101st Participates In Clinic, School Openings

101st Participates In Clinic, School Openings

MOSUL, Iraq – The town of Hatra, in northern Iraq, celebrated a morning of new beginnings today with the help of the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, division commander.

The Hatra medical clinic was pronounced open following a ribbon cutting ceremony. The clinic was refurbished with $60,000 funded by the 101st and by the Coalition Provisional Authority. The money was used to install heating, lighting and plumbing as well as to paint several walls. Medical supplies and equipment were also purchased, including medicine, a van, a computer system and an ultrasound machine, said Capt. Tim West, battalion physician assistant, 2nd Battalion 320th Field Artillery Regiment.

The clinic has a full time medical staff of 13, plus another 11 medical technicians. The Hatra Brass Recovery Company (HBRC) at ammo supply point Jaguar also held a ribbon cutting ceremony. The workers at Jaguar have been scrapping and selling brass and other metals since the summer. The money gathered from the HBRC is being used for reconstruction projects in the town.

A school for girls in Hatra held a dedication ceremony. The school was renamed “The Ian Rimell School for Girls,” after a member of the Mine Awareness Group who was killed in September. The school was renamed to bring attention to a man who did his job to try and make Hatra safe and free from land mines and other explosive devices.

The school was repaired and refurbished using money from brass collected and sold by the HBRC.

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MOSUL, Iraq (Jan. 19) – The town of Hatra, in northern Iraq, celebrated a morning of new beginnings today with the help of the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, division commander.

The Hatra medical clinic was pronounced open following a ribbon cutting ceremony.

The Hatra Brass Recovery Company (HBRC) at ammo supply point Jaguar also held a ribbon cutting ceremony. The workers at Jaguar have been scrapping and selling brass and other metals since the summer.

A school for girls in Hatra held a dedication ceremony. The school was renamed “The Ian Rimell School for Girls,” after a member of the Mine Awareness Group who was killed in September....repaired and refurbished using money from brass collected and sold by the HBRC.

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The school was renamed “The Ian Rimell School for Girls,” after a member of the Mine Awareness Group who was killed in September. The school was renamed to bring attention to a man who did his job to try and make Hatra safe and free from land mines and other explosive devices.

Memo to Iraqis:
Note well the honoring, not of President Bush, but of a person of no reputation except that he died trying to make you safe.
In his book Samuri!, Saburo Sakai remarked that the Japanese noticed that the Americans called the airstrip on Guadalcanal "Henderson Field"--in honor not of a bigwig but of a casualty of the Battle of Midway.

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