During Operation Desert Shield the United States Army sent several hundreds of thousands of men and women to the Saudi Desert as part of the Coalition which would eventually liberate Kuwait. Some of these soldiers were Air Defense Artillerymen. Secrets and Scuds focuses on one of these units, "B" Battery, 2nd Battalion 1st ADA, as it is put on a war footing at Fort Bliss, TX, travels to the Middle East, and uses its Hawk surface-to-air missile system to help create an impressive network of antiaircraft systems in the region. What was not revealed at the time was that 2-1 ADA was equipped with...

Presented here for the first time is James D. Crabtree's collection of Buster's Battery cartoons, as seen in the Fort Bliss Monitor. If you love military humor then you won't want to miss Buster, Beaker, Wendy, Sergeant Enigma and others in their adventures in Air Defense Artillery.