Desert Storm & Gulf War Veteran Hats

Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The air campaign began on January 17, 1991, and the ground offensive that followed on February 24 lasted about 100 hours. Roughly 500,000 US combat troops took part, and the war carries two names: Gulf War for the whole conflict, Desert Storm for its air and ground phase. These Desert Storm and Gulf War veteran hats are written in the dry, rueful voice veterans use about it themselves, and the running gag is sand. A retired master sergeant remembers sand so fine it went straight through the drain holes of a jungle boot and filled it up, which is the whole joke behind OPERATION SAND IN EVERYTHING. Plain veteran hats with ribbon bars are sold everywhere, so the badges here cover that search first: DESERT STORM VETERAN, GULF WAR VETERAN and DESERT SHIELD DESERT STORM. The rest is the humor lane nobody else sells into, from the 100-hour ground war as a boast, to the claim of having liberated Kuwait, to a deadpan inventory of one Walkman and one rifle. This page is for the Desert Storm and Gulf War generation specifically, distinct from the general Veteran Hats, whose voice is DD-214 and 0500. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for yourself, or give one to the veteran in your family who has never been handed a funny hat.