March 19, 2008

Grants help rebuild local commerce

BAGHDAD, Iraq (March 18, 2008) — Store owners whose shops were severely damaged received micro grants from Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers

March 19, 2008

PRT, nurses teach Afghans preventative healthcare

KABUL, Afghanistan (March 17, 2008) — Afghan nurses along with International Security Assistance Force medical personnel provided vitamins and intestinal parasite treatment to about 150 Afghan men, women and children

March 19, 2008

Iraqi Army discovers cache in Salah ad Din

TIKRIT, Iraq (March 20, 2008) – Iraqi Soldiers discovered a weapons cache of explosives east of Balad, March 16.

March 19, 2008

Girl awaiting surgery may get wish

FOB KALSU, Iraq (March 20, 2008) – A young girl and her family are anxiously awaiting a decision from an organization in Los Angeles to determine the fate of her eyesight.Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, escorted 5-year-old Noor to the 86th Combat Support Hospital in

March 19, 2008

New police station brings in new era of law

CAMP TAJI, Iraq (March 19, 2008) – A new era of law was ushered in with the cutting of a ribbon at a ceremony opening the new Iraqi Police station in Shat al Taji March 15.“Our goal is to serve the people and impose the law on all the people,” said Maj. Gen. Kaadim Hameed Sharhaan al Muhamadani, commander of police, Baghdad.The large crowd in

March 19, 2008

NATO progress in Afghanistan significant, general says

WASHINGTON (March 19, 2008) – Despite the task NATO faced when it arrived in Afghanistan in 2003, the alliance has made significant progress in the country, the deputy chairman of the alliance’s military committee said. “NATO’s done a remarkable job … in expanding their operations, from what began just in the Kabul area, throughout the entire

March 18, 2008

New police station brings in new era of law

CAMP TAJI, Iraq (March 18, 2008) — A new era of law was ushered in with the cutting of a ribbon at a ceremony opening the new Iraqi Police station in Shat al Taji

March 17, 2008

Running a city in southern Iraq

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq (March 16, 2008) — A National Guard unit from Oklahoma tells the story of running a city-sized facility in Iraq

March 17, 2008

Afghan citizen turns in IED cache in Oruzgan

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (March 14, 2008) — Afghan National Security Forces, assisted by Coalition forces, conducted a security patrol that found and disarmed an improvised explosive device cache turned in by a local Afghan citizen

March 17, 2008

Iraqi troops recover weapons cache in Al-Iskandariyah

BALAD, Iraq (March 15, 2008) — A Hillah Iraqi Special Weapons and Tactics team recovered a weapons and munitions cache in Al-Iskandariyah as the result of a tip from a local citizen