European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages round gets 1st combat use in Iraq stars and stripes troops with the 1st brigade combat 1st Cav Alry division have become the first american unit to fire in combat a new artillery round with extended Range military officials said the xm982 a 155 my extended Range was fired at a suspected insurgent Safe House in the Northern Region of Baghdad ear Lier this the round was fired by troops with the 1st Battal 82nd Field artillery after soldiers from the the 1st 7th cavalry regiment secured the site and posted an Over watch of the officials the House was about two Miles from Camp Courtesy of the army an xm982 Excalibur precision guided artillery round Falls onto a suspected insurgent Safe House North of Baghdad earlier this the owner of the targeted House had been previously detained on charges of murdering several and was allegedly captured on video dumping bodies into the Tigris destroying the Safe House is part of a larger Effort to keep insurgents from having Sta ble places to plan or meet after officials this could be a tool we use in the future to precisely eliminate enemy Safe weapons or whatever the Case May Kevin commander of the 1st 7th Cav Alry was quoted As the artillery troops trained with the new round which hits a target almost directly vertically before their current internal Marine document details How red tape kept gear for troops by Richard Lardner the associated press Washington the system for delivering badly needed gear to marines in Iraq has failed to meet Many urgent requests for equip ment from troops in the according to an internal Marine corp of More than 100 requests from deployed Marine units Between february 2006 and february less than 10 percent have been Ful the document it blamed the bureaucracy and a risk averse approach by acquisition process worship cripples operating according to the Doc civilian Middle manage ment lacks technical and operation Al the 32page document was pre pared by the staff of the 1st Marine expeditionary Force after they re turned from Iraq in the document was to be presented in March to senior officials in the pentagons defense research and Engi Neering the presentation was cancelled by Marine corps leaders because its contents were deemed too according timely Purchase and employment of All systems bureaucratically assessment in a Marine corps document to a defense official familiar with the the official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it the document lists 24 examples of equipment urgently needed by marines in Iraq Anbar the mine resistant ambush protected has received at Tention As a promising Way to protect troops from Roadside the leading killer of forces in the Marine corps instead Pur chased improved versions of the Robert chief of Marine corps Public of said Cost was not a Factor in choosing the this was not a budgetary Mil Stead said you can take that to the the internal Howe states that the Cost of building new vehicles was a primary reason the request was denied by the Marine corps combat development command in needs of the deployed troops Are competed against funded pro the document resistance costs it unnecessary delays cause Friendly and innocent iraqi deaths and a second example cited is the compact High Power laser an nonlethal tool for steering unwelcome vehicles away from checkpoints in the Dazzler emits a powerful Stream of Green Light that stops or redirects oncoming traffic by temporarily impairing the Drivers in june marines stationed in Western Iraq filed an urgent re quest for several Hundred of the the request was repeated nearly a year timely Purchase and employ ment of All systems bureaucratically the document friends mourning Soldier found dead in Iraq by Jeremiah Marquez the associated press school mates remembered Joseph Anzack As a gentle Jock thurs hours after army officials confirmed the 20yearolds body was found in friends at South High school observed a moment of silence and described him As a pumped up athlete who made them laugh and comforted them when they needed youd be sad and sitting there by and hed come up to you and just talk to and Hows your Day Are you of childhood Friend Erika Esquivel who graduated two years should be honoured for his service to America and for representing South High and Tor Ranee so proudly and so principal Scott Mcdowell told Stu dents in a second period class room an army vanished with two other soldiers May 12 when their combat team was ambushed about 20 Miles outside of the subsequently claimed by killed four other americans and an Anzack family had already endured a Rumor weeks earlier that he was then said army officials told them wednesday that a body found floating in the Euph rates River was the military confirmed thursday that Anzack had been shot in the and his body at Anzack played foot Ball and was on the wrestling and swim he was always pumped up and ready to try some thing Esquivel Josh Anzack foot Ball Laid the soldiers Jer sey on a shrine in front of the school during the the school will dedicate this years season to who was an Al league nose and retire his Anzack aspired to join the Spe Cial Waybright if i was sitting in a i want Joe Anzack right next to he because when things get Hes not going Hes going to be right there with doing everything he can to help he put others before Anzack father told his Home town the daily Damian football coach Josh Waybright places a football Jersey with the number 52 worn by former Stu Dent late Joseph Anzack on a makeshift memorial at South High school in mom of missing go says Shes hopeful Boston the Mother of a Massachusetts Soldier missing in Iraq said thursday in a new York television interview that waiting to know his Fate is Terri ble but she has Faith hell come Maria Jimenez Alex of has been missing since a May 12 am Bush about 20 Miles outside Baghdad killed four soldiers and their iraqi Jimenez and three com rades the body of one of the Joseph Anzack of Tor was found on i cant believe this happen to my this is too Terri said Maria i put it in my mind that he is but when you Are watch ing you can see every and they Are looking for i my where is my son from the associated press that family members had gathered in his Home for a Vigil led by an army chaplain after hearing of the we said a prayer for the other two then sat around and talked about Joseph an Zack military services Woycio we do what we say say what we do up from construction to maintenance from supplies to installation weve got it All located at Afghanistan Qatar Kuwait Iraq email us 1raq@wmgroup.net