Col. Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division and native of Harker Heights, Texas, visits Combat Outpost Blackfoot to discuss strategy with the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment in Baghdad’s Rashid District. The 2-2 SCR recently moved into COP Blackfoot and began combat operations in the east Rashid District.
Capt. Timothy Gatlin, commander of Battery C, Fires “Hell” Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, places the combat patch on one of his Soldiers during a ceremony at Camp Taji, Iraq, Oct. 14. The Houston native, along with Apai, Samoa native 1st Sgt. Peni Sua, the battery’s top non-commissioned officer, congratulated each Soldier in their battery. The ceremony was held to award the deployed Soldiers their combat patches after completing 30 days in the combat zone.
Capt. Marcus Melton, commander of “Palehorse” Troop P, 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment of Atlanta, carries blankets into a mosque during an Eid gift-giving day in Central Baghdad’s Karkh District, Oct. 14. Eid is a traditional Muslim holiday observed at the completion of Ramadan to celebrate the achievement of advanced piety practiced over the course of the previous month.
Capt. Marcus Melton, of Atlanta, commander of “Palehorse” Troop P, 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, hands off a heater to a girl to take into a mosque during Eid gift giving in Baghdad’s Karkh District, Oct. 14.
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Great job 2nd SCR - drive on!
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- Collabman
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Thanks for finding these photos. These are the kind of things we need to see and hear, but are all to often forgotten. We have to remember that within the horror of war there is good, too.
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