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Mass celebrated in a far away land
Soldiers assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, celebrated Catholic Mass at Combat Outpost Charkh here Dec. 10. This was the first Mass offered at COP Charkh since August due to the non-availability of a Catholic chaplain. “In the holy Mass, we receive spiritual strength from God to persevere,” said Spokane, Wash., native U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) James J. Peak, a chaplain assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Catholic Church, Military, Religion
Medic Treats Himself After Being Shot by Sniper
“I was probably two feet from my door of my truck when I heard gun fire and it felt like someone just cracked me in the right shoulder blade with a hammer,” said Spc. Matthew Mortensen of Olathe, Kan. The combat medic with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, was part of a presence patrol conducting a neighborhood search, Dec. 10, in an area historically known for weapons caches, rockets and mortars. As the patrol walked … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Extreme Make Over: Afghan Edition
What would it be like to go without computers, MP3 players and video games systems? How about upping the anté and adding air conditioning and light bulbs to the “off-limits list?” To most Americans, the thought of not having such modern day luxuries could be considered “cruel and unusual” punishment. However, for Afghans living in the rural, rugged mountainous areas, such modern amenities are found few and far between. Soldiers of Able Troop, 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Another Hero: Sgt 1st Class Jared C. Monti
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died in Gowardesh, Afghanistan, on June 21, 2006, when they encountered enemy forces using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades during combat operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. Killed were: Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti, 30, of Raynham, Mass. Staff … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Heroes, Jared Monti, Military, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror, WOT Heroes, WOT Medal of Honor
Tribal Truce Aids Afghan Peace Process
Every summer, the Kuchi tribe migrates through the Daymardad district of this central-Afghanistan province, allowing their animals to graze in the open pastures belonging to the Hazara tribe. This frequently has sparked violent territorial disputes. After hearing of the conflict, U.S. forces at Forward Operating Base Airborne approached Wardak Gov. Mohammad Halim Fidai about a peaceful way to resolve the fighting between the two tribes. “The mission was inspired from the age-old conflict between the Kuchi … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Humanitarian Assistance, Military, Rebuilding, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Life at the Front in Afghanistan
Next to a small village in Afghanistan’s fertile Jalrez Valley, a platoon of U.S. soldiers busy themselves fortifying a fighting position, stringing concertina wire, aiming mortars, and filling lots and lots of sand bags. “Apache,†a U.S. military combat outpost, is housed in an abandoned former district agricultural building. It is flanked by a school and medical clinic on its east. Villagers tend to an orchard that runs along its west side, and to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Clearing the Tangi: Task Force Takes Troubled Valley
Flexing for the first time the massive military muscle now deployed to this area, coalition forces cleared one of its most troubled insurgent hotspots, sending a forceful message to insurgent fighters here that the coalition will go wherever, whenever it wants. The three-day operation wrapped up yesterday and took hundreds of troops deep into the Tangi, a valley of narrow roads and steep cliffs that runs along the Logar River through the southeastern part of Wardak province opening into Logar province. The area has seen few coalition forces for the past eight months after a small U.S. military team was brutally attacked and four were killed there last summer. Shortly after the first few soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team arrived here in February, they sent a little larger … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Afghanistan Fight Turns to Economy + Governance
It’s hard to find a good, old-fashioned combat fight in Afghanistan right now — even here, surrounded by the battle-hardened, well-armed infantry and artillery troops of the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team. That’s partly because it is still winter and most insurgent fighters are holed up waiting for warmer weather, but also because the fight has changed across this rural landscape. Here in Wardak province, just south of Kabul, the fight is not so … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror
Married Couple Serve Together in Iraq
Deployment usually means packing up and leaving family behind for a year so that Soldiers can do important missions abroad. This is not the case for the Chief of Detainee Operations Capt. John Haberland, a Simsbury, Conn., native, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Mountain Division, and his wife Capt. Laura Haberland, a Seattle native, HHC, 10th Mtn. Div., chief of administrative law, who have been deployed together since May 2008. The couple met during their first week … Read entire article »
Filed under: Marriage in the Military, Military, Our Best: Military Women, Tenth Mountain Division
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