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Greta Perry or otherwise known as Hooah Wife has written a fine article, describing her path to MilBlogging, MilBlogs as a community and how MilBlogs has help defined history.
Great job Greta!
Gen Rick Lynch on the 3ID... in case you missed it in the MSM...
The 3rd Infantry Division has been all over the news as your soldiers are aggressively taking the fight to the enemy in Operation Marne Torch. They are expelling Al Qaida from a safe haven, and they are capturing insurgents to make the population secure.But the fight is not just theirs; it is shared with the Iraqis. Everywhere Task Force Marne operates, the Iraqi soldiers are strong and their leaders are stronger.
Every time I meet an Iraqi leader, they are doing the right thing. Our division is paired with the 6th Iraqi Army Division and the 8th Iraqi Army Division - who are always focused on doing the right thing. Their commanders are magnificent Iraqis, not Shia, not Sunni. They lead soldiers to do the right thing.
Operations are joint, patrol bases are shared, and planning is done in coordination with the Iraqis.
When I visit our joint patrol bases, I can't tell which building belongs to the Americans and which building belongs to the Iraqis. Iraqi company commanders are fighting alongside American company commanders, performing the same functions under the same responsibilities.
Last week, I met a young Iraqi lieutenant who had been in the Army for four years. Because his enlistment paperwork was lost, he was never promoted or received a pay increase during those four years. When I asked him what he was going to do, he told me he was going to keep being a soldier - his country needed him and he felt honored serving alongside our American troops.
Be sure to read all of it HERE
When you think you have a long hard day...
This article is a brief synopsis of a day in the life of a US Army Forward Support Medical-Evacuation Team (FSMT) in Iraq. The team has sixteen soldiers and three helicopters. The soldiers are eight pilots, four mechanics, and four medics. The pilots are all commissioned officers or warrant officers. The mechanics and medics are enlisted personnel; mostly sergeants. The flying machines are Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawks. Each can carry up to six litter patients, or four litter patients plus four ambulatory patients. In the summer heat of Iraq, where 110F is the mid-day norm, the Hawks fly at about 130 knots (twice as fast as your family car on the highway).The duty cycle for our team is 1st Up, 2nd Up, Chase, Off. Each of these is a 24-hour period, so we are on duty for 72 hours then off for 24 hours. Off is not really off as we have housekeeping chores and home improvement projects going all the time. Currently, we're filling and stacking sand bags around our housing trailers to protect us from near-miss indirect fire attacks such as incoming mortars and rockets. The Anti-Iraqi forces lob a few of these missiles at the base every week.
Read the rest at Some Soldier's Mom...
Defenselink reported:
Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich., and Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., were declared missing-captured June 27.
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