Category: Deployed Forces
84th NMCB5 communicators build bridge
During a recent training exercise, the steady buzz of radio static broke.
523rd Bulldogs make progress on Project 808
While the submarine tender vessel, USS Frank Cable, sat docked idly next to their construction site, the Soldiers of Bravo Company, 84th Engineer Battalion, were anything but stagnant.
561st Engineers participate in NTC rotation in California
Soldiers of 561st Engineer Company, 84th Eng. Battalion, 130th Eng. Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, recently returned, here, from the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, Calif., where they increased their readiness and assisted the 2nd Heavy Bde. Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, with its preparation for an upcoming deployment.
TF Hammerhead increases patient care
During the course of the last several months, two MEDEVAC companies in Task Force Hammerhead, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, and Company C, 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment, Army National Guard, have participated in a trial program developed by the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade that enables flight medics to administer blood products to wounded soldiers during the soldiers’ en-route flight care and movement to a medical facility.
TF Falcon assumes OEF aviation command
Aircraft depart daily to support ground forces in an area slightly smaller than the state of Montana.
Lightning Support welcomed home after year deployment
All of that hard work was the last thing on their minds as they saw their families and friends for the first time in many months.
45th SB transfers OEF authority
Like an early Christmas present, the transition took place on Christmas Eve.
565th Fwd. Eng. lends vital support to Afghan capital improvement projects
Army Corps’ engineers improve electric grid in Kandahar province
YIR: In Memoriam
The Army in Hawaii remembers the following 25th Infantry Division “Tropic Lightning” Soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice in 2012.
Lightning Support Soldiers honored during redeployment ceremonies
Families and friends of the 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, gathered to greet their Soldiers in two redeployment ceremonies, Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 at Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii.
