Published: November 03, 2008
PHOTOS: Cyclone Soldiers snatch SGCs during target raids in Risalah
By Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams
1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div., MND-B
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - 1st Lt. Matthew Lacki, a platoon leader from Detroit, assigned to Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, calls into his platoon sergeant to check on the status of the target during a combat mission to detain a Special Groups criminal hiding in the Risalah community. The Soldiers of "Cyclone" Company, an armor company in a combined arms battalion, maintain a presence 24 hours-per-day in southwestern Baghdad's Rashid district to assist Iraqi National Policemen from the 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division during ongoing security operations.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - Soldiers from Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, enter an Iraqi house during an early morning raid in the Risalah community of southern Baghdad's Rashid district. Co. C, or "Cyclone," deployed to Baghdad three separate occasions since the start of the war. Soldiers of the 4th Bn., 64th Armor Regt., "Tuskers," are attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, and nearing the end of a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Tuskers are part of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Stewart, Ga.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - 1st Lt. Matthew Lacki, a platoon leader from Detroit, assigned to Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, checks his strip map by map light during a combat mission to detain a Special Groups criminal hiding in the Risalah community. The Soldiers of "Cyclone" Company, an armor company in a combined arms battalion, maintain a presence 24 hours-per-day in southwestern Baghdad's Rashid district to assist Iraqi National Policemen from the 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division during ongoing security operations.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - Staff Sgt. Michael Edwards, an infantry squad leader from Fort Stewart, Ga., assigned to Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, prepares his assault team Soldiers to breach the gate of a target raid during a raid to capture a suspected Special Groups criminal, hiding in the Risalah community of the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. The Soldiers detained the suspect actioning on precision military intelligence to pinpoint the target house and capture the criminal.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - Staff Sgt. Michael Edwards, an infantry squad leader from Fort Stewart, Ga., assigned to Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, pushes his Soldiers through the breach during a target raid to capture a suspected Special Groups criminal hiding in the Risalah community of the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. The Soldiers detained the suspect actioning on precision military intelligence to pinpoint the target house and capture the criminal.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq - 1st Lt. Matthew Lacki, a platoon leader from Detroit, assigned to Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, searches a target house for incriminating evidence after detaining a Special Groups criminal hiding in the Risalah community. The Soldiers of "Cyclone" Company, an armor company in a combined arms battalion, maintain a presence 24 hours-per-day in southwestern Baghdad's Rashid district to assist Iraqi National Policemen from the 5th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division during ongoing security operations.
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