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20 May 2013
13 January 2011
10th Mountain Division News Roundup
The Fallen
Ethan Hardin, Polk soldier, posthumously promotedNews
Therapy pool for injured soldiers opens todayTwo Veterans Reflect on Operation Desert Storm
On Jan. 16/17, 1991, American forces launched air and missile attacks on Iraqi and Kuwaiti targets, signifying the beginning of Operation Desert Storm. To commemorate the 20th anniversary, I spoke with veterans Frank Molinario (U.S. Air Force) and Joseph Chapman (U.S. Army), about their reflections on the war. Molinario served as a loadmaster on C-141B aircraft (airman) during Operation Desert Storm and is now a human resources generalist in Hobart, N.Y. Chapman was a wrecker specialist and quick reaction team leader (private second class) and continues to serve as an Army staff sergeant at Fort Drum, N.Y.
SU treating soldiers, families to basketball game
News: Gor Tepa, RC-North leaders visit coalition forces
While constructing a combat outpost along the main road that runs throughout the region, soldiers from the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division were visited by the deputy commander of International Security Assistance Force Regional Command North, U.S. Army Col. Sean P. Mulholland Jan. 9.
Mid-York Weekly
RSVP of Madison County is making plans to adopt a platoon this year and there are 3500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division 3rd Combat Brigade at Fort Drum who will deploy to Afghanistan in March. Link-ups will begin this month and donations of items to be distributed, such as toiletries, knitted hats, candies and other goodies, would be appreciated. An informational meeting on the project will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Ag Center, Eaton Street, Morrisville. For more information or to register for the meeting, call RSVP at 684-3001.
News: Coalition Works to Extend Southern Afghanistan Gains
News: Equipping a Force – ANBP Receive Vehicles
10th Combat Aviation Brigade also has a multitude of pictures for us.
Fort Drum Boss has pictures from the ongoing renovation.
12 January 2011
10th Mountain Division News Roundup
Biden Visits with 10th Mt. Div. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Col. Burns attends DeRidder City Council meeting
Colonel Francis Burns, Garrison Commander at Fort Polk, attended his first DeRidder City Council meeting as an ex-officio member on Monday night.
Preliminary OK given for Drum housing
News: ISAF Assists Nahr-e Shahi District Community
News: Mentorship Sets Afghan National Police Up For Success
Face of Defense: Crew Chief Ensures Pilots’ Safety and News: Kiowa crew chief ensures pilots’ safety, two stories on same topic.
Soldiers Can Be Entrepreneurs Too - Setting Up Websites Is a Passion for One Airborne Soldier
Fort Polk MWR tells us about the Army Wife Network coming to post.
2-30 Infantry Battalion gives us news about some dolls that are in, the Commissary having some produce issues and tickets for an MMA event.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division has a story about returning soldiers and soldiers helping the Afghan people.
Col. Burns attends DeRidder City Council meeting
Colonel Francis Burns, Garrison Commander at Fort Polk, attended his first DeRidder City Council meeting as an ex-officio member on Monday night.
Preliminary OK given for Drum housing
News: ISAF Assists Nahr-e Shahi District Community
News: Mentorship Sets Afghan National Police Up For Success
Face of Defense: Crew Chief Ensures Pilots’ Safety and News: Kiowa crew chief ensures pilots’ safety, two stories on same topic.
Soldiers Can Be Entrepreneurs Too - Setting Up Websites Is a Passion for One Airborne Soldier
Facebook Pages
10TH Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York tells us about a town hall meeting today and also gives us a picture from Iraq.Fort Polk MWR tells us about the Army Wife Network coming to post.
2-30 Infantry Battalion gives us news about some dolls that are in, the Commissary having some produce issues and tickets for an MMA event.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division has a story about returning soldiers and soldiers helping the Afghan people.
11 January 2011
10th Mountain Division News Roundup
News
Guest essay: "A message of thanks from the front" By Capt. Michael RichardsonFort Polk Heroes recognized
Photos: Czech Republic Air Force Unit Receives 10th. Mt. Div. Patches
'Soldier 101' class set Feb. 15 to help understand the Army
Facebook Pages
1-87 IN/1BCT/10MTN DIV has a multitude of pictures on their page from Afghanistan.2-30 Infantry Battalion has news about a strong bonds retreat for couples and
Fort Drum Fmwr has news about a Fort Drum ACAP Career Fair and other upcoming events.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division has pictures from COL Thomas Matsel's Promotion, January 10, 2011.
09 January 2011
Pfc. Ira B. Laningham, IV
From www.leesvilledailyleader.com
On Sunday, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of two soldiers assigned to Fort Polk who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Ethan C. Hardin, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Pfc. Ira B. Laningham, IV, 22, of Zapata, Texas died Jan. 7 of wounds suffered at Logar Province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk.
Updated stories
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valleycentral.com
krgv.com
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On Sunday, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of two soldiers assigned to Fort Polk who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Ethan C. Hardin, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Pfc. Ira B. Laningham, IV, 22, of Zapata, Texas died Jan. 7 of wounds suffered at Logar Province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk.
Updated stories
mysanantonio.com
valleycentral.com
krgv.com
krgv.com
Spc. Ethan C. Hardin
From www.leesvilledailyleader.com
On Sunday, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of two soldiers assigned to Fort Polk who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Ethan C. Hardin, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Pfc. Ira B. Laningham, IV, 22, of Zapata, Texas died Jan. 7 of wounds suffered at Logar Province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk.
On Sunday, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of two soldiers assigned to Fort Polk who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Spc. Ethan C. Hardin, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Pfc. Ira B. Laningham, IV, 22, of Zapata, Texas died Jan. 7 of wounds suffered at Logar Province, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked their unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk.
10th Mountain Division News Roundup
News
Clarence K.K. Chinn takes over command of JRTC and Fort PolkPleasantville students get close-up view of Afghanistan scars
On Andrew Taylor’s right shoulder are tattoos of an eagle and a biohazard sign. Next to them is another mark he got in Afghanistan that he will carry with him for the rest of his life.
Rita Taylor’s eighth-grade social studies class at Pleasantville Middle School gasped when the 22-year-old soldier showed them the image — displayed on a big screen — of the red-purple scar where a bullet flew out of his shoulder Nov. 12.
Joint Effort Opens Road in Gor Tepa
News: Development efforts continue through quick impact projects
The staff of 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, from the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, operating in Faryab Province in Regional Command – North, Afghanistan, have facilitated avenues for providing low level community development.
On leave from Afghanistan, solider gets chance to go duck hunting
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Marc Howle of Pace, Fla. is home for two weeks from his duties as an engineer/patoon leader of an obstacle-clearing unit in central Afghanistan.
The main obstacles the platoon helps clear are explosive devices hidden by what Howle describes as "bad apples" littered among the otherwise peace-yearning Afghan population.
The devices are set in roads used by U.S. forces attached to the 10th Mountain Division in the Logar region. Howle's men find the devices, then call in a specially trained team that uses robots to set explosives and detonate them.
Fort Drum team pee wees named national finalists
Uso-Fort Drum-Karen Clark tells us about a new activity on Thursdays for the troops.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division has several stories for us from Afghanistan.
07 January 2011
10h Mountain Divivion News Roundup
News: Joint Mission Secures Foothold in Gor Tepa and Joint Mission Secures Foothold in Gor Tepa
Afghan national security forces along with members of the International Security Assistance Force began a major security operation recently in the Gor Tepa region of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.
The combined operation, which began Dec. 28, is focused on denying insurgents freedom of movement throughout the area.
Members of the Afghan national police, Afghan national army and local Arbaki fighters have partnered with soldiers of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment from the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team in order to bring security to the region.
Winter operation
Afghan National Army soldiers took the lead as U.S. and Afghan soldiers quietly moved from the gates of the combat outpost, over fields and through villages toward know hostile regions of their operations area, Dec. 19.
Soldiers of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division – Task Force Storm - and Afghan National Security Forces soldiers and policemen pushed through western Baraki Barak on a six-day foot patrol to eliminate Taliban influence and establish a Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan presence.
Internet series tracks soldier from Salinas Valley to Afghanistan
The nation is watching former King City High School basketball and track standout Francisco Narewski getting wide notice from his post in snowy Afghanistan.
Narewski is a U.S. Army staff sergeant.
He's part of a combat unit being tracked in a New York Times series, "A Year at War."
The paper's Internet reports feature the sights and sounds of Narewski's unit, offering viewers, including his family, one more way to see what such young soldiers endure.
Teamwork, Reintegration Weaken Taliban in Northern Afghanistan
Connecting the North Country Community to our Neighboring Ft Drum: This is a Solider 101
Do you feel like you are in the dark when it comes to our neighboring Fort Drum military?
The North Country community will now have the opportunity to learn a little more about our troops and their lives.
Fort Drum Army Family Team Building is now accepting registrations for a class designed to answer questions about our neighbors on Fort Drum.
news briefs 1-7
A Change of command ceremony for the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk’s commanding general takes place today at 10:30 a.m. at Honor Field. Brig. Gen. James C. Yarbrough relinquishes command to Brig. Gen. Clarence K.K. Chinn.
Face of Defense: Soldier Prepares for Recording Contract
The origin of Army Spc. Brian Stowe’s military career isn’t much different from other soldiers’ stories.
Stowe, of Elkmont, Ala., joined the Army in June 2008 and attended basic and advanced individual training as a human resources specialist at Fort Jackson, S.C.
He has deployed twice since his enlistment. He spent seven months in Iraq and now is deployed to Forward Operating Base Shank here with Task Force Knighthawk, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 10th Combat Aviation Brigade.
Soccer game brings Afghans, coalition soldiers together on Christmas Day
Fort Drum medic on 'Yes to the Dress'
Jennifer Brooks is used to thinking quick on her feet as a medic with Fort Drum's 479th Engineer Battalion. That skill came in handy when she had to think fast last spring after her beau proposed to her.
3-71 Cavalry Regiment "Titans" 10th Mountain Division,FT Drum,NY has a flyer in reference to their upcoming deployment.
Task Force Spartan has pictures from a birthday party for Soldiers sing 'Happy Birthday' to Master Sgts. Draught and Rivas along with some photos from Afghanistan.
Afghan national security forces along with members of the International Security Assistance Force began a major security operation recently in the Gor Tepa region of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.
The combined operation, which began Dec. 28, is focused on denying insurgents freedom of movement throughout the area.
Members of the Afghan national police, Afghan national army and local Arbaki fighters have partnered with soldiers of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment from the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team in order to bring security to the region.
Winter operation
Afghan National Army soldiers took the lead as U.S. and Afghan soldiers quietly moved from the gates of the combat outpost, over fields and through villages toward know hostile regions of their operations area, Dec. 19.
Soldiers of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division – Task Force Storm - and Afghan National Security Forces soldiers and policemen pushed through western Baraki Barak on a six-day foot patrol to eliminate Taliban influence and establish a Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan presence.
Internet series tracks soldier from Salinas Valley to Afghanistan
The nation is watching former King City High School basketball and track standout Francisco Narewski getting wide notice from his post in snowy Afghanistan.
Narewski is a U.S. Army staff sergeant.
He's part of a combat unit being tracked in a New York Times series, "A Year at War."
The paper's Internet reports feature the sights and sounds of Narewski's unit, offering viewers, including his family, one more way to see what such young soldiers endure.
Teamwork, Reintegration Weaken Taliban in Northern Afghanistan
Connecting the North Country Community to our Neighboring Ft Drum: This is a Solider 101
Do you feel like you are in the dark when it comes to our neighboring Fort Drum military?
The North Country community will now have the opportunity to learn a little more about our troops and their lives.
Fort Drum Army Family Team Building is now accepting registrations for a class designed to answer questions about our neighbors on Fort Drum.
news briefs 1-7
A Change of command ceremony for the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk’s commanding general takes place today at 10:30 a.m. at Honor Field. Brig. Gen. James C. Yarbrough relinquishes command to Brig. Gen. Clarence K.K. Chinn.
Face of Defense: Soldier Prepares for Recording Contract
The origin of Army Spc. Brian Stowe’s military career isn’t much different from other soldiers’ stories.
Stowe, of Elkmont, Ala., joined the Army in June 2008 and attended basic and advanced individual training as a human resources specialist at Fort Jackson, S.C.
He has deployed twice since his enlistment. He spent seven months in Iraq and now is deployed to Forward Operating Base Shank here with Task Force Knighthawk, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 10th Combat Aviation Brigade.
Soccer game brings Afghans, coalition soldiers together on Christmas Day
Fort Drum medic on 'Yes to the Dress'
Jennifer Brooks is used to thinking quick on her feet as a medic with Fort Drum's 479th Engineer Battalion. That skill came in handy when she had to think fast last spring after her beau proposed to her.
3-71 Cavalry Regiment "Titans" 10th Mountain Division,FT Drum,NY has a flyer in reference to their upcoming deployment.
Task Force Spartan has pictures from a birthday party for Soldiers sing 'Happy Birthday' to Master Sgts. Draught and Rivas along with some photos from Afghanistan.
03 January 2011
10th Mountain Division News Roundup
Post Newspapers
The Mountaineer OnlineFort Polk Guardian
Facebook Pages
10TH Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York and 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division give us some pictures of Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in Afghanistan.Bravo Troop, 3/89 Cav, 4th Brigade 10th Mountain Div., Fort Polk, LA gives us news about W-2's for military members, a picture of Lt. Col. Phillip Chambers, commander of 3rd Squadron 89th Cavalry Regiment playing kickball and a link to their online newsletter.
News
TF Shooter Soldiers earn Purple HeartsTwo Cavalry troopers of 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Shooter, were awarded Purple Hearts in a ceremony at Jalalabad Airfield Dec. 30.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of Combined Joint Task Force 101 and Regional Command East, presented Purple Hearts to U.S. Army 1st Sgt. David E. Lee from Valley Springs, Ark., of C Troop, TF Shooter, 10th CAB; and U.S. Army Spc. Matthew J. Riddle from Greenfield, Ind., of D Troop, TF Shooter, 10th CAB, for wounds received in the defense of Forward Operating Base Fenty Nov. 13.
Polk soldiers celebrate mass in Afghanistan
Rescuing animals is family affair
Rescuing animals is a family affair for the Elliotts, who are stationed at Fort Polk.
Originally from Michigan, the family has moved frequently, and has been in Louisiana nearly two years.
Shannon works at the Humane Society of West Louisiana Adoption Center.
Her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Andreas Elliott, is currently serving in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army mechanic assures Afghans retain the power of information
The three-kilowatt generator lay dormant, except for the periodic clicking of the starter as the radio station's staff worked feverishly to restart their much-needed electric power source; thereby, restoring an equally needed information source for the people of Baraki Barak.
Just then, U.S. Army Cpl. Mitchell A. Weaver, a wheeled vehicle mechanic assigned to Task Force Storm's Company F, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, arrived in a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. The Williamsport, Md. native broke out his pliers, wire stripers, multi-meter and a fully charged replacement battery, working silently and vigorously to find the source of the generator's failure.
U.S. Army Spc. Mark E. Fielding provides security for Afghan National Security Forces on day five of a six-day dismounted operation in Logar province, Afghanistan, Dec. 23, 2010. Fielding is assigned to the 10th Mountain Division's Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, Task Force Storm.
Binghamton's WBNG TV, and Press and Sun Bulletin have stories about Ft Drum soldiers spending New Year's eve in Binghamton.
Another story associated with above.
TF Storm Soldiers work to secure local economy
News: Afghan police take lead in key-leader engagement
Photos
Sweeping Taliban Influence From Baraki BarakU.S. Army Spc. Paul M. Cattorn, a Peru, Ind., native and squad automatic weapon machine gunner assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Storm, provides security for Afghan national security forces on day two of a six-day dismounted operation here, Dec. 20. Soldiers of Company C and ANSF pushed through western Baraki Barak on a six-day foot patrol to eliminate Taliban influence and establish an Afghan government presence.
Photo: On Watch
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