America's North Shore Journal

A renovated sports club reopened in Baghdad’s Hai Al-Adel community Dec. 3. A few months ago, the Al-Adel Sports Club was an old run-down building with only one functional weight room. Coalition forces and local contractors decided to reconstruct the gym using the Commanders Emergency Relief Fund. “The Al-Adel Sports club was a pretty run down building, it had holes in the walls, in the ceilings, all the glass was in pretty bad shape and the only thing in use was the weight room,” said Capt. Kelly Lanphere, 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, attached to 2nd (Heavy) Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. “It just needed a lot of stuff, in fact, more than we could provide. We chose to … Read entire article »