Category Archives: Site Notes

Teamwork helps find answers about cache find

Multi-National Corps, Iraq PAO
BAGHDAD - The 18th Military Police Brigade and Multi-National Division, Baghdad troops worked together to find answers about a weapons cache discovered near the Provincial Directorate of Police headquarters building in Baghdad Nov. 5.

Soldiers Help Al Doreen Prepare for Winter

U.S. Army Capt. Edmond Hardy of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Outlaw Troop commander holds a local child and her new toy monkey while giving orders during an aide mission in the Al Doreen neighborhood of Iraq, Oct. 14. Outlaw Troop handed out blankets, toys and kerosene heaters in preparation for [...]

Pale Horse Troop Finds Two Caches Buried in Soccer Stadium

Story by Spc. Alexis Harrison
BAGHDAD - Soldiers from Troop P, 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, currently attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, found two caches of weapons and explosives while on patrol in the Ramaniyah neighborhood, Nov. 5.

Help Needed

The Association History Center is sadly in need of someone to work on compiling our regiment’s Gulf experience. Anyone interested, please contact the History Center editor Dave Gettman.

Night Raid in Sadr City

photos by Sgt. Michael Pryor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs
Staff Sgt. Abraham Bitolas (2nd from left), of Los Angeles, Calif., a squad leader with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, briefs his squad on their mission inside a [...]

We own the night

Los Angeles native Staff Sgt. Abraham Bitolas, a squad leader with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, provides security from the air hatch of his Stryker vehicle during a night patrol through Baghdad’s Sadr City District Oct. 29. (U.S. Army photos by [...]

Personal Security

Decatur, Ala., native Sgt. Andrew Sivley (left), and Southern Pines, N.C., native Sgt. David Dickson, sniper team leaders with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, take aim at a suspiciously moving vehicle several blocks away while providing security for officials visiting a [...]

Birds inbound

Soldiers with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd BCT, prepare to transport a wounded comrade onto a medical evacuation helicopter as it arrives at a Coalition outpost in Baghdad Oct. 31. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Mike Pryor, 2nd BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. Public Affairs)