About
Bacil Donovan Warren is an author and military veteran. After serving with the US Army Europe’s 3rd Armored Division as a tank gunner and loader, he deployed as a loader on an M1A1 tank with the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment from Ft. Bliss, TX for Operation Desert Shield. Later, he served his community as a Paramedic and a CPR instructor before becoming a full-time author.
Donovan currently lives in Tucson, AZ.
Featured Work
With It or in It: Desert Shield and Desert Storm from the Loader's Hatch
With It or in It tells a compelling story of the 1991 Persian Gulf War as seen from the loader's hatch of an M1A1 tank.
Author Bacil Donovan Warren shares his personal experience--as well as that of his fellow tankers--as part of the US Army's 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment (the "Brave Rifles") in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Warren recounts the initial shock of hearing about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and his Regiment's preparation for deployment during Operation Desert Shield. He describes the stress and sometimes mind-numbing boredom of being deployed deep in the desert of Saudi Arabia, constantly preparing for a possible Iraqi invasion. He recalls the terrifying experience of the start of the air war of Operation Desert Storm, and the workmanlike action during combat against Iraq's Republican Guard forces during Operation Desert Sabre. With It or in It provides clarity, focus, and visceral honesty to the efforts of the coalition's tank crews--among others--to bring the conflict to a swift and decisive end. Finally, Warren describes the triumphant return of the Brave Rifles to Ft. Bliss, Texas, and the waiting arms of their families and loved ones.
Other Works
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Universus Respondet: Fermi's Paradox Answered—a Novel
2018