NEWS

Daily News Top Stories Breaking News World Politics Business Growth Minute Health Food & Wine Women Women in Business Opinion Letters to the Editor High Tech Sports Horoscope Entertainment Entertainment Goss Music Features Books Poetry Movie Reviews Home & Garden Industry States UFOs Environment Education SupportOurTroops Middle East South Asia Cartoons NewsBlaze Blog Most Read

WIRES

Eworldwire Marketwire PRNewswire Send2Press Marketwire Canada 24-7 Pressrelease Newswise PR.com Realwire ACNNewswire Business Wire Africa Press NewsBlazeWire

OTHER

About Us Contact Us Feedback Writers Editors Link to Us Advertise Sitemap

PHOTOS: Joint EOD training at Baghdad Island

By Maj. Brian Carlin

1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div.

BAGHDAD- Pfc. Jamie Britton (back right), of Ontario, Ohio, an explosives ordnance detachment specialist assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st "Ironhorse" Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, supervises as Lt. Mohamed Arif, an Iraqi EOD platoon leader with the 11th Iraqi Army Division, practices on the panel which controls the EOD robot as his Soldiers watch and learn. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Brian Carlin, 1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div., MND-B)

BAGHDAD-Sgt. 1st Class Bruce Mcrae (right) of San Antonio, Texas and Staff Sgt. James Bohanon (left) of Belleville, Ill., supervise an explosive ordinance disposal robot as it is controlled remotely by Iraqi Security Forces Soldiers in training. Mcrae and Bohanon are assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st "Ironhorse" Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Brian Carlin, 1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div., MND-B)

BAGHDAD-Lt. Col. Maria Zumwalt (far left), a native of Puerto Rico and commander of the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st "Ironhorse" Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, observes and discusses the effectiveness of the explosives ordnance joint training session with Lt. Mohammed Arif (center) and his Soldiers. The Iraqi platoon is assigned to the Explosives Ordnance Detachment Company, Engineer Regiment, of the 11th Iraqi Army Division and partnered with Zumwalt's Soldiers. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Brian Carlin, 1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div., MND-B)

BAGHDAD-Sgt. Jason Graham, of Covina, Ca., stands guard while explosives ordnance detachment Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st "Ironhorse" Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division conduct a joint training session with Lt. Mohammed Arif and his Soldiers. The Iraqi platoon is assigned to the Explosives Ordnance Detachment Company, Engineer Regiment, of the 11th Iraqi Army Division and partnered with the 1st BSTB, 1st BCT, 1st Cav Div. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Brian Carlin, 1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div., MND-B)