Soldiers capture kidnapper, free hostage (”Thank you, America” says freed hostage)
Multi-National Corps – Iraq ^ | 10-14-07 | Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
Soldiers capture kidnapper, free hostage Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division Soldiers captured a kidnapper and freed a hostage being held for ransom Oct. 9 after being tipped off by residents of Northern Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood.
Members of the 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted the operation which freed Majhid Hamid Majeed, a 33-year-old shop owner and father of five, from the confines of the tiny, squalid room where he was being held hostage.
Majeed had been abducted the previous day by kidnappers who beat him and threatened to kill him unless his family paid a $10,000 ransom. As word about the kidnapping spread through the community, a Concerned Citizen called a local tip line with information about the identities of the kidnappers.
A platoon from Troop C, 3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry was on patrol when the tip came in. The patrol was immediately redirected to the residence the kidnappers were supposedly using as their base. When the Soldiers burst through the door, the kidnapper who was guarding Majeed literally jumped out of his shoes and made a break for the roof, said Hot Springs, Ark., native Staff Sgt. Jeremy Hand. The Soldiers caught him before he could make it out of the house.
A search of the house quickly located Majeed, who was lying on a cot in a small room. Until the moment the Soldiers came into the room, Majeed was sure he was going to be killed, he said. When the Soldiers’ interpreter explained to Majeed that he was being rescued, the shop owner hugged and kissed him.
“Thank you America!” he exclaimed.
When their search was complete, the Soldiers brought Majeed, the detainee and evidence taken from the house back to their base at Coalition Outpost Apache. Later that evening the Soldiers brought Majeed’s brother and a cousin to see him, and the three of them shared a long hug together when they were reunited.
For Orlando, Fla., native Spc. Thomas Anderson, a medic who had taken part in the operation, seeing Majeed reunited with his family was a gratifying sight.
“This guy has got five kids, and he gets to go home to them tonight because of us. That makes you feel pretty good,” Anderson said.
Adopted shelter dog becomes therapy for troops in Iraq.
Feb. 16, 2008, Army Capt. Phillip Rittermeyer, a chaplain with 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Rittermeyer adopted Dean, who is 3 years old, from a shelter shortly before the brigade deployed to Iraq. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA
Dean, the 64th Brigade Support Battalion therapy dog, is suited up Feb. 16, 2008, in his improved body armor system by his caretaker, Army Capt. Phillip Rittermeyer, a chaplain with 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA
Dean, a therapy dog, stands on his hind legs to reach a treat offered to him by Army Staff Sgt. Robert Hankins, a unit supply sergeant with Company A, 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, at Camp Taji, Iraq, Feb. 16, 2008. Dean is deployed to Iraq with the Mountaineer Battalion to help boost troop morale. Photo by Pfc. April Campbell, USA
Excited about receiving a treat, Dean, a Labrador retriever mix who is deployed with troops in 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multinational Division Baghdad, sticks his tongue out in anticipation Feb. 16, 2008, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Dean is on a mission as the battalion chaplain’s therapy dog to help boost the morale of soldiers during their day-to-day activities.
The dog looks real too. Puppies look like that when you pick them up by the neck. It looks heavy and not like a stuffed toy :(
These idiots will probably get alot of crap for this.
When did Mike Huckabee’s son join the Marines?
Fake.
The yelping sound is obviously fake, and the puppy doesn’t move at all or make a sound when he is being held up or while he is airborne.
The “soldiers” display no unit insignia or rank that I can see, and no weapons are visible. Uniforms are the older BDUs, not the new Marine issue.
If you listen carefully, you can hear a dog barking in the background. I think that the reason the camera angle is so tight is to make it difficult to see where the film was shot... like out behind someone’s house. The quality is poor, sugesting it may have been shot with a cell phone. If that is the case (and if the film is to be accepted as the real thing, as purported), what were soldiers doing with a cell phone while on patrol in a combat zone?
This stinks.
Anti-war leftist pukes dressed up as marines.
SOLDIERS PROVIDE AID TO IRAQI ORPHANAGE
KIRKUK — Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, visited a Kirkuk orphanage, Feb. 3. The Soldiers passed out food, supplies and toys, hoping to “brighten the children’s faces and provide them with some things that they often go without,” said Capt. Greg Hotaling, Company D commander.
In addition to donating food and supplies, the Multi-National Division – North Soldiers made plans to help the orphanage build an indoor recreation room, “where the boys have somewhere to play during bad weather,” Hotaling said.
The Soldiers plan to visit the orphanage regularly during the duration of their deployment.
“It’s just an amazing feeling to know that we are putting smiles on the faces of these children, and we will continue to work with them until we leave,” said Cincinnati, Ohio, native, Sgt. 1st Class Steven Bailey. “The boys are real smart, too. I was teaching them English and they were teaching me Arabic.”
There’s a definite lack of supervision going on here.
Two camera angles, the sound of the puppy is wrong, the looks on the guys face...the things said.
Sorry, I will absolutely give our guys who volunteered to put their lives in harms way the benefit of the doubt before reacting badly towards them over something from YourTube that is so clearly a staged video.
If it is proven that two active duty Marines did this, they should be punished by the military according to the UCMJ...not by a bunch of people safe at home posting on a web forum whose sensibilites have been offended.
Coalition Forces Treat 450 Afghans During Medical Outreach (Humans and Animals)
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Nov. 30, 2007 – The towns of Eskandareh and Pacha Khak hide deep within the mountains of the Kohe Safid district in Afghanitan’s Parwan province.
Sgt. 1st Class Jason Sealey, Kohe Safi Police Mentor Team, holds a calf still while Lt. Col. Richard Probst, 413th Civil Affairs Battalion, gives it a shot during a medical outreach visit, Nov. 27, 2007, in Afghanistan’s Parwan province. Coalition doctors and veterinarians saw more than 450 people and 330 animals during the two-day visit.
Eskandareh is near the head of Tagab Valley, and Pacha Khak has been a stronghold for many armies throughout Afghanistan’s history. Members of 413th Civil Affairs Battalion, accompanied by Afghan National Police and the Kohe Safi Police Mentor Team, brought doctors and veterinarians to these two remote villages Nov. 27 for a village medical outreach.
Medical outreach missions are a way for the Afghan government and coalition forces to build a rapport with citizens on their own turf, said Army Col. Robert Nobak, of 413th Civil Affairs Battalion.
“When possible, we like to work with Afghan providers and, when necessary, make referrals to Afghan medical facilities,” he said. “However, if there are cases where Afghan facilities are not readily available, we can make referrals to (Bagram Air Base).”
This was the first time such a mission has been held at either of these villages, and more than 450 men, women and children were seen.
“The age range was from 2 to 95, so the spectrum was fairly broad,” Nobak said. “The most common complaint was joint pain, for which we have a variety of anti-inflammatory medicines.”
Maj. Jeremy McGuire, leader of the Kohe Safi Police Mentor Team, organized the mission. “I proposed the idea for a medical outreach to Parwan’s subgovernor and the local (Afghan police) chief,” he said. “They picked the villages, which are a political hot bed.”
Pacha Khak was a Mujahedeen stronghold during the communist regime and was sympathetic to the Taliban when coalition forces took control of Afghanistan. Eskanderah villagers fought against the Taliban; in fact, an Afghan National Army general hails from the area, McGuire said.
The mission met “my expectations as far as the timeline, security and set-up,” said Navy Lt. Tammy Felker, a physician assistant with 413th Civil Affairs Battalion who attended to women and girls in the village. “It did not meet my expectations in that I would have liked to have seen more women of childbearing age. When we don’t see women of childbearing age in the clinic, then the village tends to be more traditional and suppress their women. The amount of women of childbearing age we see signifies the level of freedom the women have.”
Still, Felker said, she felt the mission was still a success. “This is the first time we visited these villages. It takes time to develop a rapport with people,” she said. “The first part is establishing trust. I feel we established trust with this visit, so, next time we will see more women and children.
Helping people with their ailments wasn’t the only aspect of this mission. A veterinarian and an entomologist were also along for the ride. “I provide public-health assistance and education to the villagers, hopefully to implement long-lasting fixes for problems like insect-borne and food- and water-borne diseases, improving the overall health and well-being of locals, though I tend to assist the other medical or vet assets to accomplish their missions,” said Navy Lt. Jason Forster, a medical entomologist.
As the Humvees headed back to Bagram Air Base, chatter over the radios was all about the success of the mission. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I would call this (mission) a 9,” McGuire said. “We would have liked to get more Afghan doctors, but the ANP did an outstanding job with security.”
Probably faked by supporters of the Obamunist.
If this is true, I honestly hope all of these guys and their families contract cancer.
That’s a classic sign of a serial murderer. I can only think back to that video of Saddam’s henchman throwing those guys off the bridges, and here this animal is over there, the firing squad for him or else we get to deal with him murdering and raping when he gets back.
Now back to being outraged by the stupid and cruel action of one young man and a young dog.