Your Army continues to push out the sonsofbitches al-Qaeda in Iraq and turning neighborhoods over to Iraqis. Oh, and by the way, they’re sticking around to keep the rat bastards from coming back.
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - Just days after a major precision air strike in southern Arab Jabour to root out al-Qaeda in Iraq, combat engineers traversed the battlefield, arriving in the area to construct Multi-National Division - Center’s newest combat outpost.
Soldiers with 535th Equipment Support Company, 479th Engineer Battalion convoyed from Camp Stryker, Baghdad, 15 miles southwest to Zambraniyah in southern Arab Jabour to begin construction on Combat Outpost Meade Jan 15. Coalition Forces hit more than 40 AQI targets in an air strike Jan. 10 to secure the area in support of Operation Marne Thunderbolt.
The commanding general, MG Rick Lynch, stopped by the COP to speak with the engineers digging in reminding them they are making a difference…
“I just want to tell you I’m proud to be here with you,” said Lynch to the combat engineers gathered around him at COP Meade.” You all have had more impact than you’ll ever know … The whole world is turning right here right now at Combat Outpost Meade. We’ll fight the Global War on Terrorism here so we won’t have to fight it back home.”
And your Soldiers get it…
On site for less than two days, the engineers had already graded the ground and a significant proportion of the outer wall was completed. Soldiers constructed the wall with Hesco barriers - wire-framed, fabric-lined containers filled with dirt.
Pfc. Charles Brosnahan, from Granton, Wis., explained his unit’s mission. “We’re just trying to build up a spot so the infantry can come in, clean house and keep their sweep going to push the terrorists further away,” he said. “(Soldiers) can’t do that without a place to live, so we come out here first and build it up.”
As much as some might hate to admit it or choose to ignore it because the story doesn’t support their agenda, good things are happening over here every damned day. We will come home, but we will come home with honor having accomplished our mission. Sgt Hook out.
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