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The FReeper Foxhole - Military Related News in Review - September 15th, 2003
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Posted on 09/15/2003 3:46:48 AM PDT by snippy_about_it



Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer
for all those serving their country at this time.



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Casuality Identification List for the past two weeks from the DoD


September 12, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Sgt. Henry Ybarra III, 32, of Austin, Texas, died on Sept. 11 in Balad, Iraq. Ybarra was changing the tire on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck when the tire exploded. Ybarra died of his injuries.

Ybarra was assigned to D Troop, 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry, Illesheim, Germany.

September 11, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Joseph E. Robsky, Jr., 31, of Elizaville, N.Y., was killed on Sept. 10 in Baghdad, Iraq. Robsky was on call to neutralize an improvised explosive device (IED) after the initial attempt failed. Soldier returned to the site to render it safe, and the IED detonated. Robsky was assigned to the 759th Ordnance Company, Fort Irwin, Calif.

Spc. Ryan G. Carlock, 25, of Macomb, Ill., was killed on Sept. 9 northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Carlock died of injuries sustained when his fuel truck was attacked by the enemy. Carlock was assigned to the 416th Transportation Company, 260th Quartermaster Battalion (Petroleum Support), Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.

September 10, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Spc. Jarrett B. Thompson, 27, of Dover, Del., died on Sept. 7 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Thompson was in a convoy on Aug. 30 when a civilian vehicle passed the convoy and cut in front of the lead military vehicle and an approaching Iraqi truck. The driver of the civilian vehicle hit Thompson's truck. Thompson was medically evacuated to WRAMC where he later died of his injuries.

Thompson was assigned to the 946th Transportation Company, U.S. Army Reserve, Lewes, Del.

September 4, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Staff Sgt. Cameron B. Sarno, 43, of Waipahu, Hawaii, died on Sept. 1 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Sarno was hit by a truck while changing his vehicle's tire. Sarno died as a result of his injuries.

Sarno was assigned to the 257th Transportation Company, U.S. Army Reserve, Las Vegas, Nev.

September 3, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Sean K. Cataudella, 28, of Tucson, Ariz., died on Aug. 30 in Ba’qubah, Iraq. Cataudella was driving a military vehicle when he hit an embankment and rolled into a canal. Cataudella was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Sgt. Charles T. Caldwell, 38, of North Providence, R.I., was killed on Sept. 1 on Main Supply Route Tampa, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Caldwell was one of two soldiers killed in a vehicle that was struck by an improvised explosive device. Caldwell died of his injuries. Caldwell was assigned to the 115th Military Police Company, U.S. Army National Guard, Cranston, R.I.

Pfc. Christopher A. Sisson, 20, of Oak Park, Ill., died on Sept. 2 in Baghdad, Iraq. Sisson was in a UH-60 helicopter participating in an air assault mission. The helicopter flipped and crashed on take off. He died of injuries sustained in the incident. Sisson was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 325th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, N.C.

These incidents are under investigation.

September 3, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the identities of two soldiers who were killed on Aug. 31, in Shkin, Afghanistan, while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Killed were:

Spc. Chad C. Fuller, 24, of Potsdam, N.Y.

Pfc. Adam L. Thomas, 21, of Palos Hills, Ill.

Both soldiers were killed while on patrol when their squad was attacked. They died of injuries sustained during the attack.

The soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

The incident is under investigation.

September 2, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today that Sgt. 1st Class Mitchell A. Lane, 34, of Lompoc, Calif., died on Aug. 29 in Afghanistan. Lane fell approximately 25 feet when he was conducting a fast rope infiltration into a known enemy cave complex. Lane died of his injuries.

Lane was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.

September 2, 2003
DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Staff Sgt. Joseph Camara, 40, of New Bedford, Mass., was killed Sept. 1 on Main Supply Route Tampa, south of Baghdad, Iraq. Camara was one of two soldiers who were killed when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Camara died of his injuries.

Camara was assigned to the 115th Military Police Company, U.S. Army National Guard, Cranston, R.I.


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September 12, 2003


Indiana Guard Unit Training, Hard Work Pays Off

Note: FReeper "DesertDog" who is FReeper BeAllYouCanBe's son is part of this unit

CAMP ARIFJAN, KUWAIT, Sept. 12, 2003 — “The Thugs,” as they call themselves with a certain sense of pride, have learned about going to war in ways that no street gang could ever imagine.

They are 24 Army National Guard infantry soldiers from Indiana, and they joined the brotherhood of combat infantry veterans during a long, anxious night in late March while guarding a captured ammunition supply point in southern Iraq.

They also helped to write a new chapter in the history of the modern Army National Guard by moving into enemy territory and holding their ground after the first week of Operation Iraqi Freedom which began on March 19.

The Thugs are the mortar platoon for the 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry, which demonstrated during this second war against the forces of Saddam Hussein that the Army Guard can handle itself in a combat situation; that it is primed for the fight.

“We have validated ourselves to the active Army. Seven years of hard work and training has paid off,” said Lt. Col. Ivan Denton, the 1st Battalion commander, about what his 650 light infantry soldiers and other Army Guard infantry units have accomplished during the second Gulf War.

The battalion is part of Indiana’s 76th Infantry Brigade, which became one of the Army Guard’s 15 separate and enhanced brigades in the mid-1990s.

“We believed that the enhanced, separate brigades’ stock would rise during this war, and we took that very seriously,” Denton said.

Army Guard infantry soldiers did not get into Operation Desert Storm a dozen years ago, when a coalition force drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.

This time, seven different Army Guard infantry battalions had served in Iraq between late March and early September, because the Army needed all of the help it could get, said Col. Glenn Walker, chief of the Army National Guard Affairs Office in Kuwait.

“If you were ground combat and they needed you, you got used,” Walker explained.

All told, 29,000 Army Guard troops, belonging to 708 units, were operating in the Iraq-Kuwait theater by September, he said.

Many of the Guard’s support units, including transportation and medical companies, were pressed into service during the first Gulf War and have been called up again.

This time, however, the infantry can take a bow.

And the 1st of the 293rd from Fort Wayne, Ind., has led the way because it has been there the longest of any Army infantry outfit, Walker said. As many as 640 of those soldiers spent more than four months in Iraq.

A total of 476 of these soldiers received the Army’s Combat Infantryman Badge and another 31 got the Combat Medic Badge for participating in ground combat against an enemy force.(Snippy's Note: DesertDog recieved the CIB)

Furthermore, Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, on Sept. 7 pinned Bronze Stars on Denton, Maj. Ronald Westfall, Maj. Eric Bray, Capt. Eric Derue, Capt. Wesley Russell and Command Sgt. Maj. John Runge.

Ironically, no one thought that outfit would actually go into that country.

It was mobilized last October to provide rear area security for Patriot missiles and for shipping and airport facilities in Kuwait, where U.S.-led coalition ground forces were massing to invade the country to the north.

The mobilization order arrived three days after Denton had officially taken command of the battalion on Oct. 19.

“I thought ‘Lord have mercy. Welcome to command,’“ recalled the new boss, a former Army Ranger, who had seen combat in Panama in late 1989, when U.S. forces overthrew the government of Manuel Noriega.

The battalion went into overdrive. The first half flew into Kuwait on Jan. 3, heavily armed, because “we didn’t know what we were stepping into,” Denton said. All of his soldiers were there by Jan. 20. Two days later, the battalion’s Humvees arrived by ship.

They were among the first military units to come from the United States. “We were very proud to be the first infantry battalion out the door,” Denton said.

They began guarding docks at the Shuiaba Port on the Persian Gulf and pulling security at Kuwait International Airport against possible terrorist attacks and sabotage as equipment and troops began pouring into the country.

They also patrolled the perimeter at Camp Arifjan, south of Kuwait City, to protect soldiers and Marines who were organizing for the invasion.

Remaining in Kuwait, however, seemed to be the Hoosier soldiers’ fate, and Denton told them it was highly unlikely they would go into Iraq.

Two days later, on March 26, he recalled, they began escorting elements of the 3rd Infantry Division into that country. It all happened that fast.

“We had a lot to do in a short amount of time,” said 1st Lt. Andrew Weaver, who was told to get his 20-man scout platoon across the border and close to the Tallil Air Base near the Iraqi city of Al Nasiriyah in 24 hours.
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To: JustAmy
That's wonderful JustAmy, thank you for sharing it with the FReeper Foxhole.

SAM and I just spent a couple wonderful days in San Diego at the invitation of the USS Tarawa OA crew and reported on it here at the Foxhole on the 5th. Hope you got to see it.

Our troops are a wonderful bunch of fine young men and women and they truly are appreciate of the support they recieve.

Isn't it wonderful to know that they are hearing about the support America is giving them!

Thanks for posting it for everyone to see.
81 posted on 09/15/2003 11:14:10 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: snippy_about_it; AntiJen; All
I missed the FoxHole on the 5th ...... I will go back and read it.

I love it when we are informed that the military are aware of the support they are receiving across this great nation. You may enjoy seeing these pictures taken by jkphoto at our picnic last week-end ........






82 posted on 09/15/2003 11:37:56 AM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless our Military, Past and Present. Thank a Veteran for your FReedoms!)
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To: JustAmy; SAMWolf
I love it when we are informed that the military are aware of the support they are receiving across this great nation.

We do to.

That's great news about the flag. Go FR!

83 posted on 09/15/2003 11:44:34 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: JustAmy; snippy_about_it
Thanks for sharing that card with us Just Amy. It sure makes us feel good when we hear from our military personnel.

As Snippy said, we had the pleasure of meeting some of the USS TAWARA crew and it was a wonderful experience to be able to thank them for what they are sacrificing for us.

We concentrate so much on showing our support for them that we sometimes forget that it works both ways. It felt strange for them to thank us because we feel we're doing nothing special. We found out they feel pretty much the same way, they all say they're not doing anything special, they're just doing their jobs. They don't realize how special they really are to us.

Nice to see that the military know about and appreciates the people here at FR.
84 posted on 09/15/2003 11:53:04 AM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: JustAmy
Hey, is that the same place you had the last picnic?

Love the certificate for the flag.
85 posted on 09/15/2003 11:55:05 AM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SAMWolf
"Hey, is that the same place you had the last picnic?"

Our picnic Saturday was at Woodward Park again but we had a different shelter location this year. We had a wonderful time just wish that more FReepers could have joined us. We had 35 to 40 people this year. Fewer than we had last year but the company was great and the tri-tip was wonderful.
86 posted on 09/15/2003 12:25:16 PM PDT by JustAmy (God Bless our Military, Past and Present. Thank a Veteran for your FReedoms!)
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To: JustAmy
Fresno is a little too far to me to drive but I might have weakened if I knew the tri-tip was going be that good. :-)
87 posted on 09/15/2003 12:38:54 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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U.S. soldiers rest at an army base in Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 km) northwest of Baghdad, September 15, 2003. A U.S. soldier was killed in a guerrilla-style attack on Monday in Baghdad. REUTERS/Arko Datta

88 posted on 09/15/2003 2:43:51 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SAMWolf
SAM that's a great picture.

guerrilla-style attack...Reuters - go figure!

89 posted on 09/15/2003 2:51:16 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: snippy_about_it
"guerrilla-style attack"

Maybe they were well dressed?

90 posted on 09/15/2003 2:55:17 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: radu; snippy_about_it; LaDivaLoca; TEXOKIE; cherry_bomb88; Bethbg79; Do the Dew; Pippin; ...
Our Military Today
Operation Mountain Viper


Operation Mountain Viper put U.S. Army soldiers of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division in Deh Chopan, in Afghanistan's Zabul province, to search for Taliban and weapon caches that could be used against U.S. and allied forces. Soldiers of 1st Platoon observe the view from a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


U.S. Army soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division complete their objective and return to the assembly area in the vicinity of the village of Nora, Sept 3, 2003, as part of Operation Mountain Viper. The operation put the soldiers of 1st Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, in Deh Chopan in Afghanistan's Zabul province, to search for Taliban and weapon caches that could be used against U.S. and allied forces. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


U.S. Army soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division conduct a search in Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, Sept. 3, 2003, as part of Operation Mountain Viper. The soldiers, with the 1st Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, conducted a "soft breach" in which civilians are asked to unlock doors, tie up dogs and move family members to an area away from the soldiers. The soldiers are looking for weapons, ammunition or evidence of ties to Taliban forces. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


U.S. Army soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division patrol Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, searching for Taliban fighters and illegal weapons caches during Operation Mountain Viper, Sept. 1, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


Operation Mountain Viper put the soldiers of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, to search for Taliban and weapon caches that could be used against U.S. and allied forces. Soldiers of 1st Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, stack up boxes of food and water in their assembly area, Sept. 3, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


Operation Mountain Viper put the soldiers of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in Deh Chopan, in the Afghan province of Zabul, to search for Taliban and weapon caches that could be used against U.S. and allied forces. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Ward Irvin and Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Sanford, the Platoon Leader and Platoon Sergeant of 1st Platoon, use a bit of cardboard as a table to brief the team leaders and squad leaders on how the mission of searching a village will proceed, Sept. 3, 2003. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


Operation Mountain Viper put soldiers of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in Deh Chopan, in Afghanistan's Zabul province, to search for Taliban and weapon caches that could be used against U.S. and allied forces. Staff Sgt. Jason Sabatke, a squad leader for 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, talks on his radio informing his platoon sergeant that the search of this residence in the village of Shaikhan has been completed, Aug. 31, 2003. Staff Sgt. Crawford, 10th Mountain Military Police Company, waits behind him. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Davis


91 posted on 09/15/2003 6:13:21 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SAMWolf
Thanks for the pictures of our troops and Operation Mountain Viper.
92 posted on 09/15/2003 6:17:02 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; AntiJen; MistyCA; SpookBrat; PhilDragoo; All
Evening friends!

Thanks so much for the thread, Snippy. Fabulous job.


click on the graphic

93 posted on 09/15/2003 6:51:38 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (There aren't enough conservatives in CA to vote for Tom and still have him to win. That's a fact)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Good Evening Victoria. Good song.
94 posted on 09/15/2003 6:54:30 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: snippy_about_it
Good evening FRiends, it has been one busy weekend. We had our American Legion Ladies Aux fund raiser. Collected about $150.00. Millington's fall festival thing is called "goat days" as it is centered around goats. Goat races, goat BBQ, goat judging, along with other stuff farm related. We set up our booth Friday night. And took it down Sunday about 2 pm. We offered hand crafted items for sale and raffled off a 48" x 48" quilt I made. I'm wore out still.
95 posted on 09/15/2003 6:54:34 PM PDT by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Evevning Victoria. Cute figurines.
96 posted on 09/15/2003 6:56:32 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: GailA
Did you get a picture of your quilt before you auctioned it off? I would have liked to have seen it.
97 posted on 09/15/2003 6:56:45 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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To: GailA
What do you do BBQ the losers of the Goat race?

I used to work the Veterans booth at events like this, lots of fun but it wears you out.
98 posted on 09/15/2003 6:58:07 PM PDT by SAMWolf (The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf
Evening Snippy and Sam. Good to see you both!

So what do you guys think about the recall's delay?

99 posted on 09/15/2003 7:10:52 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (There aren't enough conservatives in CA to vote for Tom and still have him to win. That's a fact)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
So what do you guys think about the recall's delay?

I think the federal judges should stay out of the people's business. The citizens of CA did what they were required to do for the recall and now a panel of judges want to halt it? Not good.

100 posted on 09/15/2003 7:14:45 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our troops)
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