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  Infantry 'Spartans' Deliver Supplies to Girls' School By Cpl. Benjamin Cossel, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service Baghdad, Iraq, April 2, 2004 – Students of the city's 14th of July Girls' School received an unexpected gift when soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, handed out 500 backpacks loaded with school supplies, candy and other items. Students from the 14th of July Girls' School in Baghdad look over the contents of backpacks donated by soldiers from 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Located in the Rusafa district of...

Sunday, March 21, 2004 For once, a quiet night in Baghdad for Company B By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Sunday, March 21, 2004 Michael Abrams / S&S A young Iraqi boy and girl along with their grandmother watch as their grandfather talks to a soldier while other soldiers of Company B, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Armored Division search their house during a night-time sweep through a Baghdad neighborhood during Operation Iron Promise. Michael Abrams / S&S Sgt. Will Byrne, right, Company B, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Armored Division and liason...