Oct 31st, 2008
The project serves two purposes: to provide better visibility for Marines who occupy an observation post on the road and to make the area look more normal for the local Iraqis, said Staff Sgt. Bryan Spencer, platoon sergeant, Operations Platoon, Engineer Company, CLB-5.
“We’re going all the way down this road to get rid of all the berms and get it looking nice again,” said Spencer, from Texarkana, Texas.
Australian Maj. David Bergman, Mine Action Center officer in charge, and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jayson Blunck, MAC operations non-commissioned officer, stand with village elders over a tunnel that allows Coyote Creek to run under the flightline at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2008. The elders were invited to the base to examine the status of the creek, which causes simultaneous floods and droughts in nearby villages.
The folks in Dallas got an early Halloween treat today when two earthquakes rattled the city.
Insurgents began using the region as a transit area and the community could do little to prosper, but coalition forces and Iraqi security forces have recently had success in rooting them out.
“The security provided by the Iraqi army battalion and Iraqi police in the Tri-Cities has laid the foundation for real progress,” said Gunnery Sgt. Jayson Franco, 4th Platoon commander with Mobile Assault Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, and security adviser to Iraqi security forces in the area.
Oct 30th, 2008
Here’s a nice story of a Royal Marine hero.
I think — well, one of the things that I was able to do was to go in and to talk with some of the — some of the rebel leaders.
“I’m so pleased; our kids aren’t able to go many places because of the security situation. I am so pleased that we have such a park in our neighborhood,” said Aum Achmed, who was there with her daughter and a niece. “It’s important for every kid to have a place to go to.”
Renovations to a government office building to improve services offered to residents of Muhallahbiyah, a village outside of Mosul, are scheduled to be completed Oct. 31.
A former nurse in Vietnam has been recalling the time she treated one of the men now running for the White House, John McCain, after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam war.