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SAQLAWIYAH PATROL — U.S. Marines patrol through a local village to search for hidden weapon caches during an operation in Saqlawiyah, Iraq, Dec. 5, 2005. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Mark E. Morrow)

U.S. Army soldiers from B Company 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, make their way down a steep mountainside while on a patrol during Operation Pizmah in Dey Chopan District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, Dec. 11, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Vincent Fusco U.S. Paratroopers Complete Operation Pizmah U.S. paratroopers in Afghanistan hunted for Taliban, as well as worked to reestablish a coalition presence in the districts of Dey Chopan, Argandab and Khaki-Afghan. By U.S. Army Pfc. Vincent Fusco 20th Public Affairs Detachment DEY CHOPAN, Afghanistan, Jan. 5, 2006 — As Operation Pizmah drew to a close Dec. 15,...

BAGHDAD – A Task Force Baghdad patrol was attacked with a roadside bomb in the late evening hours of Aug. 20 and later detained a suspect in the attack. In the wake of the explosion, the Soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division did a hasty search of nearby houses and found a man in one of the homes. The Iraqi man denied having any weapons. However, a search of his residence produced an AK-47 assault rifle, a sniper rifle, 40-50 circuit boards and 10 magazines of ammunition. He also had a pair...

“Memory n. 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience; the ability to remember. 2. An act or instance of remembrance; a recollection… see smer in Appendix.” “smer – to remember. In Germanic murnon, to remember sorrowfully, in Old English murnan, to mourn.” I remember Chuck Meerholz and the day I was supposed to drive. After four months with B Company, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor; four months of on-the-job-training for a guy trained as an infantrymen, I was being taught to drive our tank. B Company was to participate in a big operation centered on the village of...

When soldiers are badly wounded or seriously ill they are sent to combat support hospitals. When vehicles are seriously damaged or require extensive repairs, they go to “the third shop.” Soldiers with B Company, 501st Forward Support Battalion (FSB), 1st Armored Division, operate one of these shops at Provider Forward Operating Base in Baghdad. “Our mission is to bring ‘deadlined’ vehicles up to speed,” said Staff Sgt. William Brown, shop foreman, B Company, 501st FSB. Any vehicle belonging to a 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) unit, from a High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to an Abrams tank, that is...