Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kodayake yakin Vietnam shi ne yaƙin farko wanda sojojin sararin samaniya suka goyi baya, ana kiran Yakin Gulf a wasu lokuta a matsayin yaƙin sararin samaniya na farko saboda muhimmiyar rawar da sojojin sararin samaniya suka taka wajen tallafawa sojojin ƙasa, iska, da na ruwa. Kafin yakin Gulf, yawancin sojojin sararin samaniya sun mai da hankali kan dabarun dakile nukiliya, ba a kan goyon baya ga sojojin dabaru ba. Sojojin sararin samaniya, musamman dakarun sadarwa na tauraron dan adam, sun kasance suna ba da tallafi ga sojojin dabaru a lokacin yakin Falklands na 1982, mamayewar Amurka ta Grenada a 1983
, kuma ya ba da bayanan tsara aikin lokaci na ainihi don buga jirgin sama a cikin fashewar bam na Amurka a Libya a shekarar 1986. Amfani na farko na Navstar Global Positioning System ya faru ne a cikin 1988 Operation Earnest Will, kuma yayin mamayewar Amurka na Panama, Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Sama ta ba da sadarwa ta hanyar Tsarin Sadarwar Sadarwar Sadarwa da kuma tallafin yanayi ta hanyar Shirin Tsaro na Tsaro na Tsaro. Akasin haka, Yakin Gulf ya yi amfani da dukkanin rundunonin sararin samaniya na Amurka, tare da sama da tauraron dan adam sittin da ke samar da kashi 90 cikin 100 na hanyoyin sadarwa da umarni da sarrafawa ga rundunar sojoji 500,000, tallafin yanayi ga masu tsara ayyukan, gargadi na farko game da harin makamai masu linzami na Iraqi Scud, da tallafin kewayawa ga sojojin ƙasa.