Desert Storm Trading Cards...

[Badbird]

So I found these gems when I was packing up to move into a new apartment. These were from the first Gulf War and a pretty good example of how we treated that whole thing like a cartoon.

I mean... trading cards? WTF?

http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/4/5/22/badbird/f_DesertStormm_06895bd.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/5/22/badbird/f_DesertStormm_06895bd.jpg&srv=img28)

[Vong]

I remember my parents went to Detroit 3 summers ago and bought me a set of playing cards, the one given to the U.S. military troops in Iraq to help identify the high ranking officials with Saddam Hussein being the Ace.

It's remarkable how a violation of international law can turn into a game...

[jolanar]

Well you gotta remember trading cards were fucking huge in the nineties especially the early nineties.

[free]

I remember buying baseball card packs that had little flag cards in them talking about Gulf War 1.

[Homyrrh]

I remember my parents went to Detroit 3 summers ago and bought me a set of playing cards, the one given to the U.S. military troops in Iraq to help identify the high ranking officials with Saddam Hussein being the Ace.

It's remarkable how a violation of international law can turn into a game...
You have to enforce images on 18-yr. old kids somehow.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Is the Norman Schwarzkopf rookie card the equivalence of the Michael Jordan rookie card?

[Homyrrh]

Schwarzopf was a rookie before Vietnam...not sure second lieutenant grunts got playing cards. But if they did, fuck MJ, I want a Stormin' Norman.