


“We’re more worried about, ‘Are we going to have something going on this weekend? Are we going to have a party?’ “īoth men later found jobs with the Spokane Police Department. “We’re in college,” said Meidl, who’s served as Spokane’s chief of police since September 2016. That included Hallock, an Olympia native enrolled at Washington State University in Pullman, and another reservist, 19-year-old Craig Meidl. The decision to deploy Marine reservists in the push to Kuwait City meant that a company headquartered in Yakima was sent into the desert. “I found it interesting that many of them were already being covered up by the sand,” he said. ABOVE: After the four-day battle, Brad Hallock and his company returned to the area where they’d been in conflict to see husks of destroyed Soviet tanks driven by the Iraqi soldiers.
