Monthly Archives: April 2008

Special Troops Squadron newsletter

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MND-B Soldiers kill 9 criminals in separate clashes

Multi-National Division—Baghdad Soldiers killed nine criminals in two separate engagements April 30.
At approximately 3 p.m. in Sadr City, Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division observed criminals loading multiple rockets onto a launch sled.

MND-B soldiers find explosives cache

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – Soldiers attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, discovered a cache at approximately 3:45 p.m. in the Abu T’shir community of southern Baghdad April 28.
Soldiers from Company F, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, with the assistance of the Iraqi National Police, [...]

Warrior commander forges new friendships

Abu Azzam, a Sons of Iraq (Abna al-Iraq) leader in Ghazaliyah, north of Baghdad, raises the hand of Col. Todd McCaffrey, a native of Hudson, Ohio, and commander of 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, in a sign of a new friendship between the men April 22.
U.S. Army [...]

Gimlets work alongside IA, SoI in Nassir Wa Salam

Lt. Col. Mario Diaz, a native of Sierra Madre, Calif., talks to an Iraqi Army soldier and a Sons of Iraq (Abna al Iraq) volunteer at a joint checkpoint in Nassir Wa Salam, west of Baghdad, April 24. The checkpoint is one of the many places that the Iraqi Army and the Sons of Iraq [...]

Mullen Salutes ‘Soldier’s Soldier’ on his Retirement

U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. William J. Gainey, left, senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stand at the retirement ceremony for Gainey, at Fort Myer, Va., April 25, 2008. Gainey retired after 33 years of service. [...]

Gimlets patrol northern Juwebe to ensure safety of local residents

Soldiers of the 1st Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment “Gimlets,” 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, complete final preparations at Combat Outpost Aqur Quf, northwest of Baghdad, before departing on a route reconnaissance mission April 1.
U.S. Army photos by Spc. Dustin Weidman, 1st Bn., 21st Inf. Regt., 2nd SCR, MND-B

MND-B Soldiers capture suspected criminal

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Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
Elements from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, “Gimlets” detained a suspected criminal in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad April 22.
This suspected criminal is believed to be involved with the making of improvised explosive devices, and attacks on Iraqi Army and Coalition forces.
“The streets are [...]