page_title: General Order No. 1 (Gulf War)
section_title: Other provisions
hierarchical_section_title: General Order No. 1 (Gulf War) / Other provisions
caption_attribution_description: English: From May 1989 to May 1991, Dunwoody served as executive officer and later division parachute officer for the 407th Supply and Transportation Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, at Fort Bragg and deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm.
context_page_description: General Order No. 1 was a general order issued by General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. to United States Central Command in the Middle East during the Gulf War. The order contains provisions restricting the behaviour of troops and was intended to show respect to the laws of Saudi Arabia where many US troops were deployed. The order, for the first time in the US Army, prohibited the possession, manufacture, sale or consumption of any alcoholic beverage. It also restricted the possession of "sexually explicit" material, which was broadly defined and led to relatively innocuous documents such as underwear catalogues and body-building magazines being banned. A ban on the taking of war trophies from Iraqi prisoners was later amended to permit US troops to retain captured bayonets as souvenirs. The order influenced those issued in later campaigns, many of which also include bans on alcohol consumption even where US troops are not deployed in Muslim countries.
context_section_description: Other provisions of the order included prohibition of personal firearms and gambling (including pools, lotteries and raffles).  The removal of archaeological artifacts was also prohibited as was exchanging  money at anything other than the official Saudi government rate.  The final provision prohibited the collection of war trophies and noted that all captured Iraqi military equipment was to be considered property of the US government, though exceptions were made for hats, shirts, belts, insignia, canteens, mess equipment, helmets and ammunition pouches.  After the liberation of Kuwait led large amounts of equipment to fall into US hands this prohibition was repeatedly questioned and the dissent led to the only change to any part of the general order during the war when Schwarzkopf permitted US personnel to take Iraqi bayonets as souvenirs.
  Although not part of the general order, female US personnel were required to wear "modest" dress and avoid walking with or sharing a car with a man other than their husband.  Public displays of affection were also prohibited.  These restrictions were variable depending on location, they were strictest in urban areas, within the United Arab Emirates and within Oman but were relaxed in areas with few Saudi nationals present.  In spite of the restrictions the sight of American women driving military vehicles led to Saudi women holding driving protests against the laws that prevented them from driving.
caption: Ann E. Dunwoody, a female officer of the US Army in Saudi Arabia during the war
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