Sgt Stryker

Service members ran a race, played golf blindfolded and choked down the “nastiest” food the chow hall had to offer last December 5 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. They did all this to raise money for the Combined Federal Campaign – Overseas. Senior Master Sgt. Bryan Shipman, a superintendant of protocol with the 332nd Air [...]

A web-based project, called “30 Days Through Afghanistan,” concluded, March 15, 2010. The words, pictures and video were presented at a “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable on March 25, 2010. It was all the brainchild of Air Force Tech. Sgts. Ken Raimondi, whose background is in broadcasting, and Nathan Gallahan, a photojournalist. Both soldiers are based [...]

If you know anything about the history of Afghanistan, you know that women have been oppressed in that country for quite a few years. With the changes taking place since the fall of the Taliban in that country, things are looking brighter and brighter for women all the time. Case in point – a new [...]

The US Military – specifically the engineers – are helping rebuild in Haiti after the devastating earthquakes in Haiti on January 12, 2010. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command partnered with U.S. Navy Seebees, Air Force and Army engineers, Feb. 26, here to train Haitian engineers on building assessment ensuring Haitian citizens are living in structurally [...]

If you follow the Iraq field of operations like I do, you know we have seen success after success in that country. The media (newspapers and cable news) usually just talk about the bad things that happen in Iraq, however. Whatever the reason for this, there are good things that are happening in the country. [...]

The tragedy on January 12, 2010 was far away, but it’s the biggest tragedy on this hemisphere in a long, long time. As usually happens when world disaster strikes, the United States (and some other nations) sprung into action, making sure the people of Haiti (though they may be poor) have what they need to [...]

The Holidays are over for the most part, but most of us who spent it with our families may not have given much thought to the men and women who are still serving over in Iraq. While they work very hard over there – just look at all they’ve accomplished – they do take time [...]

January has seen explosives still being a problem in Afghanistan. On January 23, ISAF forces operating in the Garm Ser district of Helmand province discovered a large cache of homemade explosives. The estimated 310 kg cache included 36 five liter jugs of explosives and 9 kg of fragmentation. They destroyed the cache at the site, [...]

In response to insurgent tactics to place IEDs, the mission of 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion recently was to convoy to three designated positions, and build observation posts along the route known as Cowboys. These are just a few more of many OPs that have been built along the notorious route, developing a chain of security [...]

Back in September of this year, Army Specialist Tommy Turner, a combat medic attached to the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 3 convoy, had a run in with an improvised explosive device (IED) that detonated, ripping through his Humvee. As the convoy drove through an underpass in Iraq, an explosively formed projectile filled with [...]