Canada.... I cannot answer that question 100%, because I'm what we call a “lower ranker”—I fixed a helicopter—but in talking to other officers and stuff like that, our air force, towards the end of the war, was flying bombing runs, and that's written down. That's on DND or...I can't remember the site, but it's written that they started. I have pilot statements that even say the same thing. We've got that and we were in the Gulf, but we never turned around and fired a shot. My ship was a protective ship for the USNS Mercy, the hospital ship. We were protecting her while we were in the gulf, but there were other ships.
We went into minefields to bring out ships that had hit mines and couldn't turn a screw. We went in to get a ship out. When you ask about combat, we never had combat troops in there; we had a hospital for our injured. The only ones I knew were the pilots who flew bombing missions towards the end of the mission; plus, we had one who was shooting an Iraqi gun boat.