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Saudi Arabia, October, 1990: During the buildup that led to the 1991 Gulf War, American service members in Saudi Arabia got to know the terrain very well ... whether it involved marching across it, digging holes in it, filling sandbags with it, or clearing it out of every place the wind could deposit it.

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