Iraq Surge Progress: Education For Girls Gets a Shot In The Arm - Computers and Internet!
Army Sgt. Amanda Timmer of the Wasit Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq, talks with students at the Kut Girls Secondary School after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Internet center March 10, 2008. The center features 10 new computers and furniture. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stacy Niles, USA Iraqi Girls’ School Gets Computers, [...]
Iraq: US Soldiers Assist Poultry Industry Rebound
Maj. Jessica McCoy, an Army veterinarian and member of Baghdad embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team 4, holds up a young chick belonging to an Iraqi poultry farmer. “Operation Chicken Run”, supported by the ePRT, is helping develop the intensive farming capacity and providing revenue alternatives to Iraqi farmers who have discontinued support for al-Qaeda and other [...]
Afghanistan: US Army Assists Opening Girls School
Dec. 26, 2007 - U.S. Army Capt. Jordan J. Berry, the Kapisa province civil affairs team leader for the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Koeja Ablebacker, governor of Kapisa province, cut a ceremonial ribbon during the opening ceremony of the Aftabachi Girl’s School in the Kapisa province of Afghanistan Dec. 26, 2007. DoD photo by [...]