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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Marines and Seabees Work With Philippine Army E...
(10.23.2007) Marine engineers from Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 and MWSS-172 and Navy Seabees from the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7 slogged through the mud and endured pounding rains along side engineers from the...
Taming Suniyah: Joint Combat Operations Proving...
(10.24.2007) It's a scene reminiscent an old spaghetti western. The good guys, donning their white, 10-gallon hats, mosey down a dusty street, promising justice to the weak and punishment to the wicked, but instead of cowboy...
Chairman Asks Straight Questions, Gets Hard Ans...
(10.24.2007) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen yesterday heard some hard truths when he asked hundreds of Soldiers about their service.
PRT Farah Funds $1.7 Million Bridge in Tojg
(10.24.2007) Construction is underway for a $1.7 million bridge across the Farah Rud River in Tojg. The project, funded by the Farah Provisional Reconstruction Team, will employ several hundred Afghans for a two-year period.
Vice Chairman Talks Intelligence at Geospatial ...
(10.24.2007) Intelligence sharing betwen nations needs to be re-examined and improved, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, Oct. 22.
Houston Cheerleaders Compete to Raise Nearly $4...
(10.24.2007) The Family Readiness Group co-leaders accepted a gift of nearly $4,000 from the cheerleading squads of Klein Forest and Westfield High Schools during a homecoming game held Oct. 12 in Houston.
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Prosthetic Clinic in Green Zone Offers New Hope
(10.24.2007) Third Brigade Combat Team medical personnel visited an Iraqi Ministry of Defense prosthetic clinic located in the Baghdad Green Zone on Sept. 5. They visited to help 20-year-old Soham Hassan Ka-Naan and 17-year-o...
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Georgia High School Football Rivalry Extends Th...
(10.24.2007) “My team is the best,” Sgt. 1st Class Tony Copeland, non-commissioned officer in charge of 1st Brigade Combat Team’s personnel office and Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Manning, 1st BCT Iraqi Security Forces Cell non-comm...
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Soldiers Help Celebrate Sadr City School Renova...
(10.24.2007) When students at the Yarmook Girl’s School in Sadr City returned from summer vacation last month, they found that their school had received an extreme makeover, thanks to the government of Iraq and the U.S. Army.
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Burden-Sharing Urged As NATO Focuses on Afghani...
(10.24.2007) Dutch Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop joined NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer today in opening a two-day ministerial conference, reminding members of the importance of sharing the NATO's respon...
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Gates Arrives in Netherlands to Focus on NATO I...
(10.24.2007) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived, Oct. 24, to discuss the way ahead for the alliance with his NATO counterparts and encourage members to live up to commitments they've made to help in Afghanistan.
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Shiites Work Against Extremists, Generals Say
(10.24.2007) A movement toward peace that began in mostly Sunni areas of Iraq now is moving into Shiite areas as well, a senior commander said in Baghdad, Oct. 24.
Soldiers Help Celebrate Sadr City School Renova...
(10.24.2007) When students at the Yarmook Girl's School in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood returned from summer vacation last month, they found that their school had received an extreme makeover thanks to the government of I...
3 images
Airborne Buddies Are Friends for Life
(10.24.2007) Sitting in their turrets manning their guns as tracers whizzed over their heads from all directions, Army Sgt. Damon Bligh and Spc. Rick Crothers knew they always had somebody they could count on: each other.
(10.23.2007) Marine engineers from Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 and MWSS-172 and Navy Seabees from the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7 slogged through the mud and endured pounding rains along side engineers from the...
Taming Suniyah: Joint Combat Operations Proving...
(10.24.2007) It's a scene reminiscent an old spaghetti western. The good guys, donning their white, 10-gallon hats, mosey down a dusty street, promising justice to the weak and punishment to the wicked, but instead of cowboy...
Chairman Asks Straight Questions, Gets Hard Ans...
(10.24.2007) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen yesterday heard some hard truths when he asked hundreds of Soldiers about their service.
PRT Farah Funds $1.7 Million Bridge in Tojg
(10.24.2007) Construction is underway for a $1.7 million bridge across the Farah Rud River in Tojg. The project, funded by the Farah Provisional Reconstruction Team, will employ several hundred Afghans for a two-year period.
Vice Chairman Talks Intelligence at Geospatial ...
(10.24.2007) Intelligence sharing betwen nations needs to be re-examined and improved, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, Oct. 22.
Houston Cheerleaders Compete to Raise Nearly $4...
(10.24.2007) The Family Readiness Group co-leaders accepted a gift of nearly $4,000 from the cheerleading squads of Klein Forest and Westfield High Schools during a homecoming game held Oct. 12 in Houston.
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Prosthetic Clinic in Green Zone Offers New Hope
(10.24.2007) Third Brigade Combat Team medical personnel visited an Iraqi Ministry of Defense prosthetic clinic located in the Baghdad Green Zone on Sept. 5. They visited to help 20-year-old Soham Hassan Ka-Naan and 17-year-o...
2 images
Georgia High School Football Rivalry Extends Th...
(10.24.2007) “My team is the best,” Sgt. 1st Class Tony Copeland, non-commissioned officer in charge of 1st Brigade Combat Team’s personnel office and Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Manning, 1st BCT Iraqi Security Forces Cell non-comm...
1 images
Soldiers Help Celebrate Sadr City School Renova...
(10.24.2007) When students at the Yarmook Girl’s School in Sadr City returned from summer vacation last month, they found that their school had received an extreme makeover, thanks to the government of Iraq and the U.S. Army.
4 images
Burden-Sharing Urged As NATO Focuses on Afghani...
(10.24.2007) Dutch Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop joined NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer today in opening a two-day ministerial conference, reminding members of the importance of sharing the NATO's respon...
3 images
Gates Arrives in Netherlands to Focus on NATO I...
(10.24.2007) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived, Oct. 24, to discuss the way ahead for the alliance with his NATO counterparts and encourage members to live up to commitments they've made to help in Afghanistan.
1 images
Shiites Work Against Extremists, Generals Say
(10.24.2007) A movement toward peace that began in mostly Sunni areas of Iraq now is moving into Shiite areas as well, a senior commander said in Baghdad, Oct. 24.
Soldiers Help Celebrate Sadr City School Renova...
(10.24.2007) When students at the Yarmook Girl's School in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood returned from summer vacation last month, they found that their school had received an extreme makeover thanks to the government of I...
3 images
Airborne Buddies Are Friends for Life
(10.24.2007) Sitting in their turrets manning their guns as tracers whizzed over their heads from all directions, Army Sgt. Damon Bligh and Spc. Rick Crothers knew they always had somebody they could count on: each other.
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