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Remember Kosovo? the U.S. Army Effort That Began Our Involvement
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The opening phase of Operation Joint Guardian seems long ago, more so because so much has happened since. Photographs of soldiers wearing woodland-pattern battle dress uniforms (BDUs) look dated. It likely was the last major operation conducted BDUs. Most of the Humvees weren't armored, and Army vehicles were painted green, which also seems dated. The white letters KFOR had been hastily painted on their sides.
It was Kosovo in the summer of 1999. Crowds cheered American convoys. Kids waved. There was a sense of welcome for American soldiers, but the celebrations masked continuing ethnic violence as Albanian Kosovar refugees returned to take revenge on Serbian neighbors who had …
