Monthly Archives: December 2007

Sunni, Shia Iraqis March Together in Baghdad for Peace

Story, photos by Sgt. James P. Hunter
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division Public Affairs
BAGHDAD — Approximately 1,000 Iraqi citizens, of both Shia and Sunni religions, joined together on the sectarian fault line in Rawaniyah, the Karkh District of Baghdad, to march with one another in what they called a “Peace March,” Dec. 19.

Police Attention Helps Burned Boy

Elgin, Ill. native Staff Sgt. Joseph Geier, a platoon sergeant for Company D, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, and a group of Iraqi national policemen with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st National Police Division, watch as a policeman gives a boy recovering from serious burns a much needed haircut, Dec. 20, in the [...]

UAV Company Provides ‘Eyes in the Sky’ for Ground Troops

Sgt. Jeremiah Bull, an unmanned aerial vehicle operator from 4th Brigade, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, assigned to Task Force XII’s Company G, ‘Guardian Angels’, pushes a UAV toward its launcher, Dec. 14. Bull is one of more than 50 Soldiers representing each of Multi-National Division-Baghdad’s six maneuver brigades who are assigned to Task Force XII, [...]

Stryker Cavalry Troops Patrol Karkh District of Baghdad

Sgt. 1st Class Leon Clayton, platoon sergeant and native of Brick, N.J., with Mortar Platoon, Pale Horse Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Stryker Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), pulls security in the Karkh District of Baghdad, Dec. 19. Approximately 1,000 Iraqi citizens, both of Shia and Sunni [...]

Colonel Jon Lehr, 73rd Colonel of the Regiment

Colonel Jon Lehr, 73rd Colonel of the Regiment and now commanding the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, which was reflagged in 2006 from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment at Ft. Lewis, talks to a Good Morning America reporter about a recent militant weapons cache discovery in which explosively formed projectiles and other explosives [...]

CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq – Gen. David Petraeus, commanding general of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, paid a visit to the 2nd Stryker Brigade [2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment] Dec. 13 to present 10 Soldiers with coins, reenlist four Soldiers and promote one to the rank of staff sergeant. “This brigade has really made a difference out here,” [...]

Suspected Terrorist Cell Leader Captured in Eastern Baghdad, Weapons Cache Also Discovered

2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs
BAGHDAD – Soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division captured a high-level target suspected of links to the al-Qaida terrorist network during an intelligence-driven raid, Dec. 12.
Soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, conducted the operation which detained the target and two accomplices [...]

Senior Leaders, Soldiers Honor the Fallen

Commanders and senior noncommissioned officers from Multi-National Division – Baghdad, Multi-National Corps – Iraq and Multi-National Force – Iraq, attend a memorial service in the Division Chapel at Camp Liberty in western Baghdad which honored all MND-B Soldiers who gave their lives during the 1st Cavalry Division’s deployment supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom 06-08, Dec. 7.
U.S. [...]