Category Archives: Site Notes

2d Cavalry Association Holds Bi-Annual Reunion

Veterans Day Weekend
by Chris Golden, Second Cavalry Association 
On 8-11 November, the 2d Cavalry Association held its bi-annual reunion at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Vienna, VA.

Airborne Brigade Celebrates Thanksgiving Day in Baghdad

Lonestar, Texas native, Col. Don Farris, commander, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, presents a commander’s coin to New York native Staff Sgt. Mekelle Hicks, a senior food sergeant with 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, during a Thanksgiving Day visit to Coalition Outpost Old-Mod in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah District Nov. 22. Looking on in [...]

Baghdad Turkey Trot 2007

 
Soldiers supporting 1st Cavalry Division and Multi-National Division - Baghdad take off from the starting line to begin the Division Turkey Trot here, Nov. 22. The Morale, Welfare and Recreation sponsored event, held Thanksgiving Morning, gave Soldiers a chance to challenge themselves and get some exercise before eating Thanksgiving dinner at the Dining Facilities. (U.S. [...]

Decay and death

David Smith reflects on the filthy state of a once-wealthy Baghdad neighbourhood and attends the memorial service for a fallen US soldier

The once well-to-do Baghdad neighbourhood of al-Hadar. Photograph: David Smith

Security in Baghdad

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Elcort from, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, talks to a crippled Iraqi boy on Nov. 20, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Photographer: Cpl. Jeffrey Sandstrum, Joint Combat Camera Center

Experts help soldiers bridge cultural gaps

photo by Seth Robson / Stars & Stripes
Human Terrain Team member Fouad Lghzaoui, left, talks to Sheik Nouri, who manages a propane distribution station in Baghdad, on Sunday. The team is charged with bringing cultural awareness to the Army.

‘I’ll be in the history books one day’

Stryker Cavalry Regiment troops on patrol in Baghdad. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini

Time for Your Check-up

photos by Spc. Shejal Pulivarti, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs
Sgt. 1st Class Edward Anderson, from Bristle, Conn., greets the children lined up to get checked out by the doctors during a combined medical effort in Horse Village, Iraq, Nov. 7. The top non-commissioned officer of Troop K, Fires “Hells” Squadron, 2nd [...]