Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | January 9, 2009
Members of the Egyptian Army and Egyptian Air Force deploy to Afghanistan every six months to work with the Afghan people at the hospital. Since arriving in Afghanistan, the new staff has also improved the hospital by streamlining patient admission.
Chuck Simmins | January 8, 2009
The SoI have been in battle and have suffered because of it. In 2008, LTC Kulmayer reports about 500 were killed and about 750 wounded. Pay varies for the SoI, with those in Baghdad being paid $300 a month and those in al Anbar $130 monthly.
Chuck Simmins | January 8, 2009
A group of Afghan interpreters from FOB Salerno enthralled the audience with a traditional Afghan dance called attan, which is a common national dance at Afghan weddings and celebrations. Pfc. Geri Duenas, an administration specialist with the 4th BCT Headquarters and Headquarters Company, performed a dance from her native country of Guam.
Chuck Simmins | January 8, 2009
This tour wasn’t the first time Ruiz had seen Iraq. In 2003, he arrived with some of the first Coalition troops as a part of El Salvador’s Cuzcatlan Battalion in Al Kut. During this tour, he kept in touch with his old battalion and was able to visit them occasionally to share critical mission information and participate in official ceremonies.
Chuck Simmins | January 7, 2009
Maintaining pressure and dictating the pace has been the key theme for the Battle Group throughout the mission. The weather may be getting cold and wet, but the tempo remains high.
Chuck Simmins | January 7, 2009
The transfer is a major step toward restoring the rail service in Kirkuk province; the remaining task is to complete the final span of the Bayji Railroad Bridge linking the Kirkuk rail line with the Samarra-to-Bayji line.
Chuck Simmins | January 6, 2009
Approximately 50 kilos of heroin was seized at the Trebil Port-of-Entry after it was discovered concealed in a BMW sedan traveling from Iraq to Syria on Jan 2.
Chuck Simmins | January 6, 2009
Staff Sgt. Jason B. Cundiff, Master Sgt. Allen W. Kessinger, Staff Sgt. April D. Cogdill (formerly April D. Wade) and Spc. Sybil D. Austin graduated from the same high school over the span of about 14 years. Now they all serve in the same unit, Combined Joint Task Force-101.
Chuck Simmins | January 6, 2009
“We’ve done a couple of different things here in accordance with the belladiyah,” said Willoughby. “We’ve helped put in solar street lights and we’ve done some revitalization of the market area through micro grants. Then we looked at the school and decided to help out to provide a little bit of community pride and gain some community support.”
Chuck Simmins | January 5, 2009
With sufficient power, the more than two dozen physicians are now able to run basic services without disturbance, including laboratory equipment, refrigeration of medications and more complex neonatal incubators and echocardiograms, he explained.
Periodic stoppages throughout the day have long hindered treatment, particularly for inpatients. The 50-bed hospital is the primary inpatient facility in west Baghdad and serves more than 200,000 residents from Khadamiyah to Balad.
Chuck Simmins | January 5, 2009
Since August, approximately $1 million of GoI and Commander’s Emergency Relief Project funds have been poured into restoring and expanding the irrigation pump station, installing a dedicated electrical line and repairing the irrigation canals.
The results are clearly visible from the air. What was once brown, dry land now is green and lush and crops are thriving.
Chuck Simmins | January 3, 2009
“I was born in Kabul and moved to Australia when I was nine years old. Now I am an Australian soldier serving in Afghanistan, my fatherland,” he said. “It gives me a warm feeling that I can help to rebuild my country of birth after so many years of war and grief. The local people react positively when they learn that I from Afghanistan. They trust me immediately since I speak the language.
Chuck Simmins | January 3, 2009
“We completed the toughest training and became one of the best and most brave within the IP,” said the Iraqi officer in charge of the TRT during his address to the class during graduation.
