Photo Credit: Senior Airman Michael WykesSaturday, November 7, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Iraqi Kids Day
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Heather Norris, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing
Two Iraqi children play during Iraqi Kids Day. Joint Base Balad hosted 125 children, parents and officials, increasing community relations with surrounding villages.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Just being kids
Photo Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Edwin L. WristonLocal Iraqi children run and play in Radwaniyah, Baghdad.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Bnaslawa Girls School
Photo Credit: Pfc. Justin Naylor, 1st Cavalry DivisionZahra Azadin, 14, stands in front of her new school in the Bnaslawa District of Erbil.
Zahra is one of 1,600 female students who began attending the school."There was a lot of overcrowding in this area," said Lt. Col. Timothy Quinlan, who helped oversee the project from June 2008 to April 2009 while serving in Erbil with the 304th Civil Affairs Brigade.
"This is a growing community and the governor wanted to put schools in the poor neighborhoods that needed them most," Quinlan said.
Opening a school of this size and quality in a downtrodden neighborhood like Bnaslawa demonstrates to the people that the government really cares, according to Quinlan.
"This school will serve 1,600 females," said Quinlan. "The schools they [females] had before were the most in need of repairs."
Overcrowding had gotten so bad that the government had to contract private homes in the community to use as schools, according to Quinlan.
"Day by day, the population of Erbil grows," said the mayor of Erbil, Hussein Katari. "We needed more schools."
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Me and My Shadow
Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Alex Licea
Spc. Jonathan "Tito" Taylor leans against a rock wall as an Iraqi girl overlooks his shoulder during a combined foot patrol in the town of Salman Pak, Iraq, located 30 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Iraq Army Soldiers and paratroopers assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division ? Baghdad, conducted these patrols frequently in order to deter any enemy activity in the area.Sunday, September 13, 2009
Barcelona Boy
Photo Credit: US Army
A local child wears a U.S. Army kevlar helmet,
Iraqi police and U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, interview candidates for micro-grants in Altun Kupri, Iraq,Fist Bump
Photo Credit: Pvt. Jared N. Gehmann
Sgt. Richard Grimsley greets a young Iraqi girl during a checkpoint patrol, in the Ma'dain region, located outside eastern Baghdad.
Staff Grimsley, of Charleston, S.C., is a squad leader assigned to Troop A, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. Prior to moving to the outskirts of eastern Baghdad, Troop A operated in the heart of Baghdad's Rusafa District.
Never Forget
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Robert Jordan.In remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Army Maj. Marty Reigher salutes the national colors flown above Forward Operating Base Falcon, Baghdad, Sept. 11, 2009.
Reigher is an information operations officer assigned to Headquarters Company, 30th Heavy Brigade Team.Sunday, September 6, 2009
Playing soldiers in Iraq
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Ali E. Flisek
An Iraqi Soldier plays with a local boy during a combined clearing mission in the village of Ibrahim Jassim in the Diyala province of Iraq.
The Iraqi Soldier with the 4th Battalion, 18th Iraqi Army Brigade had a combined clearing mission with U.S. Soldiers from Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
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