Cika wannan jumla: A watan Agustan 1990 lokacin da
Kuwait ta mamaye Iraqi, USS "Saratoga" yana cikin Bahar Rum kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya shiga cikin Bahar Maliya. VF-103 da VF-74 sun yi aiki tare don haɓaka dabarun yaƙi waɗanda suka kasance a lokacin Yakin Gulf. Lokacin da yakin ya fara a watan Janairun 1991, VF-103 ya jagoranci jagorancin jirgin sama na jirgin sama na jirgin sama, bincike da kuma kimanta lalacewar bam da kuma hare-haren iska. A rana ta huɗu na yaƙin, yayin da yake kan aikin rakiyar, an harbe VF-103 F-14A + ta abin da aka yi imanin cewa SA-2 "Guideline" surface-to-air missile ne. Bayan ya tsallake daga jirginsa, jami'in Radar Intercept, Laftanar Larry Slade, sojojin Iraki sun kama shi kuma an tsare shi a Baghdad a matsayin POW har zuwa karshen yakin. Matukin jirgi, Laftanan Devon Jones, ya sami damar kauce wa kamawa kuma, bayan sa'o'i takwas a cikin yankin abokan gaba, rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Amurka ta ceto shi.