Daily Archives: November 13, 2007

Time for Your Check-up

photos by Spc. Shejal Pulivarti, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs
Sgt. 1st Class Edward Anderson, from Bristle, Conn., greets the children lined up to get checked out by the doctors during a combined medical effort in Horse Village, Iraq, Nov. 7. The top non-commissioned officer of Troop K, Fires “Hells” Squadron, 2nd [...]

Apprehensive? Oh yes

Two children sit in front of a US soldier from 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment on patrol in Baghdad. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
In the second of his reflections, David Smith conveys the tension and nervousness of his first day out on patrol with US troops in Baghdad
by David Smith, Guardian Unlimited
The steel hatch swung up behind me [...]