Monthly Archives: February 2008

Extremists continue hit, run attacks on Coalition Forces from Sadr City

Multi-National Division – Baghdad
Baghdad Soldiers conducting mounted patrols near Sadr City came under fire from criminal militia extremists from inside the district during two separate incidents Feb. 2-3.
Both incidents involved Soldiers with the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, working under 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. The Soldiers were not able to positively [...]

Joint patrol arrests six, find munitions

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division — Baghdad Soldiers arrested six suspected extremists and seized munitions in support of Operation Phantom Phoenix in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital, Feb. 8.
During an early morning joint patrol in northwest Rashid, Iraqi soliders from 1st Infantry Division, and 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division as well [...]

MND-B Soldiers capture suspected terrorist, high-value target

Multi-National Corps - Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
BAGHDAD - Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, 2nd Stryker
Cavalry Regiment, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, captured a
suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq leader in the Abu Ghuraib region of the Iraqi
capitol Feb. 9.
This suspected AQI operator is believed to be a key facilitator
of terrorist activities in southern Baghdad. He is [...]

Ironhorse 6 visits Iraqi market west of Baghdad

Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond (left), the commanding general of Multi-National Division – Baghdad and the 4th Infantry Division, who is a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., along with Hammond’s executive officer, Maj. Andy Gordon, a native of Hueytown, Ala., and Command Sgt. Major Anthony Diamond, Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, a native of Cedartown, Ga., [...]

MND-B DCG listens to Iraqi concerns west of Baghdad

Brig. Gen. Mike Milano, deputy commanding general, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, a native of Fort Carson, Colo., visits with Sheik Zedan at his home Feb. 9. Zedan is a local “Sons of Iraq” leader who was wounded by a car bomb Feb 3. Zedan told Milano that despite his injuries, he and his people remain [...]

A new mission for Staten Island vet severely hurt in Iraq

by Staten Island Advance
Staten Island native Lt. Ryan Miller often dreams he is back in Iraq, patrolling the streets of southern Baghdad with his buddies in the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment.
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Navy Chief Petty Officer receives Dragoon spurs, Bronze Star

Navy Chief Petty Officer Jose Garcia, a Brunswick Maine native who works as the 2nd Stryker Calvary Regiment’s Special Troops Squadron Electronic Warfare Officer, receives gold spurs for his combat time in Iraq with the Cavalry regiment. Navy Cmdr. Michael Harber from Memphis Tenn., the Regimental Electronic Warfare Officer, places a gold spur on Garcia [...]