(Photo by By Sgt. John Stimac. 139th public affairs)
Transportation Soldiers escort local nationals to work at JBB recycling yard
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An Iraqi worker, contracted by the United Mandour Company, loads wood onto a truck Feb. 1 at the recycling yard at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The pallets will be resold or reused in nearby villages. The jobs and supplies help boost the local economy and further the partnership between U.S. forces and the Iraqi people. - (Full Story) |
(Photo by Pfc. Lisa Cope, 139th MPAD, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary))
Service members, third country nationals come together at Oasis dining facility
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Sgt. Ronald O. Kirby, a food service noncommissioned officer with the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), shows how the warehouse in Oasis dining facility at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, is organized, Feb. 2. - (Full Story) |
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Mississippi Guardsman embodies Army Value of integrity
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CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Sgt. Eric S. Pettis (left), a native of Oxford, Miss., and non-commissioned officer in charge of water mission-planning and container management for the Mayor Cell, and Command Sgt. Maj. Perry Campbell, a Senatobia, Miss., native, receives a command sergeant major award for embodying the Army value of integrity.
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Son of singing preacher-man finds time to rhyme
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Spc. Shanesel Dawson, a Shreveport, La., native, and the Nuclear Biological and Chemical noncommissioned officer in charge for 1083rd Transportation Company, 264th Combat Support Supply Battalion, 15th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), out of Minden, La., studies poetry during his spare time while working at the company post office.
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Division returns from Iraq
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Maj. Gen. Daniel Bolger (left), the 1st Cavalry Division commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Rory Malloy, the division sergeant major, uncase the division's colors, signifying their return from combat operations during their homecoming ceremony, Jan. 14, on Cooper Field at Fort Hood.
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Care Packages Make All the Difference
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Sgt. Hultz, 910th Quartermaster Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, picking up his Under Armor Shirt and Care Package inside R-Pod, H-7 Housing at JBB, Iraq.
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Mississippi Guardsmen become pen pals with hometown grade-schoolers
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“Flat Stanley,” a paper doll used in a pen-pal program, propped at the edge of an Iraqi winter wheat field near the Al-Qyarrah pump station compound, the Tigris River source of water supplying Contingency Operating Location Q-West. Third-graders with Cheryl Hays’ Discovery class at Mooreville Elementary School, Mooreville, Miss., sent the paper doll along with cards and letters to members of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, a mechanized infantry unit out of Hernando, Miss., that provides security for missions to the pump house.
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Garryowen’s newest spur holders make path for their future
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Maj. Gen. Daniel Bolger (left), the 1st Cavalry Division commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Rory Malloy, the division sergeant major, uncase the division's colors, signifying their return from combat operations during their homecoming ceremony, Jan. 14, on Cooper Field at Fort Hood.
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Mississippians mark six months securing Q-West entry control point
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A .50 cal. machine gun overlooking an entry control point at Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Jan. 10. The ECP is manned by members of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, a mechanized infantry unit out of Hernando, Miss., that provides force protection to Q-West. This day marked the unit’s sixth month of ECP operations. There have been no security breaches during their tenure.
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Air Cav crew chief returns home after 20 years
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Sgt. Nicanor Garcia, from Killeen, Texas, an AH-64D Apache attack helicopter crew chief in Company B, 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, left his native Panama in 1989 before the invasion by the U.S. Army and didn’t return until 20 years later.
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Cav band prepares for final performance
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1st Cavalry Division’s rock band drummer, Staff Sgt. Kristine Pittman, plays in a holiday concert, Dec. 22, at the division chapel as a special thanks to the Division Special Troops Battalion for all of the support provided throughout the band’s deployment.
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Mail clerks act as Santa’s little helpers during holidays
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Spc. Krystal Juarez, a mail clerk assigned to Company A, Division Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, sorts letters during the holiday rush in the division mail room on Camp Liberty. According to Juarez, daily mail has nearly doubled since around the end of November.
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