Iraqi Material Vendors Tapped For Airfield Repair Project
The U.S. Army's 864th Engineer Battalion is filling 31 bomb craters in runways at a former Iraqi military airfield near Balad, north of Baghdad. The work is part of a fast-track effort to upgrade the base
Publication Date: 12 May , 2003
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Roles Change As Infrastructure Needs Begin To Be Tallied In Iraq
MOSUL--Taking small steps day by day, the U.S. Army is moving from seizing and controlling territory in northern Iraq to infrastructure improvement. Less than a month ago, Iraqi forces blew the main bridge
Publication Date: 12 May , 2003
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Iraqi Dam Has Experts On Edge Until Inspection Eases Fears
For weeks military intelligence on the Mosul Dam, a major hydroelectric and irrigation impoundment in northern Iraq, had delivered a variety of scenarios, none of them good for coalition efforts to rebuild
Publication Date: 05 May , 2003
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Bringing Baghdad Back To Life
Baghdad is struggling to advance from war to reconstruction. Coalition forces and Iraqi citizens are trying to solve the delicate calculus that transforms conquest and occupation into a sustainable liberat
Publication Date: 28 April , 2003
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Engineers Play Key Combat Roles And Pay Ultimate Price
RETURNING Engineer unit's APC moves to unit's bivouac after day-long mission.
Publication Date: 28 April , 2003
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These Seabees Are Veterans But Don't Call Them ‘Grandpa
Doug Harrington and Glenn Woodmansee, two old salts at the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Engineering Group's forward staging area in Iraq, harken back to the Seabees' early days. In World War II, 325,000
Publication Date: 28 April , 2003
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Baghdad International Airport Ready to Receive Humanitarian Aid Flights
"We expect one or two flights in tomorrow," says Air Force Col. A. Ray Myers, head of the airfield command in Iraq. Planes will initially be limited to 8,000 ft of a runway 13,000 ft long. An artillery shell caused spalling and left a
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Publication Date: 23 April , 2003
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Power Grid Is Key To Jolt Economy
In short, the restoration of electrical service will jolt the economy back to life.
Publication Date: 21 April , 2003
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Seabees Are Advancing Plans For Postwar Rehab Work
On April 13, the day before coalition forces took control of the last Iraqi redoubt, Saddam Hussein's ancestral home town of Tikrit, Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic, Capt. William L. Rudich and a handful of aides
Publication Date: 21 April , 2003
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Publication Date: 15 April , 2003
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Mobile Engineering Unit Builds Forward Communications Post
The Army's V Corps Tactical Operation Center remains in the rear, but the smaller TAC shadows the battle. It also has a little brother, called the Hot TAC, which fits into a few trucks and can be up and operating in 30 minutes. Whenever the TAC
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Publication Date: 14 April , 2003
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Navy, Marine Engineers Battle To Win Iraqi Hearts And Minds
While coalition forces to the north rolled into Baghdad, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic took a brief respite from engineering support plans for the First Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF) to advance a
Publication Date: 14 April , 2003
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Images From Baghdad International Airport
Members of 1st Platoon, Charlie Co., 54th Engineer Battalion keep a watchful eye on a landscape littered with burned vehicles and other battle debris in an area near southern Baghdad on Wednesday, April 9. There was evidence of fierce fighting f
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Publication Date: 11 April , 2003
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On Baghdad's Outskirts, Liberated Goods and Admiration For A Well-Blown Bridge Crossing
Thursday, April 10, was bargain day at the Greater Baghdad flea market–and a day for an American military engineer to admire the retreating Iraqi army's explosive demolition expertise.
Publication Date: 11 April , 2003
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Team of Seabees Draws Fire in Iraq
The Seabees have always said, "We build, we fight," but more often than not the emphasis is on construction instead of combat. Still, a Seabees recon team supporting the 2nd Marine Di
Publication Date: 11 April , 2003
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Operating Engineers 'Salt' Seabees
On the front of 33-year-old Equipment Operator Second Class Umbro's helmet is a portion Shakespeare's oft-quoted Henry V "Band of Brothers" speech. Repopularized by the late Stephen Ambrose's World War II tale and HBO series, the words
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Publication Date: 08 April , 2003
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Army Beefs Up Its Logistics
LSA Bushmaster is a low but sprawling city rising in the desert about 150 miles south of Baghdad. LSA stands for "logistics staging area," and Bushmaster is swiftly becoming just that, the hub of
Publication Date: 07 April , 2003
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Engineers Build Airstrip, Clear Baghdad Airport
"There are a lot of things happening faster than expected," said Col. Gregg Martin, commander of the U. S. Army 130th Engineer Brigade as he delivered an update to his battalion commanders Thursday morning, April 3. "This thing is going farther,
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Publication Date: 07 April , 2003
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With Few Bridges to Build, The King Bee Keeps the MEG Buzzin'
The combat engineers pulled off their daring feat flawlessly, according to intelligence reports from the front. They finished the morning of April 3, as coalition forces tightened the noose around Baghdad. Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis' 1st
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Publication Date: 04 April , 2003
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Advance Planning Helps Seabees Quickly Span Canal
MESOPOTAMIA VALLEY, IRAQ–As coalition forces pushed forward, military engineers servicing the 250-mile-long supply line must use speed and ingenuity. To devise a crossing of the swiftly flowing Saddam
Publication Date: 03 April , 2003
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Structural Engineers Guide Infrastructure Bombing
Twelve years later, however, the accuracy has improved to such an extent that military engineers now have a seat at the table, giving pilots very specific instructions for bomb placement.
Publication Date: 03 April , 2003
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Border Berms Cleared To Make Way For U.S. Invasion Of Iraq
But when the big day arrived and Col. Gregg Martin, commander of the 130th Engineer Brigade, and Sergeant Major Sergio Riddle raced to the border in a little flock of Humvees to fine tune the operation, I wondered why the colonel took
Publication Date: 31 March , 2003
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Engineers Place Pipeline That Follows Troops Into Iraq
Engineers are at work over all the battlefield and ground already crossed by advancing forces, breaking down defenses on the one hand and establishing, salvaging and repairing infrastructure and supply rou
Publication Date: 31 March , 2003
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Long Night's Journey Into Day
During the war, the Navy deployed the unit to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides; Iroquois Point, Hawaii; Marianas Islands and Okinawa. Then, as now, the median age of personnel in all the U.S. armed forces was 19 to 20. Not the Seabees, which were st
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Publication Date: 31 March , 2003
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New Program Helps Keep Experienced Soldiers in Service
CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait -- Staff Sgt. Charles Miller, a 12-year veteran in the U.S. Army's 130th Engineer Brigade, re-enlisted with some ceremony at the brigade's tactical operations center on Mar
Publication Date: 31 March , 2003
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Heavy Lift
On Monday, March 24, the unit repaired to Camp Udairi, in Kuwait, to sling-lift a dozen floating bridge components-- bays and ramps -- via helicopter to a staging area inside Iraq. A parade of helicopters was scheduled to descend on the field at
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Publication Date: 28 March , 2003
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Troops And Equipment: Good To Go
On the early morning of March 18, the night shift at the Tactical Operations Center for the 130th Engineering Brigade at Camp Virginia, Kuwait, gathered around a television to watch President George W. Bus
Publication Date: 24 March , 2003
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Engineers Support Military Advance
Army engineers put down what the Corps of Engineers claims in the longest tactical pipeline it has ever placed to fuel the convoys pushing into Iraq. It runs some 55 kilometers from a tap in a Kuwaiti line near Camp Virginia north to the border.
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Publication Date: 21 March , 2003
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The Night Before Invasion
Around 10:30 p.m. we were also startled from our cots by an artillery barrage from the south that sent projectiles ripping through the sky into Iraq. Sometimes tracers could be seen. Sometimes we could hear the impacts, but usually the noise of
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Publication Date: 21 March , 2003
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Near Northern Kuwait's DMZ, American Forces Hunker Down
Publication Date: 13 March , 2003
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In Northern Kuwait, Sandstorm Buffets Waiting U.S Troops
The first groups began going out to their assigned units on March 7, most to a huge encampment and staging area in the north of this tiny country. They deployed into the teeth of a furious dust storm that ended in
Publication Date: 10 March , 2003
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Defense Dept. Establishes Ground Rules for Reporters Covering U.S. Forces in the Middle East
The Coalition Forces Land Component Command, or "C-Flak" as it is being called, has embraced a policy of opening the door to the media that is being organized by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. The policy of of
Publication Date: 08 March , 2003
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DOD Auditors Refer Halliburton's Iraq Oil Contract to Pentagon IG
After a routine audit of Halliburton Co.'s Dept.of Defense contract to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure turned up "suspected irregularity," Pentagon auditors have referred the matter to DOD's In
Publication Date: 15 January , 2003
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Bush: Canada Eligible for Next Round of Iraq Rebuilding Contracts
President Bush said Canadian companies will be able to bid for the next group of contracts to reconstruct Iraq. At a press conference in Monterrey, Mexico, with Canada's Prime Minister, Paul Martin, Bush
Publication Date: 14 January , 2003
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