<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a>: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Desert Storm">Operation Desert Storm</a> begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk">F-117</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Scott Speicher">LCDR Scott Speicher's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet" id="mwATQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet">F/A-18C Hornet</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-81" id="mwATU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="VFA-81">VFA-81</a> is shot down by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25" id="mwATY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25">Mig-25</a> and is the first American casualty of the War. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" id="mwATc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> fires eight <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud" id="mwATg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Scud">Scud</a> missiles into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" id="mwATk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Israel">Israel</a> in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.