US boosts military build-up in Gulf
1996 - US troops flew into Kuwait and a second American aircraft carrier entered the Gulf to boost a military build-up aimed at deterring trouble from Gulf War foe Iraq. About 230 soldiers from the US Army 1st Cavalry Division, some looking jet-lagged, prepared scores of tanks, armoured vehicles and self-propelled howitzer artillery guns at an arsenal north of Kuwait City after a long flight from Fort Hood base in Texas.