Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
Two members of the 92nd Civil Support Team take a sample of a simulated hazardous substance in a Sparks, Nev., shopping mall during training Nov. 25, 2005. The Nevada National Guard’s civil support team was called to assist Las Vegas Metro Police on Feb. 28, 2008, with a suspicious substance that was later identified as [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
DVIDS
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
“The commandant wore it during a trip over there for Thanksgiving, and he absolutely did not like it,” Johnson said. “He made the call to not buy more until perhaps they find a way to mitigate the issues the troops are raising. That’s typical of our commandant. He listens to [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
CDC
During week 8 (February 17 - 23, 2008), influenza activity decreased slightly in the United States.
Two thousand three hundred twenty-one (30.0%) specimens tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories were positive for influenza.
The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
PERSIAN GULF (Feb. 25, 2008) Machinist Mate 3rd Class Stephanie Checa, left, and Machinist Mate 1st Class Robert Walton, help Machinist Mate 3rd Class Leslie Grant into her firefighting gear during the damage control portion of the shipboard indoctrination course aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). The course familiarizes newly [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
DVIDS
By Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Doheny
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Public Affairs Office
As Americans we should all know the inspiring story of our founding fathers and all the brave men who sacrificed everything to fight off oppression. Basically a bunch of farmers, blacksmiths, tailors, teachers and other ordinary men answered the [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
Oh, God, I’m about to say something nice about the New York Times. Do not adjust your set.
The Times’ Baghdad Bureau has a blog. It’s called Baghdad Bureau - Iraq From the Inside.
It appears to be an outstanding effort at a group blog. It’s full of information, pics, video, and links.
OK, now back to the [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
I do not need a new right shoulder. I merely need an oil change and a good tuneup.
My trip to the “shoulder doc” was amazing. If hospitals only worked this well.
I was taken in to an exam room promptly. The PA seeing me arrived within two minutes. I was x-rayed in the same area, digital [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
DVIDS
By Pfc. Jerry Murphy
Regimental Combat Team 1
In the early morning hours of Feb. 23, Marines of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, heard gunshots in the distance, which quickly escalated into a spontaneous gunfight.
The Marines located the source of the fire, after a short assessment of the situation, and [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
DVIDS
By Spc. Nathaniel Smith
4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs
Since 2003, people all over Iraq have been looking for signs of improvement in the establishment of essential services and the security necessary to return to a normal life.
On Feb. 25, they didn’t need to look any further than in Doura, known as the [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 29, 2008
DoD
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
U.S. officials decided last year that detainees held in coalition-run facilities in Iraq needed opportunities to voice their concerns and broaden their minds, rather than to just mark time, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today.
“The way detention operations used to be conducted here in [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2008
In 2003 the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team conducted the largest combat parachute assault since World War II. They were welcomed on the ground by thousands of cheering Kurds.
Now these guys are in Afghanistan. Matt at Blackfive describes their conditions:
The Sky Soldiers have trudged through up to seven feet of snow on patrols day in [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2008
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Army Sgt. Heather Slater, deployed from the 367th Military Police Company, Horsham, Pa., helps an Afghan boy Feb. 25 at the Egyptian Hospital here. Slater and several other servicemembers from the 724th MP Battalion visit patients at the hospital every Sunday. Slater, who’s been deployed to Afghanistan for eight months, is a [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2008
DVIDS
By 1st Lt. Lori E. Miller
1st Marine Logistics Group
A team consisting of five female Marines from the 1st Marine Logistics Group and two female interpreters conducted a census patrol in a nearby town, Feb. 23.
The Iraqi Women’s Engagement Team was able to meet and talk with the local Iraqi females without the men around.
