Iraqi Army.
On 16 January 1991, Operation DESERT STORM began when Allied war planes attacked Iraqi targets. As the air war began, elements of the 82nd initially deployed in the vicinity of the oil facilities outside Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. In the coming weeks,the 1st Brigade moved north to "tap line road" in the vicinity of Rafha, Saudi Arabia. The ground war began almost six weeks later. On 23 February, the vehicle-mounted 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers protected the XVIII Airborne Corps flank as fast-moving armor and mechanized units moved deep inside southern Iraq. The 325th Parachute Infantry Regiment acted as the division's spearhead for the ground war who actually took positions over the Iraqi border 24 hours in advance of coalition forces at 0800hrs on 22 February 1991. In the short 100-hour ground war, the 82nd drove deep into Iraq and captured thousands of Iraqi soldiers and tons of equipment, weapons, and ammunition. After the liberation of Kuwait, the 82nd redeployed to Fort Bragg mostly by the end of April.
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