photos by Pfc. Nathaniel Smith, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Lt. Col. Myron Reineke, commander of the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment from Spring Valley, Minn., and Command Sgt. Maj. Frank Wood, the senior non-commissioned officer of the 2-2 SCR from Dallas, unfurl the unit’s colors in a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad, Sept. 16. The ‘Cougars’ are deployed out of Vilseck, Germany.
Maj. Steve Soika, the executive officer of the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment from Brunswick, Ohio, bows his head in prayer before the uncasing of the unit’s colors in a ceremony at Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad, Sept. 16.
From left, Los Angeles native Spc. Hong Kim, Spcs. Casey O’Malley and Jeffery Beckham, both from Tacoma, Wash., and Spc. Lawrence Harrell, from Winnsboro, La., all members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, serve as the color guard during their unit’s colors uncasing ceremony at Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad, Sept. 16.
