Operation Deadbluff Takes Flight in Bayji Capt
Multi-National Division - North www.1ad.army.mil Volume 2 Issue 06 Page 1 oct. 17, 2008 An “Above the Rest” Soldier of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st BCT, 101st Airborne Division aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk he- licopter during an Air Assault mission onto the banks of the Tigris River. The Soldiers conducted Operation Deadbluff along with Iraqi Army Soldiers, in an effort to reduce the number of enemy weapons caches in the area. Operation Deadbluff Takes Flight in Bayji Capt. Michael Sykes, 1st Battalion, 327th night wondering if this is the night that the Story and photo by Infantry Regiment. “What they don’t realize, 101st will come to pay them a visit,” he Sgt. Rick Rzepka said. 1st BCT, 101st Airborne Division is that we are highly mobile through the use of the Air Assault and are training the Iraqis The mission, dubbed Operation Deadbluff, to do the same,” he said. was one of many operations carried out s security continues to improve across A recent Air Assault mission, conducted by the battalion in order to sever enemy Iraq, insurgent networks are becoming A by Iraqi Army Soldiers and Soldiers from the weapons trafficking in the area. “The enemy desperate in their attempts at proliferating 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the doesn’t just stick to cities,” said Rottenberg, weapons and ammunition. 101st Airborne Division, aimed to track down “so we don’t either.” Because they have been marginalized enemy weapons caches being stored along In utilizing the Air Assault, Rottenberg’s within Iraqi society and are under constant the lush banks of the Tigris River.
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