Leaders Celebrate Water Distribution

by Pfc. Evan Loyd
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
CAMP STRIKER, Iraq (Nov. 6, 2008) – Local sheikhs, Iraqi army and Coalition Soldiers feasted in celebration of a water distribution system now complete in the Mahmudiyah Qada Nov. 4, 2008. “Before this system, some people had no water besides the dirty canal water,” said Sheikh [...]

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US, UK Reach Logistics Agreement

CENTCOM Public Affairs.
MACDILL AFB, Fla. (Nov 5, 2008) – American and British senior military officials, on behalf of their respective countries, signed the first full Implementing Agreement for logistics support in Afghanistan during a ceremony held here Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Kenneth Dowd, CENTCOM Director of Logistics, represented the U.S. in concluding the first agreement to [...]

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Petraeus Makes First Afghan Visit As CENTCOM Commander

by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Graham
Combined Security Transition Command
KABUL, Afghanistan (Nov. 5, 2008) – The new commander of U.S. Central Command met with Afghan officials here Wednesday during his first visit to Afghanistan as CENTCOM commander.
rmy Gen. David H. Petraeus, who took the command’s reins Oct. 31, met with Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim [...]

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Abandoned Carnival Becomes Public Park

by Sgt. Jerry Saslav
MND-B PAO
BAGHDAD (Oct. 30, 2008) – Dover Park, as it is known by Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers, sat abandoned for years. Located in the Qahira neighborhood of Baghdad’s Adhamiyah district, its carnival rides were unusable, and the land was overgrown with weeds. “As I drove by the Army canal every day, [...]

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JCS Chairman: Troops Out Of Iraq By End Of 2011

by Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (Nov. 17, 2008) – All American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011 under the status of forces agreement between the United States and Iraq, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen called the agreement important and one [...]

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New Courthouse Enhances Rule Of Law

by A. Al Bahrani
Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
BASRAH (Nov. 16, 2008) — The people of Al Tanoma, a city east of the Shatt Al Arab River, will soon open a new courthouse in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division.
hen the new, modern facility is completed next [...]

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Founders’ Daily Quote: 17 Nov 08

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will [...]

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Stronger Iraqi Force Means Fewer Hostilities

by Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON (Nov. 3, 2008) – The number of attacks in Iraq is at its lowest level since January 2004, and this is proof of the growing capabilities of the Iraqi security forces, the vice chief of staff of the Iraqi Joint Forces said Sunday. Gen. Nasier Abadi, briefed reporters in [...]

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Petraeus Era Begins At CENTCOM

by Sgt. Rick Nelson
CENTCOM Public Affairs
MACDILL AFB, Fla. (Oct. 31, 2008) — In a change of scenery from the deserts of Iraq to the sunny skies of Florida, Gen. David H. Petraeus took the reins of United States Central Command from acting commander Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey here during a change of command ceremony. [...]

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