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Bassa Girls Primary School completed
U.S. Soldiers recently helped culminate an eight-month reconstruction project here with a ribbon cutting ceremony officially opening the Bassa Girls Primary School in Tal Jal near Kirkuk. Soldiers of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, “Outlaws” 1st Battalion, 37th Armor, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, out of Fort Bliss, Texas, along with the Hawijah District Council, conducted the ceremony presenting the school which will provide quality education for more than 50 young girls around this area, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
U.S. Troops train Kurdish Regional Guards
Peshmerga forces have been fighting side-by-side with U.S. forces since 2003, and select members of the 1st Kurdish Regional Guard Brigade started basic infantry training, run by U.S. troops at a headquarters in Laylan, near Kirkuk, Iraq, June 14. The training is being facilitated by their brothers-in-arms: Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, ‘Gunners’ 3rd Field Artillery, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division out of Fort Bliss, Texas. More than 50 KRGB non-commissioned officers and officers are participating … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Vikings cheerleaders visit MP’s at Camp Victory Iraq
Filed under: Cheerleaders, Iraq, Military, War on Terror
Renovated school brings Iraqi cheers
Cheers and laughter filled the air as students welcomed Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, as they entered their school, the same school that the Soldiers helped renovate over the past month. The cheers and celebration by the students were part of a ribbon-cutting and reopening ceremony held March 23, for nearly 100-year-old school. The 30-day project was part of a 1-36th Inf. Civil Affairs team mission to improve schools within the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Soldiers of Iraq families cared for by troops
Healthcare is a rare commodity in Iraq at times. Women and children can be the victims of that shortage. Here’s a feel good story of what we’re doing about that. The line of widows, wives, children, mothers and sisters of soldiers of the Sons of Iraq reached from their headquarters building in Hawijah, near Kirkuk, Iraq, all the way to the end of the road and each of them had a huge smile on their face. These … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Adding improvised self-defense skills for female soldiers
A group of petite female Soldiers laugh as their instructors, four much larger non-commissioned officers wince in pain from self-defense techniques they just taught these female Soldiers that could ultimately save their lives. These Soldiers, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division out of Fort Bliss, Texas, were the first to participate in a trail program that focuses on teaching the Soldiers self-defense so they can better defend themselves against an … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crime and Punishment, Military
Marines Win! Anbar province peaceful
The first major indicator of the responsible drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq occurred in Ramadi Jan. 23 when II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) transferred authority of Iraq’s largest province to 1st Armored Division. Before the ceremony, 1st Armored Division’s area of operations, as U.S. Division-Center, encompassed Baghdad and its surrounded communities. The historic transfer of authority ceremony, held at Camp Ramadi, extends the division’s reach throughout Al Anbar Province; a vast western landscape spanning more … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Marines, Military, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Al Majaar Al Kabir sugar factory to be refurbed
Escorting and assisting Provincial Reconstruction Team efforts to build up the civilian infrastructure is almost a daily task for many Soldiers deployed to Iraq, however, the project that members of Task Force Pathfinders participated in Dec. 18, could be considered extra sweet. Second Platoon, “B” Battery, 2nd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Pathfinders rolled out that day with eight members of the Department of Defense’s Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Military, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Humanitarian mission to Kirkuk
Three hundred Iraqi schoolchildren in the village of Faylaq, near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Iraq, were treated to a surprise donation of school necessities Dec. 22. In an effort to improve education in Kirkuk, Iraqi police and members of the Al-Atyah Women’s Organization, assisted by Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, attached to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, donated school supplies for children. This humanitarian mission was a part of a larger … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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