March 4, 1998
Heavy rains ravage Kenya wreaking havoc on both civilians and the military forces on both sides as floods devastate the country, washing out roads and temporarily cutting the rail lines.
Unofficially,
The 2nd Platoon, 221st Ordnance Company (a unit of 21st TAACOM) in central Germany completes an update of a Peacekeeper Armored Car that arrived on the last convoy of reinforcements; the vehicle had previously been used for airfield security. The update includes applying camouflage paint, an engine overhaul and substitution of a M2 Browning .50-caliber machinegun for the captured Soviet DShK machinegun that had been added to the vehicle in Poland.
In fighting in Alaska, the paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division are reinforced by combat engineers of the 109th Engineer Group (Combat) (South Dakota National Guard), whose expertise in demolitions and destroying obstacles are expected to help in overcoming the dug-in Soviet troops on the University of Alaska campus. Elsewhere in the city, the gunners and ammo handlers of the 197th Field Artillery Brigade begin clearing isolated pockets of enemy resistance, acting as dismounted infantry after their howitzers shot off their last rounds.
Dutch troops infiltrated into the occupied zone launch another guerrilla attack on the occupiers, ambushing a supply convoy headed for the Eindhoven garrison.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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