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Eddy Nicklaus - Gulf War

Eddy Nicklaus served with the Marines in South Vietnam in 1965. In 1982, he joined a Rock Falls, Illinois National Guard unit and in 1990 the 1644th Transportation Company was mobilized during the build-up for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The unit drove into the western deserts of Iraq in support of U.S. ground troops.