Tag Archives: Iraq
![Corporal Rocio Sanchez, electronic key management system clerk, Retrograde and Redeployment in support of Reset and Reconstitution Operational Group, Regional Command (Southwest), serves in Helmand province, Afghanistan, three years after touring with USO as a singer. Sanchez left her singing career behind to attend Marine Corps recruit training shortly after the tour ended.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130217194323im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2013/02/821310-2-183x108.jpg)
“I traded in my high heels for combat boots and my microphone for an M-16 (service rifle).”
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Posted in DoD News, Wednesday Warfighter
Tagged Camp Leatherneck, Cpl. Rocio Sanchez, Iraq, Marine Corps, USO
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![Female soldiers assigned to the 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion conduct pre-mobilization training Aug. 10, 2012. The battalion deployed to Afghanistan in October 2012. (New York Army National Guard Courtesy photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130217194323im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2013/01/130124-A-ZZ999-991c-183x108.jpg)
Women will be able to fill 350 positions in the New York Army National Guard’s four combat battalions.
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Posted in DoD News, Rotator
Tagged 101st Cavalry, 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 108th Infantry, 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Squadron, 69th Infantry, adjutant general, Afghanistan, armor, Army National Guard, Baghdad, combat, commissioned officers, Defense Department, female soldiers, infantry, Iraq, Iraqi Army, Kuwait, Maj. Gen. Patrick Murphy, military, N.Y., National Guard, New York Army National Guard, New York City, New York National Guard, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, non-commissioned officers, service members, soldiers, Special Forces, Syracuse, tank and reconnaissance units, troops, U.S. Army National Guard, U.S. National Guard, U.S. Soldiers, United States Army National Guard, United States National Guard, United States Soldiers, Utica, Women in Combat
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![Technical Sergeant David Perez(rotator)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130217194323im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2013/01/Technical-Sergeant-David-Perezrotator-183x108.jpg)
The convoy had proceeded north past a checkpoint on Main Supply Route Tampa, when the convoy witnessed a horrific, high-speed, head-on collision involving two Iraqi vehicles, each filled with passengers.
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Posted in DoD News, Rotator, Wednesday Warfighter
Tagged Air Force, bronze star, convoy, Iraq, Kalsu Air Base, Main Supply Route Tampa, military, U.S. Air Force
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![Chandler visits Regional Command South](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130217194323im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2012/12/477233rotator-183x108.jpg)
Service members of any rank or service may experience combat stress or other invisible wounds as a result of deployment.
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