Navy Seal Dives into DKE

From the 2/5/10 issue of Yale Daily News...

Desert Storm seems hazy nowadays. But not to Joe Metzger ’11, a newly initiated brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

It was Metzger’s first night on the front of the Gulf War. The lieutenant stood before his group of Navy Seabees and said, “Gentlemen, tonight we’re going to war.”

“I was stationed at a sentry position on the perimeter of camp when the chemical warfare alarm went off. I put my suit on and I remember hyperventilating in my mask, struggling to get to the bunker. All I could think about was that my hands were melting. This was our routine for the next three months.”

Metzger recalls the tail end of Desert Storm when United Nations soldiers slashed and burned more than 700 oil wells. “It was an environmental catastrophe. The sky of Kuwait was blanketed with blackness with just a tiny sliver of light on the horizon. It was dark 24 hours a day. It was like a three-month dream.”

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