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Soldiers Train, Live with IA Partners by Pfc Volume 1, Issue 36 January 25, 2010 Photo by Pfc. Jessica Luhrs, 1BCT, 1st AD PAO Punisher Soldiers from 3rd Plt., Co. D, 1/37th AR, 1HBCT, 1st AD, and their partners from 46th Bde., 12th IA Div. train on loading and unload- ing a Blackhawk for an air assault at their shared compound, PB Gaines-Mills, Jan. 20. Soldiers train, live with IA partners By Pfc. Jessica Luhrs, “Since we live with our partners we “I think they respect us more 1BCT, 1st AD PAO can train or go on missions anytime because we live with them,” said Pfc. the IA wants to; within minutes.” Crownover. “It allows us to assist them A single blue door separates the This is a true advantage for the anytime they need it.” 46th Brigade, 12th Iraqi Army Division Punishers and their IA partners; the Assisting their IA partners is exactly and the “Punisher” Soldiers of 3rd Pla- numbers can prove it. Together they what these Soldiers do on a daily basis. toon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 37th have been on more than 45 missions, At Gaines-Mills the infantry Sol- Armor Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade discovered nine separate caches and diers are able to train the IA Com- Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, captured many insurgents that were mando Company in everything from at their shared compound, Patrol Base involved in planting improvised explo- basic weaponry to how to conduct air Gaines-Mills. And the Soldiers here sive devices, since they arrived here assaults. The leadership for the Pun- wouldn’t have it any other way. nearly two months ago. ishers is able to provide assistance to The Punishers have more training Living together not only gives the their IA counterparts and mechanics opportunities than other elements partnership an advantage with mis- are able to give hands-on training to in Kirkuk, according to Pfc. Michael sions, but also allows the training of the IA mechanics. Crownover, a Colorado Springs, Colo., IA soldiers to be more in depth and native and a gunner for the Punishers. personable. See Partners, Page 3 The North Star Page 2 • January 25, 2010 3ID Soldier uses honesty to foster relationships By Capt. Tim Mills lenges head on and focusing the dia- could have an operation to fix his hear- 135th Mobile Public Affairs Det. logue on what will assist Iraqi leaders ing. in moving Iraq forward is what makes Staff Sergeant Henry knew there Saying “No,” is difficult. Many Staff Sgt. Henry the right person for was nothing he could do because it work tirelessly to avoid it. So what’s it the job. wasn’t a life-threatening injury. like to have a job where you can’t say, “We can’t assure them anything,” Lieutenant Colonel Ghazi Hamed “Yes?” said Staff Sgt. Henry. “We need to fo- Goma’a, station commander of the Staff Sergeant Keshon Henry is the cus on the elections. We don’t approve Al Aswar Iraqi Police Station in Al platoon leader for the 1st Personal projects as the security detachment.” Sequor, offered to relay the message Security Detachment, Headquarters Finding a break in the conversation, to the family, but Staff Sgt. Henry very and Headquarters Support Company, Staff Sgt. Henry brought the meeting deliberately said that he would go and Division Special Troops Battalion, 3rd back on track and discussed security talk to her. Infantry Division. Part of his job is to preparations for the elections. “I want her to hear it straight from meet weekly with key leaders in the As the meeting closed, Staff Sgt. me,” said Staff Sgt. Henry, who doesn’t Salah ad-Din province. Henry was notified of another situa- want the Iraqi Army or Police to have This week the room is full. The au- tion. to speak on behalf of United States dience listens as a local sheik express- In a nearby room, a mother sat on Division – North. “I’d rather they hear es his discontent with a contractor a couch with three young girls. The it from me.” from a different tribe working in their woman came to the local police station After meeting the mother, she area. His frustration is that the con- seeking care for her husband’s hearing handed Staff Sgt. Henry a packet writ- tractor is renting construction equip- problem. ten in English. He read through it, and ment and hauling sand and gravel She was told that if she acquired a explained that there was nothing he from a different tribe’s area rather letter from U.S. forces her husband could do. than “buying locally.” The disheartened woman “If he needs more nodded with understanding, shovels, he’s going back picked up her family and left to his city and renting the room. ten more shovels,” said “I wish I could help them,” Mukhtar Salam Salaman said Staff Sgt. Henry. “I wish Hamad, the Sons of Iraq I could say, ‘Yes.’ It kind of Leader of the Al Douri sucks to tell people, ‘no.’ You Tribe. “Let’s say at the want to put them in your truck, same time he needs grav- bring them back to base and el. He goes back to his say, ‘What can you do for this area and gets that gravel person?’ but you can’t.” from his area. We even However, Staff Sgt. Henry offered him a cheaper admits that by telling it like it price from our area.” is allows a person to pursue a To sit in the midst of different approach rather than discontent and not agree, place hope in a failed direction. pick a side or make a Photo by Capt. Tim Mills, 135th Mobile Public Affairs Det. “I don’t give people the run promise is a challenging Staff Sergeant Keshon Henry, (right) with HHSC, DSTB, 3rd ID, listens around,” said Staff Sgt. Henry. task, but for Staff Sgt. as an Iraqi woman requests medical assistance for her husband, Jan. 21, at the Al Aswar Iraqi Police Station in Al Sequor. As a platoon “I’m not that type of person, Henry its business as leader, Staff Sgt. Henry meets with the local sheiks and Iraqi Police so I’m not going to do that to usual. Taking these chal- commander to discuss security. them.” Battlefield promotions allow faster growth for paramount Soldiers By Sgt. Johnathon Jobson battlefield promotion program. Class Jack Cleff, the noncommissioned TF Marne PAO Battlefield promotions remove officer in charge of Task Force Marne many of the standard requirements for G-1 Human Resources Section. “For For Soldiers in the rank of ser- promotions and instead impose their example, time-in-grade and time-in- geant or below, who are deemed to be own specific requirements and restric- service don’t apply. of the utmost caliber by their brigade tions. Soldiers don’t have to be in a commander and brigade command “The biggest difference [between promotable status; they don’t have to sergeant major, certain requirements regular and battle field promotions] is appear before a promotion board and to earn the rank of sergeant or staff that some of the regulatory guidance sergeant can be waivered under the does not apply,” explained Sgt. 1st See Promotion, Page 3 The North Star Page 3 • January 25, 2010 Continued from Partners, Page 1 Captain Muhammad Husan, the Commando co. commander spoke very highly of the training that the Punish- ers hold for his soldiers. “The class that is being held today is on the last day,” said Capt. Muham- mad. “I am very confident that they have been trained so well that they will be able to come back and teach other Soldiers in the company what they have learned.” These are the results the Punishers are looking for; they want the IA to be able to stand on their own and because we train, work and live together this mission will be accomplished at a dif- ferent level then other elements in the Photo by Pfc. Jessica Luhrs, 1BCT, 1st AD PAO area, according to Sgt. Rodney Owens, A Punisher Soldier of 3rd Plt., Co. D, 1/37th AR., 1HBCT, 1st AD, and his partner from 46th a Long Beach, Calif., native, and a gun- Bde., 12th IA Div. train on loading a Blackhawk at their shared compound, PB Gaines-Mills, ner for the Punishers. Jan. 20. See Promotion, Page 3 [promotion point] cutoff scores are out promotion, Soldiers must display ex- who has not completed the Warrior the window.” ceptional leadership and performance Leader Course. However, battlefield promotions that clearly distinguish them from Non-WLC graduates promoted to are not handed out like candy. They their peers and is expected of a higher staff sergeant under the provisions are regulated at the U. S. Forces - Iraq rank. of the battlefield promotion program level and each division is only allowed One of the most important things must complete WLC within 270 days a specific amount of battlefield promo- that go into a battlefield promotion of their redeployment. Failure to com- tions. packet is the letter of recommendation plete WLC will result in an administra- “Every quarter we get allocations from the brigade commander and bri- tive reduction to sergeant unless an from USF-I as far as how many pro- gade command sergeant major, show- extension is approved. The approval motions we can give to certain rank,” ing that the Soldier is excelling while authority for the extension request for said Sgt. 1st. Class Cleff. “We break working in a grade position above the Soldiers who are beyond the 270 days them down per brigade based on unit one they currently hold, said Capt.
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