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1-503 holds pre-Ranger course while deployed in Ghazni Province
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs | Date: 01.01.2013As temperatures go down across Afghanistan, lush green farmland and rocky, brown mountain peaks are now blanketed with snow. With the colder weather, many of the foreign fighters head toward warmer climates,... Read More
Why we serve: Pvt. Christopher Adams
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs | Date: 08.24.2012When U.S. Army Pvt. Christopher Adams was in 8th grade, he knew he wanted to be a paratrooper. He had just finished the HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers," about the men of the 101st Airborne Division and their... Read More
173rd, ANA commanders visit troops in Logar province
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs | Date: 08.17.2012As soldiers step out of Combat Outpost Charkh the path quickly transitions from the brown dusty roads of a village, to lush, green farmland. Today, the heat rises over 90 but that doesn’t stop the shopkeepers... Read More
Day makes difference for deployed siblings
Courtesy Story | 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs | Date: 08.12.2012U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mica Snell and his brother U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Justin Snell were born and grew up in Derby, Kan. Less than two years apart in age, they went to the same schools at the same time and... Read More
173rd returns to Logar, Wardak Provinces
Story by Sgt. Michael Sword | 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs | Date: 07.17.2012Less than two years after leaving Afghanistan’s Logar and Wardak provinces, the Sky soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based out of Vicenza, Italy, have returned. Read More
