Category: Deployed Forces
Practice makes perfect
Spc. Ryan Ferguson, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, demonstrates how to uses an M-136 AT4 antitank grenade launcher to Afghan National army soldiers, here, Feb. 8.
‘TF Bronco’ honors fallen heroes with remembrance run
“Task Force Bronco” Soldiers gathered to honor their fallen heroes during a special memorial ceremony and remembrance run at Forward Operating Base Fenty, here, recently.
3rd BCT security
Pfc. Joel Morsey (left), 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, uses the Handheld Interagency Indentity Detection Equipment, or HIIDE, system on a local Afghan, here, Jan. 26.
Out with old, in with new for brigade
The 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sust. Command, officially assumed responsibility for sustainment operations after a transfer of authority ceremony, here, Feb. 4.
Annual Yama Sakura concludes, offers participants cultural exchange
U.S. Army Soldiers and Japan Ground Self Defense Force, or JGSDF, members participated in Yama Sakura 61, here, Jan. 23-Feb. 6.
3rd BCT’s eyes are still on the horizon
Soldiers serving with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, “Task Force Bronco,” 25th Inf. Division, scan a mountain ridge after receiving enemy fire while conducting a patrol with counterparts of the 6th Afghan National Army Kandak, here, Jan. 17.
Look this way
Spc. Chris Stamps (left), 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, scans the retina of a local Afghan using the HIIDE biometrics system, Dec. 23, 2011, at Torkham Gate, here.
CIED course offers lifesaving training
Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are perhaps one of the greatest threats that insurgency uses against armed forces in Afghanistan, but with the counter-IED training offered, here, leaders are hoping to change that.
Purple Heart
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno (left) pins a Purple Heart medal on Cpl. Aaron Jacinto, in 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Inf. Division, during a visit to Brooke Army Medical Center, here, Dec. 5.
