| Posted on: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
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Golden Dragons display quick-strike capabilities |
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When Schofield Barracks soldiers came calling on Amadiyah — a Northern Iraq town of 20,000 — in the middle of the night, it was with a show of firepower its residents will not soon forget. The 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Golden Dragons were there to capture seven midlevel targets — and send a message to those who support insurgents. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, April 11, 2004 |
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Death leaves troops bitter, wary |
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Spc. Jarod Myers stared at the 8-by-10 photo, rocking on his heels, drawing his hand over his face, then jamming his hands in his pockets as he tried to control his anguish and make sense of why his best friend was gone. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 |
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Hawai'i troops shifted to volatile Mosul area |
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Nearly a battalion's worth of Schofield Barracks soldiers have been shifted out of the 2nd Brigade's operating area and temporarily assigned to help the Stryker Brigade in the increasingly volatile Mosul area. |
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| Posted on: Monday, April 5, 2004 |
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Security corps gradually building |
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Coalition forces have helped the mission of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, and now they are desperately seeking something in return: a trained Iraqi national security force that can take over the job American troops have largely performed for the past year. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, April 4, 2004 |
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Schofield troops lining up for home leave |
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Spc. Evaristo Arellano looks forward to holding his newborn daughter for the first time, and seeing if her green eyes are the same as his wife's. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
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11 Schofield soldiers injured in rocket attack |
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Eleven Schofield Barracks soldiers were injured last night when what was believed to be a 107 mm rocket exploded in a military housing area. None of the injuries was life-threatening. |
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| Posted on: Monday, March 29, 2004 |
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Hawai'i-based troops mount 'Operation Aloha' |
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Early in the war in Iraq, an aggressive use of force was standard operating procedure; attacks on American troops were met with withering return fire. A year later, and with insurgency replacing full-scale war, the 25th Infantry Division (Light) is trying a new approach. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
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It's Mililani vs. Roosevelt in this village in a distant corner of Iraq |
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Sgt. Nolan Heanu graduated from Roosevelt High School, 1st Lt. John Song from Mililani. In a war zone on the border of Iraq and Iran, the good-natured battle being waged is the Rough Riders vs. the Trojans. That's how it goes in the northeastern Iraqi village of Khurmal. |
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Two Iraqis with ties to Hawai'i troops gunned down |
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Two Iraqi policemen — twin brothers who both had wedding plans this week — were shot and killed at a busy intersection yesterday in continuing violence aimed at Iraqis working with the United States. |
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| Posted on: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
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'Happy, you'll be missed' |
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Under a clear blue sky yesterday at a small U.S. outpost in northern Iraq, Schofield Barracks soldiers gathered to say goodbye to Pfc. Ernest Harold Sutphin — the first fatality of their yearlong deployment — as their brother, their roommate, their friend. |
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| Posted on: Monday, March 22, 2004 |
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Hawai'i troops at Iran's doorstep |
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The Coalition Provisional Authority earlier this month announced a new policy to tighten border security to stem the flow of terrorists and foreign fighters entering the country — something the 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery unit already had started. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
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Security tight as Kurds mark 1988 attack |
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Terrorism by groups such as Ansar al-Islam is something U.S. forces and Kurds want to prevent in Iraq's border city of Halabja. Schofield Barracks soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, travel every four days to the mountainous border region with Iran from Sulaymaniyah, primarily to work with the new Iraqi Border Patrol. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
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Hawai'i soldier glad to be back with unit after setback |
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It's the kind of military honor Staff Sgt. Christopher Hendry could do without. The 35-year-old Schofield Barracks squad leader likely will be one of the first 25th Infantry Division (Light) soldiers to receive a Purple Heart in the Tropic Lightning division's biggest combat deployment since the Vietnam War. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, March 14, 2004 |
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Troops mop up and rebuild after the war |
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A year after the United States launched the first strikes in Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 19, 2003, the job for soldiers is different, but often no easier. |
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| Posted on: Friday, March 12, 2004 |
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3 wounded Schofield soldiers should recover |
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Three Schofield Barracks soldiers whose car was ambushed on a city street Monday in an unusually brazen attack are expected to recover from their injuries, officials said. |
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Hurt soldier's wife 'worried ... proud' |
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Elouise Burks received word at that her husband, a forward observer attached to Company B, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, suffered multiple gunshot wounds after the convoy he was traveling in came under small-arms fire in Kirkuk. |
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| Posted on: Tuesday, March 9, 2004 |
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Three Schofield soldiers injured in Iraq shooting |
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Three Schofield Barracks soldiers remained hospitalized today following a firefight yesterday evening in which their vehicle came under small arms fire on a crowded city street. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, March 7, 2004 |
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Commander's apology to villager wins new support for Hawai'i unit |
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Guided by an Iraqi's good intentions and by satellite coordinates, the soldiers dug first with their hands, uncovering the Katushya rockets buried in a field that looked no different from the dozens surrounding it in the farming countryside. |
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| Posted on: Friday, March 5, 2004 |
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Base exchange rolls in with goodies |
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Spc. Stan Matlock had a 12-pack of Pepsi in one hand and a package of Chips Ahoy cookies in the other, all the while exuding what most people — outside of a war zone — would consider out-of-proportion joy in purchasing them. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2004 |
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Outsiders draw attention of troops |
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With foreign influence and suicide bombings on the rise — particularly against Iraqis cooperating with the coalition — the presence of foreigners in Iraq highlights new concerns in a country still trying to make the transition from war to peace. Schofield Barracks soldiers are working with local police to stabilize the region. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, March 3, 2004 |
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Schofield soldier may face court-martial in shooting |
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A Schofield Barracks infantryman faces possible court-martial for shooting and killing an Iraqi man while he was being apprehended in a search for terrorists southwest of Kirkuk, a U.S. military commander said. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, February 29, 2004 |
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Saddam allies ready to give up their fight |
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Dozens of former high-ranking Baath Party officials, including three generals and several colonels in Saddam Hussein's army, came to the tomato-and-watermelon-farming village of Helwe Wosta to see one man: Lt. Col. Scott Leith. |
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Probe finds shootings of civilians by Schofield soldiers were justified |
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An investigation of the shooting of several Iraqi civilians conducted by the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, the unit involved, has found that the "soldiers did the right thing," Maj. Scott Halstead, adjutant of the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light), said. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
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Closing the bomb 'supermarkets' |
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To find bomb-making materials — the kind that take the lives of Americans and Iraqis every week — you don't have to go far. Several days a week, Schofield combat engineers head out to the countryside to destroy leftover munitions, piling up the shells, wiring them with lots of C4 plastic explosives, and detonating the stocks with thunderous booms that send mushroom clouds hundreds of feet in the air. |
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| Posted on: Monday, February 23, 2004 |
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Bomb kills 10 at Kirkuk police station |
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Ten people were killed and 45 were wounded this morning in the first suicide bomb attack against an Iraqi police station in this northern city. No U.S. soldiers were injured. |
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Rare Iraq snowfall lifts troops' spirits |
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Schofield Barracks soldiers have experienced blowing sand in Kuwait, bone-chilling rain followed by lots of mud in Kirkuk, and they know it gets to be 120-plus degrees in the summer. But what came yesterday afternoon was yet another surprise in Iraq: a snowstorm. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, February 22, 2004 |
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Soldiers take on duties of departing brigade |
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For the 173rd Airborne Brigade, it's the end of a mission that began almost 11 months ago with a night parachute drop into uncertainty in Bashur in northern Iraq. For the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division (Light), it's a chance to maintain and build on a fragile peace that holds in Kirkuk among its multiethnic population of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and Assyrians. |
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| Posted on: Friday, February 20, 2004 |
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Soldiers adjust to new 'crate homes' |
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Saddam Hussein, sporting aviator sunglasses and a black beret, smiles upon Pfc. Patricia Rodriguez every day on her way to work with the 25th Infantry Division (Light). Graffiti by hundreds of occupying U.S troops cover the billboard-sized visage of Saddam, a mural that wouldn't have been touched a year ago. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
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Charlie Company goes on a raid |
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Schofield Barracks-based soldiers recently conducted a midnight raid on a village on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq. The mission by soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, was one of a series of raids intended to reduce the threat of insurgents in the area. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, February 15, 2004 |
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Hawai'i troops learn to adjust to major Iraq responsibilities |
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Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry is a Quick Reaction Force, ready to roll on 20 minutes notice to conduct a raid. And, it's responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of everything from police and fire service to schools and roads in the southwest sector of the city, a mostly poor Arab part of town with 300,000 people. |
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| Updated on: Saturday, February 14, 2004 |
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2 Schofield soldiers wounded |
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A 21-year-old private first class from Schofield Barracks was shot in the arm, and a 35-year-old staff sergeant received an eye injury in attacks in northern Iraq this week, officials said. |
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| Posted on: Friday, February 13, 2004 |
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Learning ins, outs of insurgency |
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The ins and outs of insurgency are lessons the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment "Gimlets" from Schofield Barracks will have to learn in a hurry in Kirkuk. The 173rd Brigade will soon pull out of northern Iraq after more than 10 months of duty. |
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Brute force isn't always a necessity during searches |
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Not every house search for weapons or insurgents — and there are many of them conducted by U.S. forces — requires a SWAT-team, bust-down-the-door approach. Often with routine checks, U.S. soldiers ask if they can come in. |
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| Posted on: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
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Hawai'i troops venture into Kirkuk |
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The two-story stucco house with the black marble pillars out front once was a vacation retreat for "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin and the man believed to have ordered chemical attacks on Kurds in 1988. Now the house is a police station, a mural on the stage backdrop depicts Kirkuk's multiethnic population, and it just got a visit from the new law in town. |
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| Posted on: Sunday, February 8, 2004 |
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Three Schofield convoys arrive safely in Kirkuk |
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Operation Koa, the first combat mission for the 25th Infantry Division (Light) in Iraq, is a success. The last of three Schofield Barracks convoys, totaling more than 700 vehicles, pulled into northern Iraq bases yesterday, delivering upwards of 2,500 soldiers to what will be their new home for the next year. |
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| Posted on: Thursday, February 5, 2004 |
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Task Force 1-21 quietly enters Iraq |
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For the Hawai'i soldiers of Task Force 1-21 rolling through the desert by convoy, the 600-mile trip to northern Iraq began in Kuwait with an historic send-off and a night spent under the stars only hundreds of yards from the no-man’s land that marks the border. |
