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Commanders Review Lessons From Iraq |
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equipment and mission definition are chief concerns |
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9/22/2003 |
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By
Tom Sawyer and Andrew G. Wright
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Pictures
...continued from the main story
(All pictures courtesy
of the 130th Engineer Brigade)
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| Soldier
from the 320th Engineer Company, 565 Engineer
Battalion, surveys an area at Logistical Support Area
Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. The survey platoon has also produced
safety surveys for several airstrips in Iraq. |
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| Soldiers
from Minnesota’s National Guard, 142nd Engineer Battalion,
pour concrete pads for a high-voltage power plant. The
facility will provide power for a "tent city"
to house more than 3,000 soldiers at Logistical Support
Area Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. |
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| Among
engineer units called up from the reserves are many with
specialty skills, including firefighters, as these shown
fighting a blaze at Logistical Support Area Anaconda,
near Balad. |
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Power soldiers Staff Sgt. Brett Knutson (left) and Staff
Sgt. Mark Kromer, 249th Engineer Battalion
from Seitzingen, Germany, prepare wiring for a branch
circuit in to refrigerate Army and Air Force Exchange
Service storage containers. |
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Spc. James Abney, Mississippi’s
National Guard, 890th Engineer Battalion,
uses a pneumatic rock drill on a concrete slab. The
slabs will be used as a base for a "tent city"
which will house more than 3,000 soldiers at Logistical
Support Area Anaconda in Balad, Iraq.
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130th Engineer Brigade includes a topography
unit, the 320th Engineer Co., which provides
geospatial support and battlefield visualization tools,
including terrain analysis services and high-production
map printing, from a mobile headquarters in the field. |
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| 94th
Engineer Battalion soldiers prepare a ceiling fan for
a Baghdad middle school during a Task Force Neighborhood
mission. The twice-weekly missions brought soldiers into
Iraqi neighborhoods to clean up areas, install playground
equipment, improve hospitals and schools and create soccer
fields. |
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| Soldiers
from 565 Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer
Brigade patrol the Tigris River in Tikrit, Iraq. The company
patrolled the river 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from
April through August. |
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