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[Army Times - News] Faster, lighter, better equipment in war zone - Army News, news ...: In all, the Army spent about $4.4 million to buy 500 sets of designer equipment chosen by the veteran warriors of the Asymmetric Warfare Group to outfit most of the grunts in 2-12th, and part of a couple of others, 3-61st Cavalry and 1-12th Infantry. 2-12th scored about 300 sets of what they call the REF gear.

[War On Terror News] Iraqi Army, Texas Soldiers Provide Humanitarian Aid to Farmers ...: One line of children excited to receive a new soccer ball and backpack, in the second, adults in the village lined up to receive food and water, from soldiers with the 3rd Brigade, 12th Division Iraqi Army and 'Blackhawk' Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Bravo Troop, 6th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, out of Fort Bliss, Texas, April 30.

[Coalition] » To all Americans read this and even other nationals maybe you ...: “American soldiers played with our lives like boys playing with flies.” Chun Choon-ja - a 12-year-old Korean girl in 1950 survivor of the No Gun Ri massacre ....

[War On Terror News] Tennessee Guardsmen Run the Country Music Marathon in Iraq - War ...: CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq ”” Soldiers of 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Tennessee Army National Guard, with the 13th Sustainment Brigade (Expeditionary), laced up and hit the roads to do a "shadow run" of the Country Music Marathon on Saturday, April 24 at COL Q-West, a base in Northern Iraq.

[Muslim Defense News] The toughest area of Kandahar: Remi described the Taliban fighters in the area, who've repeatedly lobbed rocket propelled grenades and planted homemade bombs in the surrounding fields, as tougher than some of the insurgents he faced in Iraq. "A lot of the training here is a lot .

[Iraqs Inconvenient Truth :: Iraq War News Updates] US, Iraqi Forces team to hone critical skills « Iraqs Inconvenient ...: The Soldiers, from 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and members of the 2nd Iraqi Federal Police Division, demonstrated their ability to assault an objective, perform first aid, evacuate casualties by either air or ground and perform riot control procedures.

[theleadonline.org] Iraq: 1/14 Cav. Delivers Unexpected Surprise | theleadonline.org: 04.14.2010  DIYALA, Iraq - Eager faces peeked through the windows as the students tried to catch a glimpse of the Tibij Iraqi police and Soldiers with 2nd Platoon, Troop C, 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

[War On Terror News] Iraq News - March 28, 2009 - War On Terror News: Getting Iraq’s citizenry involved in securing their own homeland has been the 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division’s focus since they assumed responsibility of the southern Iraqi tri-province region last June. 

[PGR - Confirmed Missions] Richard A. Curry, USMC, Vietnam Veteran, Belton, TX, 03 MAY 10 ...: Riding In Memory of my Great Grand Father, John Perry Sanderson, Texas Cavalry Regiment, Civil War. Father, PO1 Weldon A.

[World Politics Review: Blog] WPR Article | Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan: An ...: Petraeus implemented by focusing first on providing security to the population, the additional troops he had with which to implement that strategy, the tribal outreach we both took advantage of and encouraged, the Sunni awakening, and the "Sons of Iraq" flipping from fighting with al-Qaida to fighting against al-Qaida, and the subsequent decision by Sadr and the Shia militias to renounce armed violence and take political action to achieve their objectives -- all of those things factor in to the success of the surge. I would say that the mental construct that Gen.

[NH Tea Party Coalition] Military Mobilizing Against Grandma - NH Tea Party Coalition: In September, 2008, the Pentagon announced the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team would be deployed in the United States under the control of Northcom. “They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack,” the Army Times reported.

[A Ct Patriot's Blog] (VIDEO) U.S. Army Trains To Confront Tea Party 'Terrorists', Take ...: “Designed to test the limits of officers’ physical, mental and emotional endurance, the emerging Army exercise offered a revealing window onto modern combat training in the era of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Chris Kenning wrote for the newspaper. “Over three days last week, participants had to crawl on their bellies under real machine-gun fire, shimmy commando-style over a single rope high in the air and march for more than 22 miles through forests.”

[SWJ Blog] The Death of the Armor Corps (SWJ Blog): Army transformation has reduced the armor signature, increased the number of reconnaissance organizations without properly resourcing those reconnaissance elements with the ability to fight for information, diminished the Army’s capabilities to guard, cover, or conduct thorough zone reconnaissance with the planned elimination of the last Armored Cavalry Regiment, reduced the ability to establish habitual air/ground unit relationships, and, finally, taken away Brigade through Corps Commanders’ abilities to fight for information, establish, explore, and answer

[War On Terror News] Iraq Military News - March 21, 2009 - War On Terror News: “Six years ago today, Coalition Forces embarked upon a noble and worthy effort to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of a ruthless dictator,” Austin said.  “For the last six years, we have been hard at work trying to create sustainable security, to rebuild the Iraqi Security Forces, and to set the conditions for this young government to mature while we helped with reconstruction initiatives. 

[FreeWestRadio.com] FreeWestRadio.com » Blog Archive » U.S. Army Trains To Confront ...: QRF, short for the Quick Reaction Force of the 16th Cavalry Regiment and the 194th Armored Brigade were placed on two hour recall. “The 26 April order gives specific instructions for the 5-15 CAV (a 16th Cavalry battalion) to have weapons, ammo, vehicles and communications at ready, and it places the other 2,200 members of the units on two-hour recall.

[The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Santa Ana] Accidental shooting kills decorated soldier | lopez, parents ...: The regiment was sent into Iraq shortly after the war began in 2003. Lopez never spoke much about the war, but his parents gleaned a few stories from him: The night he spent lying silently in the sand, waiting to move forward –

[OPINION] OPINION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, both operating in eastern Baghdad under the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, along with their Iraqi counterparts from the 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st Division National Police, were conducting a coordinated raid as part of a planned operation when they were attacked by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Coalition Forces returned fire and called in attack aviation reinforcement.

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