‘Screaming Eagles’ to Go Home Early
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2008 – About 3,000 soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team will leave Iraq nearly two months earlier than planned, military officials said.
Improved security and decreased violence across the unit’s area of operations in northwestern Baghdad is [...]
DoD Identifies Army Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the death of nine soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died of wounds suffered when their outpost was attacked by small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades from enemy forces in Wanat, [...]
Staff Sgt. Christopher Demarsico, a gunnery sergeant with 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), keeps a close eye on an Iraqi civilian while standing guard in front of the city council building in Ad Dujayl, Iraq. The artillery men from the 2-320th FAR began executing a [...]
05/31/2008 - A group of Iraqi children look on as a U.S. Soldier from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 6th Infantry Division, assigned to Task Force Regulars practices balancing a plate of bread on his head in the Jameela market area of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, May 31, 2008. DoD photo by Tech. [...]
Iraqi army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 43rd Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division, conduct a cordon and knock clearing operation in the Jihad community of the Rashid district in southern Baghdad. The IA jundi planned, coordinated and conducted the operation with the leaders and Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat [...]
Capt. Erik Oksenvaag, a Seattle native, talks with 1st Lt. Ryan Poole, a Pasadena, Calif., native, during a mission in the Thawra 2 neighborhood of the Sadr City district of Baghdad May 11. Oksenvaag commands Company C, Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division which is currently attached [...]
U.S. Army Soldiers react to a mortar blast while searching for weapons caches in northwest Shulla, Iraq, May 16, 2008. During the search, the Soldiers were harassed by small arms and mortar fire. The Soldiers are from Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. (U.S.Army photo/Spc. Charles W. Gill)
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2008 – The Defense Department today announced force rotations for Iraq and Afghanistan, including upcoming active-duty deployments later this year and alerts to Army National Guard units to deploy in spring 2009 and 2010.
About 25,000 active-duty troops assigned to a division headquarters and seven brigade combat teams [...]
1st Lt. Aaron Kletzing, a Chicago native, ensures the impact zone is clear on April 26 before the firing of an Excalibur round from a M777 Howitzer on Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad. Kletzing is the fire support officer for Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th [...]
A U.S. Army soldier examines the contents of a bag from a discovered weapons cache outside Abu Thayla, Iraq, on April 13, 2008. Iraqi National Police and U.S. Army soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division discovered and seized 29 120-mm mortar rounds, over 500 mines, seven Chinese 107-mm [...]
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