Posted on 08/16/2005 9:50:27 AM PDT by Cecily
Baghdad, Iraq – Major General Joseph Taluto, commanding general, 42nd Infantry Division, participated in a ribbon cutting of the 101st Airborne Division’s future headquarters last weekend at Forward Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. The 101st Airborne Division will be relieving the 42nd Infantry Division before the end of the year. The new facility, known as the ‘D Main’ will be a fully functional division headquarters consisting of 51,000 square feet when elements of the ‘Screaming Eagles’ arrive in the fall. The facility is the largest single structure built to date in Iraq for coalition forces.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region North district also had construction oversight of the fully functional 6,000 square foot Secured Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIF).
(Excerpt) Read more at grd.usace.army.mil ...
Screaming Eagles!
Wonder what Marine General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller would think about this...
Try as I may, I can't seem to conjure up the sense of "short term" or "temporary" in this move. We're not there for the duration, we're there for 'forever'!
A.K.A. "Pukin Buzzards", "Hundred and Worst", and about ten other names I can't say here... ;-)
Could our first permanent base in Iraq be right in good old Saddam's hometown? I hope so.
This is where my friends' husband will be heading to soon.
I'll bet they did not call them that at Bastonge. It seems the 10th Mountain is the one that did not fare well over there, anyway.
LOL!
Your kiddin, right?
Those monikers were invented by the 101st Troopers!
I know! I be one of them from a different era! (Check my profile)...Airborne!
No, at Bastogne they were known as the 101st "Truckborne". Regardless of how they got there, they performed magnificently.
Roger that JD. Pukin Buzzards was one of the nicer names for the best Damn Airborne Division that ever was,and is.
And a GERONIMO Morning to you and yours.
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