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Multi-National Division – Baghdad “First Team.....Team First” Thursday, May 21, 2009

Iraqi forces now securing historical Ziggurat at Ur

By Sgt. 1st Class Damian Steptore 4th BCT, 1st Cav. Div.

CONTINGENCY OPER-ATING BASE ADDER, Iraq — Approximately 500 attendees were on hand to see security of the well-preserved Ziggurat of Ur ceremoniously transferred back to the Iraqi security forces here May 13.

Since 2003, security of the 5,000-year-old Ziggurat has mainly been under the control of Coalition forces. However, that changed during a ceremony as one of Iraq’s most famous ar-cheological sites was officially returned to Iraqi authorities.

“What you see here today has been set up by the Iraqi people,” said Dr. Anna Prouse, the Dhi Qar Provincial Recon-struction Team leader. “We will

still be here to help out and I hope the Ziggurat will be open to the children and the general public.”

Prouse’s PRT and the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division “Long Knife” brigade assisted the Iraqi secu-rity forces and Mr. Hamdani, the Head of Antiquities in Na-siryah, to plan the event, which included various government officials and military leaders throughout central and south-ern Iraq.

“Every citizen needs to have access to this Ziggurat because education is not just in the class rooms,” Prouse added. “Educa-tion can also happen here.”

The transfer marks one of the final acts of partnership be-tween the Iraqi security forces

and the Long Knife Brigade as the unit is set to return to Ft. Hood, Texas in early June.

“I am extremely proud to personally witness this special event in honor of a site that is one of the oldest structures in

the history of the world,” said Col. Philip Battaglia, the 4th BCT, 1st Cav. Div. commander. “We will always look back on our time here as a very special moment in the history of this great nation.”

Iraqi citizens gather in front of the historical Ziggurat of Ur during a turnover ceremony at Contingency Operating Base Adder in southern Iraq. The site is now officially controlled and guarded by the Dhi Qar police and managed by the Ministry Of Tourism.

Col. Phillip Battaglia, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division commander, and various military and civilian leaders observe the historical Ziggurat of Ur turnover ceremony at Con-tingency Operating Base Adder in southern Iraq May 13.

Photo by Spc. Creighton Holub

Photo by Spc. Creighton Holub

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Cav Round-Up radio newscast availableMND-B PAO

BAGHDAD — The Cav Round-Up is a three-minute radio newscast from Baghdad covering military units and events across Multi-National Division — Baghdad.

Today’s Cav Round-Up # 71 was pro-duced by SGT Lisa Heise, MND-B Pub-lic Affairs Office.

The May 20th newscast includes the following two stories:

1. Black Knight soldiers of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat

Team take part in the changing job of the infantry.

The role of infantrymen is multi-fac-eted. It’s not about breaking down doors, but building communities.

Soldiers try to make positive contact and try to leave a positive impression. Soldiers see people at their jobs and at their homes.

Things are continually improving. Day by day they are bringing hope to the communities of Baghdad.

2. Joint Security Station Yarmouk

closes in northwest Baghdad. JSSs are-like neighborhood outposts, standing up to terrorists town by town with CF op-erating them. Yarmouk has been turned over to the town. Homes owned by citi-zens are being returned to their owners.

To hear the Cav Round-Up, click on the following links:

NIPR LINK: Cav Round-UpSIPR LINK: Cav Round-UpCheck out more news at the 1st Cav-

alry Division’s homepage:www.cavcountry.net

1-124th Cav women warriors stand guard in IraqStaff Sgt. Mark Burrell MND-B PAO

BAGHDAD — Prior to their deployment to Iraq and on a hot, summer afternoon at Fort Stewart, Ga., Texas National Guard Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 124th Cav-alry Regiment, 56th Infantry Brigade Combat, 36th Infan-try Division, donned heavy rucksacks, wore uncomfort-able body armor and carried M-4 rifles for a grueling pre-mobilization road march.

“Most of the people fell out, but I finished it,” said Spc. Janice Parisi, an intel-ligence analyst assigned to Apache Troop, 1st Sqdn., 124th Cav. Regt.“Most of the people said they would have [fallen] out if a girl wasn’t in it ahead of them.”

Historically, cavalry units, much like infantry units, don’t have many women Sol-diers, but the women warriors of Apache Troop have proven themselves worthy.

“I came from a support unit and they told us we were going to the cav and I was a little unsure,” admitted Spc. Heather Ketter, a light-wheeled vehicle mechanic from Wylie, Texas, also as-signed to Apache Troop. “But it’s been great so far!”

Ketter was raised by her brothers and that mentally prepared her for working with cavalry Soldiers and the demands of manning a guard tower at Victory Base Com-plex here.

“[My brothers and I] got to get in our fights and hang around with their friends,” re-marked a petite, blond-haired and smiling Ketter. “It helps a lot when you have to deal with the guys.”

“My brother and step-brother taught me to be tough by beating me up all the time and picking on me and not letting me get away with stuff just ‘cause I’m a girl,” added Spc. Tiffany Frenchwood, a logistical specialist assigned to Apache Troop, as a vehicle pulls up to her checkpoint and an out-stretched arm hands her a yellow gardenia. After checking their IDs, French-wood smiles and waves them through the gate.

“I give people chances, but out here you can’t be so nice because people will take that kindness for a weakness,” said Frenchwood, from Texas City, Texas. “They [people entering VBC] think they can bring me flowers and be nice, but it’s very serious out here and I got my battle buddies

on VBC sleeping, so I gotta be tough…I can’t let people in without a badge.”

Though these Soldiers all have different military occu-pational specialties, they are all infantrymen first in this cavalry regiment and stand guard against insurgents try-ing to breech VBCs defenses.

“Out here, it’s like gender doesn’t matter anymore,” ex-plained a rosy-cheeked Parisi from Fort Wayne, Ind., from behind a .50 cal machine gun. “There’s no air-conditioning and I have to wear body ar-mor, but I feel like I have a purpose out here.”

“We need to make sure the right people get on base,” said Ketter. “[Local nationals] have jobs here and we need them, but we also have to make sure the wrong people don’t get on.”

Working daily for the past 10 months with the other cavalry Soldiers has been a positive experience for these Soldiers and they have earned each other’s respect, added Ketter.

“I can’t explain it,” recol-lected Ketter as sweat dripped down from beneath her cam-ouflaged Kevlar helmet. “But you can pretty much say I’m one of the guys.”

Spc. Heather Ketter

Spc. TiffanyFrenchwood

Spc. Janice Parisi

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Engineers making a home at Carver

Photos by Scott Flenner, 225 Eng. Bde., PAO

Spc. Joseph King, of Monterey, Ca-lif., a member of the 46th Eng. Bn., 225th Eng. Bde., 1st Cav. Div., runs one of two cut stations on the construction site. Soldiers are constructing 30 B-Huts, a dining facil-ity extension and a food preparation area at COP Carv-er, located on the outskirts of south-eastern Baghdad, in preparation for the June 30 dead-line.

Sgt. Michael Wor-man, of Nampia, Idaho, connects electrical wires inside an interior light fixture before it is installed in a completed B-Hut at Combat Out-post Carver, May 18. In the next two months, these Soldiers will com-plete a total of 30 B-Huts, a dining facility extension, firing range, and a food preparation station.

Sgt. Marques Sweet, of Compton, Calif., cuts a truss cord prior to the truss being assembled on a B-Hut. Soldiers are completing the construc-tion of 30 B-Huts in preparation for additional Soldiers to move out of the cities to locations such as COP Carver by June 30.

Spc. Joseph King, of Monterey, Calif., carries wood for wall studs to a cut station so they can be sliced down to the correct length.

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On This Day In Military History1881 — In Washington, D.C., h u m a n i t a r i a n s Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross. Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, worked with the sick and wounded during the American Civil War and became known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” for her tireless dedication. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned her to search for lost prisoners of war, and with the extensive records she had compiled during the war she succeeded in identifying thousands of the Union dead at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. She was in Europe in 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and she went behind the German lines to work for the International Red Cross. In 1873, she returned to the United States, and four years later she organized an American branch of the International Red Cross. The American Red Cross received its first U.S. federal charter in 1900. Barton headed the organization into her 80s and died in 1912.

Here’s an invitation to play Wordplay!Find words inside of words.

Today’s word is: WEAPONProper nouns do not count, nor does the word shown.Words should be at least 4 letters long.Try to find 6 words. Good Luck!

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