Monthly Archive for February 2009

Spc. Janet McMahon (left), a lab technician with the 47th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, prepares to take blood for testing from Spc. Amanda San Nicolas

Despite her hard work and determination, McMahon didn’t expect to beat out three other Soldiers’ and go this far in the Soldier of the Year. Her original intention for attending the Soldier of the Month boards was to practice for promotion boards.

If she wins the “Iron Brigade” Soldier of the Year competition, she’ll continue on the 1st Armored Division Soldier of the Year in Wiesbaden, Germany and then the United States Army Europe competition in Heidelberg, Germany.

Other amenities constructed on the orphanage site include a playground, swimming pool, soccer field, guard house, administration building, garden lot, exterior water tanks and parking lot.

Merlin sleeping well

Here are a few articles I’ve written on feline topics.

Tea Party News and Views

Here is a list of places to see the results from today’s Tea Parties, and to follow up on those activities.

Tea Party Video

Video about the Tea Party movement

national-tea-party

Here is a list of online resources for the growing revolt against the stimulus package, the proposed government fix for those not paying their mortgages, pork busting, and other government waste issues.

Surprise! The AP seems to have gotten its story about Army Emergency Relief a little wrong.

The clinic provides nearly 500 residents from six surrounding village’s access to a medical facility and the medical services of a staff of three full-time doctors. The location of the clinic also increases the chances of survivability by providing people in a community, where vehicular transportation is scarce, access because of the clinic’s central location. Access results in more immediate care, so patients can be stabilized before they are moved to another medical facility, if more specialized care is necessary.

Sgt. 1st Class Maria Estrada conducts mock-door training prior to the brigades Joint Force Entry Exercise on Jan. 29. Mock door training is to help familiarize Paratroopers with the door of the aircraft before a jump.

Some of the Soldiers that she initially trained were staff sergeants by the time she crossed paths with them again.

“I’m proud that they have been so successful.”

Her Soldiers aren’t the only ones who’ve been successful in their Army careers, on January 29, Estrada, a two time Iraq veteran, completed her sixty-fourth jump and achieved the highest level of success that a Paratrooper can reach, Master Parachutist.