Monthly Archives: December 2007

Checkpoint Operations

U.S. Army Sgt. Darren Leslie, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (1-2 SCR) picks up debris from an Iraqi car wreck Dec. 29, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Photographer: Cpl. Jeffrey Sandstrum, Joint Combat Camera Center

Iraqis rebuilding Iraq by vehicle demilitarization

An Iraqi worker demilitarizes an old Iraqi army vehicle as part of a combined effort [with the RSS Muleskinners of the 2nd SCR] to put Iraqis to work demilitarizing old armed vehicles.
Photo by Capt. Derek Hoffman, Reg. Spt. Sqd., 2nd SCR

A Day in the Life…Combat Medic Places Mission First

A native of Port Angeles, Wash., Staff Sgt. Craig Sotebeer, an emergency care medic with the Medical Troop, Regimental Support Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, inspects the contents of his combat lifesaver bag at the 2nd SCR Troop Medical Center in preparation for a convoy mission, Dec. 28. Since combat medics are always on call [...]

Street Festival Celebrates Reconciliation

4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs
BAGHDAD – Local Leaders with Iraqi security forces and Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers held a reconciliation street festival in the Saha neighborhood of the Rashid District, Dec. 23.
Local Iraqis as well as Soldiers from 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, and policemen from 1st Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National [...]

To Their Stations

American Samoa native, Sgt. Siatini Siatini, an infantryman with Recon Platoon, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, stands guard before a scheduled opening of an Iraqi police station in Saha, Dec. 27. The opening ceremony of the station was postponed.
Photographer: Sgt. 1st Class Robert Timmons, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Eyota, Minn., native, Spc [...]

Spreading Cheer

Command Sgt. Maj. John S. Gioia, the senior noncommissioned officer for Multinational Division - Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division passes out stockings to lower-enlisted Soldiers at the Dragons’ Lair Dining Facility at Forward Operating Base Falcon, Dec. 25. Your sharp-eyed editor spotted a Toujours Pret patch on the left arm of the Soldier reaching [...]

No let-up for Christmas for U.S. troops in Iraq

By Peter Graff
BAGHDAD, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Christmas Eve, late afternoon, and U.S. soldiers from 4th Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment piled into their Stryker armoured vehicles for a patrol out on the streets of Baghdad.
This is the fifth Christmas that U.S. troops have been out in Iraq, and commanders say the best way to keep [...]

Iraqi National Police discover two caches in Mosque in south east Baghdad

2nd Stryker Cav. Reg. Public Affairs
BAGHDAD –Iraqi National Police found two caches after receiving a tip regarding the location of terrorists near the Al-Kartheemain Mosque Dec. 24 in east Rashid.
When INP and Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers, from Company F, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment and of the 1st Company, 7th Battalion, 2nd Brigade arrived, the [...]