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How’s Business?
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 run-down market is bustling. Merchandise spills out of the kiosks and stands, and the street is clogged with shoppers. For Marckwardt, who commands a Troop of Soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, responsible for security in the area, it’s an encouraging scene. “It’s like in the U.S. when we started to come out of the depression and everyone’s spirits were lifted. We’re starting to hit that kind of recovery period here,†the Columbia, Md., … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Coalition Games Held
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, a 10K run and a tug-of-war. Participants included teams from the Air Force, the 82nd Sustainment Brigade and 1/82 Battle Combat Team from the Army, the Navy, Romanian forces, Australian forces, and civilian contractors. The Coalition Games began with a basketball game between the Air Force and Australian forces and a softball game between the 82nd SB and Australian forces. The Air Force outscored the Australian forces 81-22 in basketball, while the 82nd SB blew past … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Military, Our Allies, War on Terror
Coalition targets al-Qaeda leadership
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 to search for additional targeted terrorists. The ground forces took great care while searching the area and departed without disturbing the prayer room. In the second raid, intelligence reports indicated a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was hiding in a nearby mosque, which was still under construction. Coalition Forces entered the mosque without using force and took great care in securing the building. One individual in an adjacent building was detained … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, War on Terror
Large Cache of Nitric Acid
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 was a large quantity of nitric acid near a checkpoint on Route Tampa, a major Iraqi highway. The cache site is located about 15 kilometers west of Baghdad International Airport. The man who reported the cache helped the Soldiers dig up 411 plastic jugs. Nitric acid is often used in making fertilizer and homemade explosives, commonly found in improvised explosive devices. The containers of acid were collected and removed to a secure location. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Wounded Paratrooper Re-enlists
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, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and native of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc., was injured when an RPG hit a bongo truck several meters from his patrol in Samarra. Col. Bryan R. Owens, commander for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, re-enlisted Allison and presented him with the Purple Heart hours before he was transported to Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center in Germany for further recovery treatment. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, War on Terror
Life As We Know It Today
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 August 13. New cat adopted August 18. The lovely wife saw the cardiologist last Monday. She had an echo-cardiogram first. Ejection fraction has gone from 15 to about mid-40′s. 55 is normal, so this is much improvement. Lung pressure has dropped from 50 to 30, normal. MD cut out the Lasix. If her BP goes up, and it could, she is to try taking the Diovan does from 160 to 320. We tried that about 6 weeks ago, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Me and Mine
Army National Guard 1st Lt. David J. Tiedeman
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 next to Betterton. “I tried to implore him to abandon me,” Betterton said. “I didn’t feel like he was sufficiently armed.” But Tiedeman would have none of it. “He told me, ‘I’m not going to leave you here,”‘ Betterton recalled. “‘I’m going to stay here with you and we’ll fight it out together.”‘ Both survived the wicked, close- range combat about 25 miles east of Baghdad on April 4, 2005. This week, Tiedeman, 40, an Army reservist from … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Iraq, Military, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
Payday!
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 in Al Anbar Province turned into a truly motivating day as Marines from Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion 1st Marines uprooted several large weapons caches, Homemade Explosives (HME) and a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device factory. Canvassing the remote desert region near Combat Outpost Chicago, Weapons Platoon Marines swept several routes and fields before a local citizen tipped them off and pointed them toward suspicious sites in the area. Conducting a search based on this lead, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Marines, Military, War on Terror
Afghan Children
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) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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