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Marne Focus - 3 January 2008
Thursday, 03 January 2008
Hope grows in Salman Pak; End-of-year review: Your hard work paying off – Attacks way down; Division Soldier of Year named; No one reason explains why Soldiers re-enlist; Gen. Petraeus’ end-of-year letter: Big improvements, tough fight continues; Arab Jabour Governance Center opens...
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Hope grows in Salman Pak
FOB HAMMER – Staff Sgt. Robert Butler expresses a range of emotions when someone asks him what he thinks about Salman Pak. The platoon sergeant, from Excelsior Springs, Mo., for Headquarters Platoon, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division has handed out candy to children there, fought insurgents, lost friends and helped the National Police provide security.
End-of-year review: Your hard work paying off – Attacks way down
One year ago, the 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters was preparing for a summer 2007 deployment to Northern Iraq. When President Bush announced the Surge, the Division’s training time decreased from six months to six weeks and its area of responsibility shifted south. The 3rd Infantry Division quickly moved to stand up Multi-National Division – Center, covering Baghdad’s southern belts – the Mahmudiyah and Mada’in qadas, as well as the southern provinces – Babil, Karbala, Najaf and Wasit. In the months since, we’ve seen the course of the war change, and it's because of you.
Division Soldier of Year named
CAMP STRIKER – Sometimes it’s difficult to remedy a mistake made, a fi rst impression is often irrevocable, and restoring your reputation can be almost impossible. For Pfc. James Truitt, Company B, 603rd Aviation Support Battalion, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Inf. Div., the mistakes and errors early in his military career are only a memory after being named the 3rd Infantry Division Soldier of the Year Dec. 20 at Forward Operating Base Kalsu.
Also in this edition of the Marne Focus:
No one reason explains why Soldiers re-enlist
Gen. Petraeus’ end-of-year letter: Big improvements, tough fight continues
Arab Jabour Governance Center opens
Streetlights bring sense of safety
Soldiers continue mission after IED strike
CG visits Soldiers at PB Warrior’s Keep, tours village
UAVs give troops ‘eyes where theirs cannot see’
New patrol base named for hero
Canines – more than best friends – family
Father re-enlists son in Iraq
Double amputee walks out of hospital
