[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to A Company, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, and the Iraqi Army Special Troops Company, 9th Mechanized Brigade, conduct a Community Health Operation Program Service mission in Sobak Sur, Iraq, Dec. 26, 2005. These programs are routinely held to bring much needed health care to areas that ordinarily would be unable to receive such services. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to A Company, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, visit a water treatment facilty in Rashadiya, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2005. The visit was to ensure that pipes which had been improperly installed were being removed to make way for new pipe to be installed. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to A Company, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, inspect the site of an improvised explosive device which destroyed a portion of pipeline used to carry water to a water treatment facility near Husseinia, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill

U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to A Company, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, visited the construction site of a new courthouse in Husseinia, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2005. The courthouse is just one of many civil affairs projects to improve living conditions

Our troops are the bestest!! Please, God, let loved ones see loved ones.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hiya Ma!
*HUG*
Ms.B