WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.

The official tells The Associated Press that Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The official wasn't authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.

He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in his last military assignment as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. That is the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan.

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Godspeed soldier

I still remember the news conference when he openly spoke of his plan for the Iraq war. "First we are going to cut them off, then we are going to kill them."


RIP

Stormin Norman - Rest In Peace - A Real American Hero

A week or so ago I saw a clip of the General talking to a bunch of high school students about courage on the battlefield.

He was an inspiring leader.