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An Article in which I'm quoted

Nathan Moore — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:48:00 GMT

By: Nathan Moore
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-r-kuhn/building-bridges-by-break_b_1397483.html...read more

ILE Post - Life at USCENTCOM

William Powers — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:02:00 GMT

By: William Powers
I am currently attending ILE at Fort Gordon, GA and they have requested that all students post on a Blog. I found this website and think that it would be a great place to discuss my duties at the United States Central Command in Tampa, FL as the National Guard State Partnership Program Coordinator as well as a Central Asian Country Director. Two very interesting jobs that fell into my lap. A little about me. I served Active Duty as an...read more

Hispanic Heritage Month in San Antonio, TX

Albert Vallejos — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:26:00 GMT

By: Albert Vallejos
Greetings! Wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the Army's final event for Hispanic Heritage Month down in San Antonio, TX. We were once again pleased to participate in The Hispanic Association of College and Universities National Conference. The event took place at the Grand Hyatt and featured numerous organizations nationwide. The purpose of the conference was to further educate our Hispanic Community on the opportunities out there for them. The Army had...read more

Hispanic Heritage Month in Washington, DC

Albert Vallejos — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:16:00 GMT

By: Albert Vallejos
Greetings! I am glad to be back online to update everyone on the Army’s most recent event that took place in Washington, D.C. The Army was able to coordinate an amazing reception and dinner at the Hyatt Regency. The purpose of the dinner was to gather both military and civilian leaders and members of the local community to recognize the amazing contribution Hispanic soldiers make for our country. The keynote speaker of the event was the Under Secretary of the...read more

Hispanic Heritage Month National COI reception

David Yebra — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:08:00 GMT

By: David Yebra
This past week I had the awesome privilege of attending the Hispanic Heritage Month National COI reception in Washington, D.C. This event, hosted by the U.S. Army Accessions Command, served to highlight contributions from Hispanic Soldiers to our Nation. The Under Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Dr. Joseph Westphal and LTG Rhett Hernandez, Commanding General U.S. Army Cyber Command, attended the reception along with numerous other outstanding supporters of the Army and the efforts to...read more

Hispanic Heritage Month in San Juan, Puerto Rico!

Albert Vallejos — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:01:00 GMT

By: Albert Vallejos
Greeings! I am writing to update everyone on the event the army was able to coordinate in San Juan, Puerto Rico! The event was held on October 13th, 2011 in the Condado Plaza. The purpose was to recognize past, present and future Puerto Rican soldiers. The event was great and featured reception, dinner and great speech from keynote Speaker Retired Major General Felix A. Santoni, current Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for Puerto Rico. Also in attendance were...read more

The photos for: glimpse into the Future Afghan Artillery

Nathan Moore — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:11:00 GMT

By: Nathan Moore
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A glimpse into the future: Afghan Artillery

Nathan Moore — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:55:00 GMT

By: Nathan Moore
A glimpse into the future: Afghan Artillery Afghan National Security Forces are just beginning to take a serious leadership role in the war on the Taliban and Haqqani networks. Though the Afghans have always fought, they lack the sophistication of a modern fighting force. Step by step they are becoming a sharp and well disciplined machine. What they are lacking throughout the ANSF is viable, accurate and timely fire support systems. That’s where I come in. My unit is partnered...read more

Afghans make the Boom

Nathan Moore — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:19:00 GMT

By: Nathan Moore
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Cooler weather

Bradley Palmer — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:23:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Hey everyone. It has been an eventful few months! Lots of successful missions from the men in B/6-4 CAV. And lots of successful FIRE MISSIONS by the men of 1/A/1-6 FA. We have stayed busy indeed. We have had a lot of good times and we have built up the Gunline in the meantime as well. We now have our own MWR room complete with a 42" TV just waiting on a game system to complete the mix. The room was built entirely by the Soldiers of 1st Platoon with the guidance and support of some...read more

Smooth transition to rockets, recoilless rifles, and mortars - Oh my!

Bradley Palmer — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:08:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Well it has definitely been a while since my last post, but in my defense things have definitely been picking up! My counter part [LT Sasaki] and I have traded positions, moving him into the FSO slot and myself into the Platoon Leader/FDO slot. The change is going well, and each of us is excited to work with new groups of Soldiers and see Artillery life from different perspectives. I'm just glad we both get to stay out here and not have to switch to different COPs! We have steadily been...read more

Busy = Good

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:24:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
The days going by faster and faster. Some days are long, but because there is so much to do it seems like there isn't enough time to get it all done! But we always make it happen. It's good to be busy because it makes the time go by fast. It's crazy to sit down and just think about how much we've accomplished since getting here 4 1/2 months ago. Tons. It is pretty cool also to be able to say that during my first deployment US Forces took down Osama Bin Laden....read more

Blog break

Bradley Palmer — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:43:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Decided to take a break out of today for a short blog session. Woke up. Ate some awesome food products that the lovely wife sent from home. Fruit cocktail, pop tarts, V8 fruit fusion. Delicious. Had some meetings. Caught up with some of my recent ANA friends. Pretty cool. I mean how many people do you know that have friends in the Afghan National Army? Interesting guys. The language barrier isn't really that big a deal. Tried to learn how to play their dice game. I taught them...read more

Do work

Bradley Palmer — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:58:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
With all the talk of the pay freeze going on back home it seems like its been ruffling a few feathers. There's a lot of negative talk around the media and on the internet. I stopped for a minute to reflect, and I can't help but to have noticed one thing - that despite the possibility that our Soldiers may not be receiving pay on the 1st or 15th for the work they do, they still do it. With a positive outlook and a "roger that" our Soldiers get the job done....read more

Intro

Ben Sasaki — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:12:00 GMT

By: Ben Sasaki
Hello Everyone! I wanted to introduce myself with my first post. I'm a Platoon Leader here in Afghanistan in charge of two 105mm howitzers. We provide covering fire for our maneuver guys and base defense. At times we're extreamly busy and others extreamly bored. I'm not going to complain though since with the last of the snow melting the weather here has been fantastic! Take care! Ben...read more

90 days down

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
So the first 90 days are down. The OPTEMPO is up now. The fighting season has started. Everyone is staying busy here. The internet is getting better than it was when we got here. Can't complain. Mail takes a while to get here so that is really the only big issue we have. Other than that things are great! Just waiting for leave now ha ha. Well gotta hit the gym. Talk to y'all later! Brad...read more

Retiring

Santos Alvarado — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:14:36 GMT

By: Santos Alvarado
Retiring and finding is even hard for those that were carreer status Government employees prior to returning to active duty....read more

Another day down

Bradley Palmer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:47:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
Well its been a few days since I last posted! Its been busy. Internet has been up and down. Got a new cook. He made some awesome stuffed bell peppers the other day that tasted amazing!! That was cool. Just running patrols and what not. The days are blowing by super fast so thats good. Hopefully it keeps up like that, I'm sure it will. The gym is still the place to be when I have downtime. I can see how ppl get huge over deployment bc thats the only thing there is to do for fun! But its...read more

Night before deployment

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:59:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
http://armystrongstories.com/blog-assets/bradley-palmer/files/VID00002.MP4 This is the night before deployment. Anxious and excited for the next day.. Brad...read more

1st deployment - Transit

Bradley Palmer — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:34:00 GMT

By: Bradley Palmer
The video posts begin!! They're gonna be a little of order sorry about that. They'll be up for whoever wants to get a better idea of what a 1st deployment is like. This was me in Manas during transit with a couple of my NCOs. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100522181989984 Brad...read more