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from the April 12, 2004 edition CAMP ANACONDA: Thomas Hamill attended a morning drivers' meeting late last month at Camp Anaconda. Weeks later, he was taken hostage by gunmen. ANDREW INNERARITY/HOUSTON CHRONICLE/AP US hostage: from farm debt to IraqAdventure and work sent Tommy Hamill to Iraq. Now a town prays for him. By Steve Rogers | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor MACON, MISS. – After years of trying to make it as a dairy farmer in rural Mississippi, Tommy Hamill finally decided last summer to do what virtually no one in agriculture ever wants to: sell the family farm....

Sunday, March 14, 2004 Task Force 1-77 finds 1st big cache By Steve Liewer, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Sunday, March 14, 2004 Steve Liewer / S&S A Bradley fighting vehicle follows a squad from Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment down a rutted lane Friday in search of weapons and bomb-making material. Two caches were found in orchards within a few hundred feet of where the soldiers are shown patrolling in Albu Shakur, Iraq, near the city of Balad. Steve Liewer / S&S 1st Lt. Scott Gilman, left, 24, of Decatur, Ill., and Sgt. 1st Class Brian Frey, 34,...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq  — An American soldier was killed and 12 wounded in a rocket attack Sunday on an Army base in central Iraq, the U.S. military said.</p> <p>The rocket landed inside a logistics support base of the 4th Infantry Division in Balad, 50 miles south of the division's headquarters in Tikrit, an Army statement said.</p>

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Keeping clean water flowing to troops By Ron Jensen, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Ron Jensen / S&S Sgt. 1st Class Maria Hammer of the 692nd Quartermaster Battalion at LSA Anaconda, Iraq, explains how the ROWPU — Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit — makes water for the base, which consumes 400,000 gallons a day. Ron Jensen / S&S Soldiers fill up a water truck at LSA Anaconda, Iraq. The base is home to about 15,000 soldiers. LSA ANACONDA, Iraq — The members of the 326th Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) are in a race.They...