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(FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., May 12th, 2004, 12:30 p.m.) -- A military police battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation on Wednesday for extraordinary heroism in Iraq, receiving it for the second time in unit history. The award Wednesday for the 716th Military Police Company was especially gratifying to the soldiers because it contrasts news out of Iraq about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military police officers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "I think you should take this story and put it right over top of the other one," said Terri Dorn, commander of the 194th Military...

Sherry Orlando at work in the Public Affaris Office with photo displayed nearby of late husband Lt. Col. Kim Orlando former commander of 716th Military Police. U.S. Army photo 'Just Around the Corner' Iraqi Freedom veteran's widow meets husband's returning soldiers   By Kelly Pate / Fort Campbell, Ky., Public Affairs Office FORT CAMBPELL, KY, March 6, 2004 — She waited outside Hangar 2 in the damp pre-dawn air for a sign of landing lights. Her husband would have been among the more than 200 716th Military Police Battalion soldiers returning to Fort Campbell that day. U.S. Army Lt....

<p>A military police commander killed this week during a bloody battle outside a cleric's headquarters has become the highest-ranking Army officer killed in hostile fire in Iraq, according to an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.</p> <p>Lt. Col. Kim S. Orlando was among three soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, killed when a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol confronted gunmen outside a mosque in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala.</p>