Looking for members who served at Log Base Yugo / Sierra an TAP line road between Al Qaysumah and Hafar Al-Batin from Ft. Lewis?

Thank you for the information but I’m not sure that it was a fatal accident. If it were, it would have been one of the British soldiers and after being evacuated from the scene. On Feb 18, 1991, I was a passenger in the CUCV, traveling west on the TAP line road, MSR Dodge, between Hafar Al Batn and Qaisumha being driven by Pfc. Ruiz (first name unknown) from the Ft. Lewis unit (513 TC?), when she began to make a left turn into our camp at LB Yugo/Sierra. In the process of slowing to begin the left turn, the driver, PFC Ruiz, engaged her left turn signal and began the left turn. During this time, two British soldiers, in a white civilian Nissan B2000 (?) pickup truck attempted to pass on the left and impacted our truck forward of the left rear tire well to the forward part of the driver’s door at such a high rate of speed that our truck was spun off to the right side of the road and down a ten foot embankment, settling approximately 35 yards from the point of impact facing South East. The small truck the British soldiers were in rolled multiple times and settled on its wheels facing South, approximately 35 yards South West of the point of impact.
After our truck stopped, PFC Ruiz was screaming. She had hit her head on the driver’s side door window. I quickly assessed her injuries and found a lump on the left side of her head. I calmed her down and got her out of the truck. I had suffered a bloody nose as well as rib injuries from the barrel of my M-16 rifle, neck injury due to the whiplash from the impact, and back injuries, as well as hitting my head several times on the passenger door, leaving me a little dazed. I Made it out of our truck and made my way to the overturned truck the British soldiers were driving to find that the passenger had been ejected through the passenger door and had the most severe injuries. The driver had some minor lacerations and bruises. I extricated him from the truck and then began a closer assessment of the passenger. He was in shock and had multiple deep lacerations as well as internal injuries and probable broken bones.
At this point, members from my section began to arrive on scene. We had no medic or medical equipment and was forced to act on my training from basic training in caring for the wounded. I instructed SPC. Victor Cruiz to begin treating the driver for shock by elevating his feet and loosening his belt. I also instructed him to get a blanket on the soldier and keep him warm and to begin a search for other injuries and to call them out to me as they were found for instructions. I also directed one of the squad members to keep the drivers head immobilized to prevent any other spinal cord injuries. I also directed them to check his pulse and respirations every two minutes and notify me of any changes.
My immediate concern was for the passenger who had been ejected from the vehicle. His injuries were severe and was bleeding profusely. I tried to control the bleeding with pressure bandages and treat for shock. I also had one of the squad members hold his head steady to prevent further spinal injuries. Approximately 20 minutes after the accident, a British doctor arrived on the scene and I transferred the care to the more highly qualified medical authority. The two soldiers were the evacuated by ground ambulance. The doctor stated that my quick action and knowledge is what saved the lives of their fellow countrymen and soldiers. Those words meant the world to me.
PFC Ruiz and myself were taken to a field hospital and had x-rays done. Both of us were battered and bruised, but in fair health following the ordeal.
Now, I find myself in a situation where I need to prove the incident occoured to help establish TBI while in service. This has been difficult to do since medical records from in theater were ordered destroyed below the brigade level, citing not enough room to ship them home. I have no idea what MP unit was in our AO at the time or if there is a record from their soldiers that arrived on scene. At the time, I was with the 2221st QMCO out of Arizona and the unit has been disbanded for decades. I have tried contacting the state for the unit log books but have had no success.

SSG Bob Klement - Sorry for making you dredge this up. Did they notify your next of kin that you were injured? If so there might be a record of that at the Army Casualty Assistance Operations Center.


The number of UK forces in theater was relatively small by our standards but anytime the Brits deploy its a big deal in the UK. They keep meticulous track of who as where and what happened to them. I got tasked in ISAF to research a green on blue incident from 2003/2004 in Afghanistan the MoD wanted answers on. You may be able to write to the MoD and see if they can match the information up with their records. Perhaps get a statement from the others in the accident.

If you send me a message through the RP email and give me your email address I can send you the casualty list I copied and pasted into MS Excel. There was only one US fatality on 18FEB91. A 1LT was killed in Saudi Arabia. Limits of the dB is that they don't have units or any really data aside from their country of death, full name rank home state and service.

Have you tried Together We Served to see if you can find the other from the incident? RP has spotty attendance. Here was the search off TWS for 2221QM CO. https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=70242

513TC has campaign credit for three phases of ODS. https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/trans/0513trco.htm

TWS Page: https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&ID=77684&type=Unit&page=2

Units in ODS (doesn't give tactical locations): http://www.desert-storm.com/soldiers/army.html

SSG Bob Klement - https://www.rallypoint.com/profiles/693617-sfc-rodney-belair
I looked at the 513 TC page on RP (did a unit search). SFC Belair was assigned as a Truck Driver to 513th 1990-1992. I did not see anyone else from the era. Little Before and a little after, but only this gentleman during.

LTC Jason Mackay my personal email address is [login to see] I just got home from the VA and will look more into the information that you sent me either this evening or tomorrow morning. Thank you for your help sir.