News Call Change of Command for Operation New Dawn

The September 1 name change from fantry Division, taught a week-long of human terrain teams (HTTs), spe- Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation EOD refresher course for Iraqi police cially trained groups of American sol- New Dawn, coupled with the transfer officers in Ramadi. Later that month, diers and civilians with expertise in of command of U.S. Forces-Iraq from soldiers of 1st Advise and Assist cultural awareness who interview lo- GEN Raymond T. Odierno to GEN Brigade, 3rd Infantry, helped an ISF-led cal populations in Iraq and pass on in- Lloyd J. Austin III, signified a shift in humanitarian aid mission near Bagh- formation about their culture and way the mission of U.S. forces in Iraq. The dad. The Iraqi forces were in the lead as of life to commanders on the ground. mission now is to advise and assist medical care was administered and That information helps commanders Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) so that they food and school supplies were distrib- make more informed decisions that are prepared to take over when the uted, and they reconnected with the lo- reflect cultural awareness and sensi- U.S. military leaves by the end of cal population and gained credibility. tivity. As of early October, there were 2011. The Army is leading that mis- They also gained experience in plan- about 15 HTTs operating in Iraq. Sim- sion in many ways. ning and resourcing such missions. ulated towns and provinces at the In September, the 731st Explosive Another way U.S. forces in Iraq are U.S. Army National Training Center at Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company, evolving to effect a responsible trans- Fort Irwin, Calif., provide a training 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd In- fer of power to ISF is the development venue for the teams. U.S. Navy/Spec. Chad J. McNeeley U.S. Army GEN Lloyd J. Austin III (left), commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq (USF-I), accepts the command colors from U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, commander of U.S. Central Command, as Army GEN Raymond Odierno (right), the outgoing commander of USF-I, looks on during the change-of-command ceremony at the Al Faw Palace in Bagh- dad in September. The ceremony marked the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the start of Operation New Dawn.

November 2010 I ARMY 7 The Campaign for Kandahar. In late David H. Petraeus, visited Forward Hood barracks, and to touch base with September, some 8,000 U.S. troops, Operating Base Wilson outside of Kan- soldiers in the rank of sergeant and be- most of them soldiers of the 2nd Bri- dahar City, U.S. troops had pushed low who live off post. He also charged gade Combat Team (BCT), 101st Air- several miles south of the base. GEN them with reviewing the lists of sol- borne Division (Air Assault), out of Petraeus handed out eight medals for diers who have registered privately Fort Campbell, Ky., launched attacks valor and 11 Purple Hearts. “The eyes owned weapons. to reclaim the strategic southern of the world are on you,” he told sol- Some 46,000 to 50,000 active duty province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in diers of the 2nd BCT, 101st Airborne. officers and soldiers work at the instal- an operation called Dragon Strike. The Kandahar campaign, he said, is lation. Based on the Centers for Dis- The goal is to break the back of the the equal of any fight since 2001, in- ease Control and Prevention estimate insurgency and turn the war around cluding the capture of Baghdad and of of 11.5 suicide deaths per 100,000 peo- by reclaiming the birthplace of the Fallujah, Iraq. ple, this year’s suicide rate at Fort Taliban. Hood is nearly four times the national Operation Dragon Strike is centered Suicides Spike at Fort Hood. Four sol- average. It is indicative of the rate in on the Zhari District of Kandahar diers stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, ap- the Army as a whole. The Army re- Province, the first district west of Kan- parently shot themselves in a single ported 140 active duty suicides in 2008 dahar City, where a mountain pass al- late-September weekend, bringing to and 160 in 2009, when the service’s lows access to the city. U.S. and Cana- six the number of suspected suicides suicide rate exceeded the national av- dian troops have been in the area for under investigation at the Army’s erage for the first time. There were 11 years but have never had the power to largest U.S. base; 14 have been con- confirmed Fort Hood suicides in 2009; clear and hold territory. With the addi- firmed there since January 1. All four in 2008 there were 14, the highest tional U.S. troops that were part of apparent suicides were decorated vet- number on recent record. President Obama’s “surge,” plus thou- erans of combat tours in Iraq or Af- Last year Fort Hood opened its Re- sands of Afghan forces that trained ghanistan. All were men; they ranged siliency Campus, a multifaceted facil- with U.S. units, the soldiers pushed in age from 24 to 39. Two were fathers, ity dedicated to physical and mental into territory long controlled by the and two had been in counseling. well-being and offering diverse pro- Taliban in an attempt to limit access In response to the apparently unre- grams designed to support soldiers and movement along the Arghandab lated deaths, Fort Hood senior com- and their families. MG Grimsley spoke River, which runs north and west of mander MG William F. Grimsley di- to members of the media from the Fort Kandahar City and serves as a major rected all brigade-level commanders Hood campus in the week following traffic route for insurgents. and their command sergeants major to the suicides. “It’s personally and pro- Violence has escalated in Kandahar, search for at-risk soldiers from com- fessionally frustrating for anyone as a but by early October, when the top pany to brigade levels, to conduct leader,” he said. “Every one of these is U.S. commander in Afghanistan, GEN health and welfare checks in all Fort tragic.”

A U.S. Army soldier from 1st Battalion, 102nd Infantry Regiment, 86th Brigade Combat Team, prepares to treat an injured Afghan man in Afghanistan in late September. U.S. Army/ SPC David A. Jackson Army/ SPC David U.S.

8 ARMY I November 2010 GENERAL COMMAND SERGEANTS MAJOR CHANGES* OFFICER CHANGES*

GEN C.F. Ham LTG F.J. Grass, *Assignments to general officer slots an- from CG, US- ARNG, from Dir. of nounced by the General Officer Manage- AREUR and Sev- Ops., J-3, US- ment Office, Department of the Army. Some enth Army, Ger- NORTHCOM, Pe- officers are listed at the grade to which they many, to Cmdr., terson AFB, Colo., CSM R.P. Black- CSM D.R. Felt are nominated, promotable or eligible to be USAFRICOM. to Dep. Cmdr., US- wood from from USAG, Fort frocked. The reporting dates for some offi- NORTHCOM/Vice Headquarters, V Hood, Texas, to cers may not yet be determined. Cmdr., U.S. Army Corps, Campbell IMCOM-West Element, NORAD, Barracks, Ger- Region, San An- Peterson AFB. many, to USCY- tonio, Texas. BERCOM, Fort Belvoir, Va.

I IMCOM—Installation Management Com- mand; USAG—U.S. Army Garrison; US- CYBERCOM—U.S. Cyber Command. *Command sergeants major positions as- signed to general officer commands. LTG J.D. Johnson LTG C.M. MG A.M. Bartell MG R.B. Brown from Dep. CG, I Scaparrotti from from CG, USACC, from CoS, US- Corps and Fort CG, 82nd Airborne Fort Monroe, Va., AREUR and Sev- Lewis, Fort Lewis, Division, Fort to Dir., J-3, USF-I, enth Army to CG, New Health Command. The U.S. Army Wash., to CG, Eighth Bragg, N.C., to OND, Iraq. MCoE and Fort Public Health Command (USAPHC) U.S. Army/CoS, CG, I Corps and Benning, Fort UNC/CFC/USF-K. Fort Lewis. Benning, Ga. (Provisional), formed by integrating the U.S. Army Center for Health Pro- motion and Preventive Medicine with U.S. Army Veterinary Command (VET- COM), attained initial operating ca- pacity in October and is slated to reach full operational capability in Oc- MG S.F. Cambria MG D.B. Lacque- MG J.M. McDon- MG R.J. Sherlock tober 2011. from Dep. Dir., Cen- ment from Dep. ald from Dir., J-3, Jr., USAR, from Combining the capabilities and ter for Spec. Ops., Dir., SIGINT Direc- USF-I, OND, to Dir. for Plans and USSOCOM, Mac- torate, NSA, Fort CG, USACC, Fort Programs, US- knowledge of the two old commands Dill AFB, Fla., to Dir. Meade, Md., to Monroe. AFRICOM, Ger- into the new public health command for Ops. and Logis- Dir. of Ops., J-3, many, to CoS, tics, USAFRICOM, USCYBERCOM, USAFRICOM. will broaden its experience and yield Germany. Fort Meade. improved services to consumers. Brigadier Generals: P.M. Churn Sr., USAR, from Dir., Afghanistan Detention and Correction Advisory The transition to USAPHC should Team, CJITF-435, Kabul, Afghanistan, to Dep. Cmdr., (TPU), 200th MP Cmd., Fort Meade; G.B. Davis cause few problems in service. While Jr. from Dep. CoS for Ops. and Intel., G-3/G-2, ARRC, Germany, to Chief, C/J-5, IJC, OEF, Afghanistan; J.A. Davis from Dep. Cmdr., JTF-GNO, DISA, Arlington, Va., to Dir., Current Ops., J-33, USCYBER- the command is provisional, its cus- COM, Fort Meade; D.J. Dire, USAR, from Cmdr., (TPU), 330th Medical Bde., Fort Sheridan, Ill., to Dep. tomers and those of VETCOM will deal Cmdr., MSE, 807th MDSC, Salt Lake City, Utah; J.H. Doty Jr., USAR, from Cmdr., (TPU), 420th Engr. Bde., Bryan, Texas, to Senior Cmdr., Fort Carson, Fort Carson, Colo.; R.E. Dziedzicki, USAR, from with the same contacts in the same lo- Cmdr., (TPU), 307th Med. Group, Columbus, Ohio, to Dep. Cmdr., MSE, 3rd MDSC, Forest Park, Ga.; cations as usual. When the health com- J.J. McGuiness from Asst. Dep. for Acquisition and Systems Mgt., OASA (AL&T), Washington, D.C., to Dep. Cmdr. for Programs, CSTC-A, OEF; H.E. Miller Jr., ARNG, from Dir., Doctrine, Training, and Force mand becomes fully operational, it will Development (J-7), NGB, Arlington, Va., to Sen. Cmdr., Fort Drum, Fort Drum, N.Y.; R.E. Ridge from include a headquarters at Fort Sam Cmdt., USAFAS, FCoE, Fort Sill, Okla., to Cmdr., TF 2010, OEF; M.H. Shields from Dir., NJOIC, J-3, The Jt. Staff, Washington, D.C., to Dep. Dir., JIEDDO, Arlington, Va.; C.L. Taylor from Dep. Dir., Ops. and Houston, Texas; an Army Institute of Training, JIEDDO, Arlington, to Asst. Div. Cmdr., 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea. Public Health at Aberdeen Proving I ARNG—Army National Guard; ARRC—Allied Rapid Reaction Corps; CJITF—Combined Joint In- Ground, Md.; five public health re- teragency Task Force; CSTC-A—Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan; DISA—De- fense Information Systems Agency; FCoE—Fires Center of Excellence; IJC—International Security gional commands (three in the conti- Assistance Force Joint Command; JIEDDO—Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization; nental United States and two abroad); JTF-GNO—Joint Task Force—Global Network Operations; MCoE—U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence; MDSC—Medical Deployment Support Command; MP—Military Police; MSE—Medical and 14 public health districts. Support Element; NGB—National Guard Bureau; NJOIC—National Joint Operations Intelligence In October, USAPHC (Provisional) Center; NORAD—North American Aerospace Defense Command; NSA—National Security Agency; OASA (AL&T)—Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology); launched a web site that makes Army- OEF—Operation Enduring Freedom; OND—Operation New Dawn; SIGINT—Signals Intelligence; related public health information more TF—Task Force; TPU—Troop Program Unit; UNC/CFC/USF-K—U.N. Command/Combined Forces Command/U.S. Forces-Korea; USACC—U.S. Army Cadet Cmd.; USAFAS—U.S. Army Field Artillery accessible than before. Visitors to the School; USAFRICOM—U.S. Africa Command; USAR—U.S. Army Reserve; USAREUR—U.S. Army site—http://phc.amedd.army.mil— Europe; USCYBERCOM—U.S. Cyber Command; USF-I—U.S. Forces-Iraq; USNORTHCOM—U.S. Northern Command; USSOCOM—U.S. Special Operations Command. will find information on veterinary medicine, deployment and environ-

10 ARMY I November 2010 AIT Platoon Sergeant of the Year. SSG Amanda Kokkonen, an advanced individ- ual training (AIT) platoon sergeant with Company A, 344th Military Intelligence Battalion, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, was named the 2010 AIT Platoon Sergeant of the Year at Fort Mon- roe, Va., in late August. LTG Mark P. Hertling (left), deputy commanding general for Initial Military Training (IMT), U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, and CSM John R. Calpena, IMT senior enlisted advisor, presented the award.

invasion, while British Prime Minister Winston Churchill argued that it would divert military resources needed in Italy. Although it was a

U.S. Army/Frank Brown U.S. large and complex operation, it re- mental health, diseases and conditions, were part of the liberation of Paris 10 mains largely unknown. and workplace safety and health. An days later and also opened up a sec- During the ceremony at Arlington interactive map locates local DoD vet- ond front in France with port facilities Cemetery, GEN Carter F. Ham, com- erinary treatment facilities throughout in the city of Marseilles. manding general of U.S. Army Eu- the world. The web site is only one ex- Dragoon was controversial because rope, told the veterans, their families ample of the ways in which the new GEN Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme and French officials present that to- USAPHC (Provisional) will offer broad- commander of Allied forces in Eu- day’s servicemembers “are heirs of a ened capabilities, more comprehen- rope, approved it after the Normandy proud legacy.” sive solutions, and standardized poli- cies, procedures and practices to its consumers.

Dragoon Veterans Honored. Veterans of Operation Dragoon, sometimes called the second or forgotten D-Day, were honored in August during a three-day commemoration that in- cluded a wreath-laying at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., and a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in nearby Northern Virginia. Outpost 5845 Europe, Society of the 3rd Infantry Division, hosted the event. Operation Dragoon was the Allied in- vasion of southern France commanded by LTG Jacob L. Devers that began on August 15, 1944. Elements of the U.S. Seventh Army led the amphibious as- sault, followed by a force made up of mostly French First Army soldiers. More than 90,000 U.S. troops from the 3rd, 36th and 45th Infantry Divisions fought along with the French. They moved north against German opposi-

tion, freeing French towns, to link up Army/Alex McVeigh U.S. with units fighting eastward from Nor- More than 20 veterans from Operation Dragoon, the World War mandy. The successful advance in- II Allied invasion of southern France, salute during the playing of spired French resistance fighters who the national anthem at Arlington National Cemetery in August.

November 2010 I ARMY 11 Army Casualties in Afghanistan The following U.S. Army soldiers were reported killed in Operation Endur- ing Freedom from August 1 to September 30, 2010. All names have been re- leased through the Department of Defense; families have been notified. SSG Vinson B. Adkinson III, 26 CPT Jason T. McMahon, 35 SGT Raymond C. Alcaraz, 20 SPC Pedro A. Millet Meletiche, 20 PFC John E. Andrade, 19 PFC Diego M. Montoya, 20 LTC Robert F. Baldwin, 39 SPC Donald S. Morrison, 23 SGT Marvin R. Calhoun Jr., 23 SSG Jaime C. Newman, 27 MAJ Paul D. Carron, 33 SGT Andrew C. Nicol, 23 SPC Andrew J. Castro, 20 PVT Adam J. Novak, 20 PFC Benjamen G. Chisholm, 24 1LT Mark A. Noziska, 24 COL Doug Wheelock

PFC Chad D. Clements, 26 PFC James A. Page, 23 NASA SPC Chad D. Coleman, 20 PFC Jaysine P.S. Petree, 19 TMA-19, in June and first served as a PFC Paul O. Cuzzupe, 23 SSG Joshua D. Powell, 25 flight engineer on Expedition 24 of the PFC William B. Dawson, 20 PFC Bradley D. Rappuhn, 24 ISS before taking command of Expedi- SGT Steven J. Deluzio, 25 PFC Bryn T. Raver, 20 tion 25. As part of his current mission, SGT Patrick K. Durham, 24 SFC Edgar N. Roberts, 39 he participated in the longest expedi- SSG Derek J. Farley, 24 SPC James C. Robinson, 27 tion crew space walk in history (8 PFC Matthew E. George, 22 SPC Justin B. Shoecraft, 28 hours, 3 minutes) and the sixth longest CPT Dale A. Goetz, 43 SGT Mark A. Simpson, 40 in spaceflight history. SFC Ronald A. Grider, 30 SPC Deangelo B. Snow, 22 There are now four active duty SSG Casey J. Grochowiak, 34 SPC Tristan H. Southworth, 21 Army astronauts and one Army astro- SPC Joshua A. Harton, 23 PFC Clinton E. Springer II, 21 naut candidate. Of the roughly 15 PVT Charles M. High IV, 21 SPC Michael L. Stansbery, 21 Army astronauts who have served, SSG James R. Ide, 32 SGT Kyle B. Stout, 25 most graduated from West Point and SSG Jesse Infante, 30 MSG Jared N. Van Aalst, 34 the majority have been test pilots. SPC Timothy L. Johnson, 24 PFC Barbara Vieyra, 22 COL Wheelock graduated from the SGT Christopher N. Karch, 23 CWO Matthew G. Wagstaff, 34 Academy in 1983 and the U.S. Army SSG Kevin J. Kessler, 32 CPT Ellery R. Wallace, 33 Flight Training Course in 1984. COL SGT Aaron K. Kramer, 22 1LT Todd W. Weaver, 26 Jeff Williams, now retired, was the SGT Martin A. Lugo, 24 SSG Matthew J. West, 36 first active duty Army officer to live PFC Alexis V. Maldonado, 20 SPC Christopher S. Wright, 23 aboard the ISS for months at a time— CWO Jonah D. McClellan, 26 1LT Eric Yates, 26 from March through September 2006. COL T.J. Creamer recently spent six months on the ISS, returning in June. COL Wheelock visited the ISS as a Army Casualties in Iraq mission specialist in 2007 and con- ducted three space walks. He is sched- The following U.S. Army soldiers were reported killed in Operations Iraqi uled to return to Earth aboard TMA- Freedom and New Dawn from August 1 to September 30, 2010. All names 19 in late November. have been released through the Department of Defense; families have been notified. M198 Howitzer Retired. In retirement SGT John F. Burner III, 32 SGT Brandon E. Maggart, 24 ceremonies throughout the military in SPC John Carrillo Jr., 20 PVT James F. McClamrock, 22 September, the M198 howitzer fired SPC Faith R. Hinkley, 23 PFC Gebrah P. Noonan, 26 its final rounds. The M198 has been SGT Ryan J. Hopkins, 21* SPC Jamal M. Rhett, 24 replaced by the BAE Systems Global SGT Philip C. Jenkins, 26 SPC Marc C. Whisenant, 23 Combat Systems M777 ultra light- weight howitzer. *SGT Hopkins’ death occurred in January. The M198, a medium-size towed ar- tillery piece, has served the American military—primarily the Army and Ma- Army Astronaut Commands. In Sep- command the International Space Sta- rine Corps—for more than 30 years. tember, COL Doug Wheelock became tion (ISS). COL Wheelock launched The M777 is smaller and approximately the first active duty Army astronaut to aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, 40 percent lighter. (

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