The USAF F-15 Eagle had responsibility for overland Combat Air Patrol ( CAP ) duties in Desert Storm in 1991, primarily because of the onboard F-15 IFF capabilities.

He served as Head of the Cruiser-Destroyer Combat Systems Requirements Section and Force Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer for the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, and he directed the Joint Staff's Crisis Action Team for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

* Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod

The plan requires the helicopters to meet six United States Air Force aircraft – three special operations MC-130E Combat Talon I penetration / transport aircraft and three EC-130E Hercules – on the ground at the secret " Desert One " airstrip inside Iran for refueling.

The site, named Desert One, was to be used as a temporary airstrip for the three USAF special operations MC-130E Combat Talon I penetration / transport aircraft and three EC-130E Hercules, each of the latter equipped with a pair of collapsible fuel bladders containing 6, 000 U. S. gallons of jet fuel.

There have also been secondary mods for Desert Combat, such as Desert Combat Extended, Desert Combat Realism, and Desert Combat Final, which modify gameplay and add new content such as additional armies and features.

When Trauma Studios was purchased by DICE, some of the Desert Combat team chose not to join DICE and continued on to make Desert Combat Final, an update to Desert Combat.

For Desiderio's handling of " flattened relief " we must turn to his panel of Saint Jerome at Prayer in the Desert ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ) or his tondo of the Meeting of Christ and John the Baptist as Youths ( Louvre Museum, Paris ).

* Saint Jerome in the Desert ( c. 1461 )-marble relief, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

* St. Jerome in the Desert, marble relief, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

These films include: Tarzan's Desert Mystery ( 1943 ), one of the chapters of the Superman serial ( 1948 ), Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Two Lost Worlds ( 1950 ), The Lost Volcano ( 1950 ; Bomba, the Jungle Boy series ), the American version of Godzilla Raids Again, Jungle Manhunt ( 1951 ; Jungle Jim series ), Smoky Canyon ( 1952 ), the Yesterday's World episode of The Schaefer Century Theatre, Untamed Women ( 1952 ), Robot Monster ( 1953 ), The Lost Planet ( 1953 ), King Dinosaur ( 1955 ), Three Stooges's Space Ship Sappy ( 1957 ), Teenage Cave Man ( 1958 ), She Demons ( 1958 ), Valley of the Dragons ( 1961 ), Journey to the Center of Time ( 1967 ), Horror of the Blood Monsters ( 1970 ; the stock footage was tinted in color for this film ), the Mexican films Island of the Dinosaurs ( La Isla De Los Dinosaurios ; 1967 ), Adventure at the Center of the Earth ( Aventura al centro de la tierra ; 1966 ), and The Ghost Jesters ( Los fantasmas burlones ; 1964 ), One Million AC / DC ( 1970 ), TerrorVision, and Attack of the B Movie Monster ( 1989 ).

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.

The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

In the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, many of which antedate the fourth century, there is frequent evidence of individual anchorites possessing in book-form collections of the Psalms.

This then is our earliest evidence of monks praying the Psalms as the main part of their daily scripted and Scriptural prayer regimen: the Desert Fathers.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert.

The Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally | Cholistan Jeep Rally is held in the city every year in the Cholistan desert

Transmontane chaparral features xeric desert climate-not Mediterranean climate habitats, and is also referred to as Desert chaparral.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

* Opuntia phaecantha, Desert prickly pear ( fruit is important food source for animals )

Nearby is also the semi-arid area known as the Accona Desert.

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.

They were best known for having created Desert Combat, a mod for Battlefield 1942.

* 760: 959-1114 Palm Springs / Palm Desert, CA ( Current for all GTE CA switches )

13 games were announced for the system's launch, including Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position II, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Desert Falcon, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, Xevious, Food Fight, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus !, and Track and Field.

Commented assembly language source code was made available for Centipede, Commando, Crossbow, Desert Falcon, Dig Dug, Food Fight, Galaga, Hat Trick, Joust, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Stunt Cycle, Robotron: 2084 and Xevious game titles.

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

* Ceanothus greggii, Desert ceanothus, California Lilac ( a nitrogen fixer, has hair on both sides of leaves for heaat dissipation )

* Cercocarpus ledifolius, Curl leaf mountain mahogany, a nitrogen fixer important food source for Desert bighorn sheep

During Desert Shield, the U. S. Navy sortied additional carriers to augment the on station assets eventually maintaining six carriers for Desert Storm.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

The 8th Army had advanced across the Western Desert from the east and was ready for the start of the Tunisia Campaign.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

It is in the Negev Desert, therefore it has a desert climate with low humidity for most of the year and little precipitation.

The Western Desert covers an area of some 700, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area.

The Eastern Desert has some petroleum resources in the north, a center for which is at Ras Gharib on the Gulf of Suez coast.

* 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

To the south, in what is now the Sahara Desert, nomadic hunters and herders roamed a large, well-watered savanna that was abundant in game and provided pastures for their livestock.

This publicity would pale in comparison to the attention that the Humvee received for its service in Gulf War Operation: Desert Storm, the following year.

* 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

* Mario Kart 64, a video game for the Nintendo 64 features a racetrack called Kalimari Desert

In the late fourth century the Desert Father Pachomius expected literacy of a candidate for admission to his monasteries:

In the beginning, in Syria and then in Egypt, Christians felt called to a more reclusive or eremitic form of monastic living ( in the spirit of the " Desert Theology " for the purpose of spiritual renewal and return to God ).