Daily Archives: November 6, 2007

Night Raid in Sadr City

photos by Sgt. Michael Pryor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs
Staff Sgt. Abraham Bitolas (2nd from left), of Los Angeles, Calif., a squad leader with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, briefs his squad on their mission inside a [...]

We own the night

Los Angeles native Staff Sgt. Abraham Bitolas, a squad leader with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, provides security from the air hatch of his Stryker vehicle during a night patrol through Baghdad’s Sadr City District Oct. 29. (U.S. Army photos by [...]

Personal Security

Decatur, Ala., native Sgt. Andrew Sivley (left), and Southern Pines, N.C., native Sgt. David Dickson, sniper team leaders with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, take aim at a suspiciously moving vehicle several blocks away while providing security for officials visiting a [...]

Birds inbound

Soldiers with the Vilseck, Germany-based 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd BCT, prepare to transport a wounded comrade onto a medical evacuation helicopter as it arrives at a Coalition outpost in Baghdad Oct. 31. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Mike Pryor, 2nd BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. Public Affairs)

Soldiers [...]

Dispensing inspiration from their beds

Landstuhl patients’ resolve to get back in fight in Iraq
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
LANDSTUHL, Germany – After the bomb hit, after the confusion, despite the pain, when he realized he was going to live, Spc. Sean Staggs laughed.
“I was laughing, and then I was cursing at the Iraqis”, Staggs said from his hospital bed [...]