Aug 31st, 2007
DVIDS
Photos and story by Sgt. Mike Pryor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs
“How’s business?” is the question on the tip of Capt. Albert Marckwardt’s tongue as he strolls through the main market of the Iraqi capital’s Adhamiyah District.
The answer, though, is evident all around him. Business in Adhamiyah is booming. The formerly [...]
United States Air Force
by Master Sgt. Dwayne Gordon, 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
Members of the 407th Expeditionary Services Squadron hosted the first ever Coalition Games Aug. 20 through 26 at Ali Base and Camp Adder, Iraq.
The week-long event gave American, Australian and Romanian forces friendly competitions in basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball, weightlifting, dodgeball, [...]
MNF-I
Coalition Forces captured two key suspects and five alleged associates during operations Thursday targeting senior leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq along the Tigris River.
Coalition Forces detained a suspected senior terrorist facilitator and one other individual during two coordinated raids near Samarra. The alleged facilitator also accompanied Coalition Forces to a prayer room next door [...]
MNF-I
Coalition Forces, acting on a tip from a local concerned citizen, discovered a large cache of nitric acid buried in drums near the town of Niam Mashawn, Aug. 28.
Soldiers of 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), out of Fort Drum, N.Y., received a tip that there [...]
Purple Heart
MNF-I
An 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper re-enlisted for four additional years of service from his hospital bed Aug 28, 2007, at Contingency Operations Base Speicher, Iraq, one day after a rocket-propelled grenade blast left him with two broken legs and shrapnel wounds to his back.
Spc. Clayton Allison, a fire support specialist, Company C, [...]
Aug 30th, 2007
Let’s recap for the late arrivals.
I lost job at end of 2006.
Wife hospitalized with congestive heart failure due to silent MI and high blood pressure at end of February.
Wife has stent implanted. Suffers 2 strokes.
Wife spends month in nursing home.
She slowly recovers.
I worked temp job in June.
Oldest cat dies August 1.
I began permanent job on [...]
Silver Star
Denver Post
Shot eight times, Sgt. Robert Betterton was pinned down by machine-gun fire in an Iraq irrigation ditch with rockets and hand grenades exploding around him. He thought his life would end there.
Then platoon leader Lt. David Tiedeman, using his handgun to provide a little cover fire, rushed to the ditch and jumped in [...]
Marine Corps
By Sgt. Andy Hurt, 13th MEU
NEAR KARMAH, Iraq (Aug. 25, 2007) — Using the term “Motivating Marine Corps day” in the morning is usually an indicator of sarcastic optimism throughout the ranks. Generally speaking, “motivating” can mean tired, frustrated and dirty. Rarely is the term prophetic.
Today, however, what began as a standard counterinsurgency patrol [...]
Two Afghan girls read a poem, pronouncing the governor’s emphasis on education during the Shura at Kher Khot Castle District Center, Afghanistan, July 11. (U.S. Army photo/Capt. Ashley Dellavalle)