November 30, 2007 – 10:20 am
Cpl. Aawss Zahed, 30, of Mosul, Iraq, is one of fewer than 20 Iraqis serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq, now with the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment.
Photo by Seth Robson, Stars & Stripes
By Seth Robson, Stars & Stripes Mideast edition
BAGHDAD — Aawss Zahed’s path to the U.S. Army started in the unlikeliest way.
The 30-year-old [...]
November 29, 2007 – 8:53 am
Company E, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s 1st Sgt. Eric Geressy comforts a woman and four children after soldiers raided their house in search of alleged al-Qaida in Iraq member Abu Raquyyah early Monday morning.
Photos by Seth Robson, Stars & Stripes
By Seth Robson, Stars & Stripes, Mideast edition
BAGHDAD — A raid by 2nd Cavalry (Stryker) [...]
November 27, 2007 – 7:01 pm
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Sgt. Brian McCain, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, watches as a Karkh resident who hopes to join the Iraqi police force, performs pull-ups during a physical fitness test as part of a police recruitment drive that was [...]
November 27, 2007 – 1:38 pm
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photos by Seth Robson / Stars and Stripes
Sgt. Cory Plunk, a member of 3rd Platoon, Company E, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry (Stryker) Regiment, patrols East Rashid, Baghdad, last week.
by Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition
BAGHDAD — The city blocks surrounding Combat Outpost Blackfoot in Baghdad’s volatile East Rashid neighborhood look like a [...]
November 27, 2007 – 1:07 pm
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Sibling natives of Mount Clair, Va., Capt. Phillip Garner, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment and Spc. Alex Garner, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment had the opportunity to meet each other during their deployment to Iraq after a year and a half separation. (US Army photo by Spc. Elvyn Nieves, [...]
November 27, 2007 – 12:49 pm
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Country music singer Aaron Tippin puts his microphone up close while Lufkin, Texas native Spc. Ross Gray, a generator mechanic with the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, plays his new acoustic guitar at the Camp Liberty Post Exchange in western Baghdad, Nov. 24. Gray won the autographed guitar in a drawing during Tippin’s [...]
November 27, 2007 – 12:29 pm
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Lisa Ligon, a native of Richmond, Va., salutes the troops during her final performance at the Camp Liberty Main Post Exchange, Nov. 23. The Purffect Angelz performed for troops throughout Iraq visiting 21 different locations in just nine days. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. James P. Hunter, 2nd BCT, 101st Abn. Div. [...]
November 26, 2007 – 7:30 pm
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Benjamin, from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (1-2 SCR), explains the coordinates to one of his Soldiers during a night patrol, on Nov. 26, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Photographer: Cpl. Jeffrey Sandstrum, Joint Combat Camera Center
U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (1-2 SCR) find cover during a night [...]
