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Healing hands, fighting spirit: Heroic medic first responder for Combined Task Force Arrowhead

Story by Spc. Nevada Jack Smith | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 10.27.2012

“Medic!” - a shout often depicted in war movies, and often heard on the battlefield. To those at home watching, it is a sign that something bad has happened, but for Spc. Enrique Avila, it is a call to action. Read More

Charlie Company 1-64 soldiers disrupt insurgent activity in Combined Task Force Arrowhead

Story by Spc. Nevada Jack Smith | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 10.26.2012

“Our aggressiveness has completely changed the fight and what the enemy is capable of doing out here,” said Capt. Jared Graham, the company commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment,... Read More

Soldier, hero carries squad leader to safety

Story by Spc. Nevada Jack Smith | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 10.25.2012

At least once in every man’s life he is faced with a situation that tests and challenges him to his very core. For soldiers serving in the dangerous Panjwa’i district of Afghanistan, those defining moments... Read More

Sergeant Major of the Army visits soldiers in Afghan hotspot

Story by Sgt. Ashley Curtis | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 10.03.2012

After visiting several wounded Soldiers in Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Sgt. Maj. of the Army, Raymond F. Chandler III noticed that many of those soldiers were injured in... Read More

Angels of mercy: Forward Support Medical Platoon 3 saves lives in Uruzgan

Story by Spc. Nevada Jack Smith | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 10.01.2012

The sound of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter can strike fear into the heart of an enemy and inspire hope in soldiers fighting on the ground. To an injured soldier, there is no sweeter sound than the staccato thrum... Read More