Contains orders, other official records, and personal narratives obtained from more than 40 interviews to chronicle the unit history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment during the Persian Gulf War, and their use of the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) during that conflict.

Item has an accompanying 3.5" floppy disk (text on floppy disk label: " "STEEL RAIN" 3-27TH FA MLRS HISTORY By, CHARLES BISSETT (MS WORD 6.0) " ).

Author's prologue --"The alert" -- "Green Ramp" -- "The MLRS history" -- "Arrival of the advanced party" -- "Deploying the main body" & "Reflections in the window" -- "The arrival in Saudi Arabia" & "Fitz Fryzz" -- "Because, I love you" -- "The medical aspects of the deployment to the Persian Gulf" -- "My word, that's amazing!" -- "MLRS operations" -- "Organizing for the Storm" -- "NBC considerations during the Persian Gulf War" -- "Christmas stocking stuffers" -- "Ministry in the Gulf War" -- "Bonding into a team" -- "The mission, the soldiers" -- "Into the Storm" -- "The beans, bullets and Benzene Boys" -- "The men, the machine" -- "Storming the Euphrates River Valley" -- "Sand and smoke" -- "Lost and scared" -- "Objective Orange" -- "The Alpha avengers" -- "Tragedy" -- "Commanding MLRS" -- "Sir, what kind of mess did you get into this time?"-- "The Lieutenant's notes" -- "The Battle of Rumayalh" -- "Son, I'm proud of you" -- "The final effort" -- "On to Kobar Towers, and home" -- "Valorous Unit Citation" -- Appendix A "Offensive plans" -- Appendix B "Movement to the tactical assembly area" -- Appendix C "Equipment log" (to follow, at a later date.) -- Appendix D "The operation order" -- Appendix E "The enclosures to the operations order" -- Appendix F "Lessons learned from the Operations Officer" -- Appendix G "Lessons learned from the Executive Officer".