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Powder-puff Football in Iraq

Powder-puff Football in Iraq

Football season is well underway and the cheers and roars on Friday and Saturday nights at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, belong to the women. The 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soulja Girlz is one of 10 Powder Puff football teams that play twice a week at JBB. Spc. Chanell Shropshire, supply clerk with the 13th ESC and a Jacksonville, Fla., native, said she and Cpl. Mariah L. Robins put the team together. “We sent out a mass e-mail for … Read entire article »

Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women, Sports

Soldier Catches Crooks Red Handed

As you’re driving home on any average day, you notice something amiss. Strangers are exiting your neighbor’s house carrying his expensive electronics and tossing them into the back of their car. What would you do? That’s exactly the situation faced by one Fort Hood Soldier back in mid-March and he went with his gut. Maj. Tim Walsh, 1st Medical Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), jotted down the license plate number and called the Copperas Cove Police Department, right away when he witnessed suspicious individuals carrying a large, flat-screen television to their car, without anything to shield it from the rain. “It just didn’t make sense, why would someone be loading a very expensive television into their car in that weather without covering it or anything. So I did what I think any responsible … Read entire article »

Filed under: Crime and Punishment, Military