European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages stars and stripes june 2007 Anbar province opens first police Academy stars and stripes the first iraqi police Academy in Anbar province has with officials hoping it will serve up to new recruits each Anbar had Long lagged behind Iraq other provinces in regard to recruiting local police in recent the num Bers have in for before sheiks began recruiting members of their own tribes to join the there were about 140 police in the City of roughly by Early this there were More than Iraq police which have grown from five Basic academies to 13 in the past 18 have graduated roughly police officers and dispersed them throughout Iraq 18 roughly Border police officers Are working the nations porous entry the Academy in Habb Aniyah is the 14th training site in the while the program has made it still faces army Kenneth commander of the civilian police assistance training team which oversees the training and development of the iraqi police said in a recent interview with stars and the police dropout rate remains higher than and the Public is leery of sectarian militias and insurgent insurgents continue to target and kill hundreds of iraqi first responders and sol some iraqi police hold on to age old tribal customs that keep them from doing their several said in various for because of ancestral tribal some fear killing or hurting someone from another tribe even if done in the course of their police duties because a member of an opposite tribe has reciprocal rights to do the Hunzeker we Are making tremendous and measurable among those at the wednesday opening of Courtesy of the army the Anbar iraqi police Academy officially opened during a ceremony in Habb Aniyah on cutting the ribbon from provincial governor Mamoun Sami Rashid Interior minister Jawad a Bulani and David multinational the Habb Aniyah Academy were David the top commander in Iraq Interior minister Jawad a Bulani Anbar Gover nor Mamoun Sami Rashid Lawani commander of multinational and the first class of 550 recruits is to graduate officials six soldiers remembered As heroes by Drew Brown stars and stripes s Forward operating base Iraq Alexandre Alexeev had an uncanny Way of being Able to communicate with the iraqi peo wherever he iraqis would flock to drawn to the 23yearold russian immigrants booming voice and obvious Emma said Mike commander of Apache 6th 9th cavalry Alexeev and five other soldiers were killed on memorial Day by two Roadside bombs As they tried to recover the remains of two oh58 Kiowa helicopter pilots shot Down by insurgents near my in Iraq volatile Dyala the two 1st Keith Heidtman and chief warrant officer Theodore Tuc died in the Zachary killed in the bomb was one of the most enthusiastic troopers in Punaro the 25yearold native of would not complain about any task or he would just make sure that it got his enthusiasm rubbed off on those around and it made our troop a better James Summers Iii was a hard worker that his Peers and leaders could always count on to accomplish a task or mis Punaro the 21yearold trooper from Bour loved the and often spent time talking about How Happy his wife made Anthony Ewing was a Guy you could always count on to pick you Punaro the 22yearold native of the Philip Drew and stripes two soldiers Kneel in prayer As they remember six friends from Apache 69 armoured reconnaissance Squadron who were killed on memorial they were killed trying to recover the remains of two pilots who were shot Down by insurgents in Pines was an outstanding motivator that could make you feel bet Ter with nothing but his signature smile and a Jonathan Markham had an internal drive to be the and his competitive spirit was in Punaro on the night he the 22yearold from Dallas was an unrelenting Force leading his establishing Security and conduct ing recovery operations before a hidden bomb took his first it Kile West was an incredible officer and Leader of Punaro the 23yearold from could be counted on to accomplish any and he loved leading american which was exactly what he was doing the night he their deaths Mark the worst Day so far during this deployment for the 6th 9th cavalry three other soldiers have been killed in action since the regiment deployed to Iraq last words Are not adequate to de scribe the Depths of our sorrow and the pain we feel at their said it Keith 6th Squadron Punaro said that even As they All six troopers would not have wanted to be anywhere our troopers displayed All that is right and proper about what we soldiers do by moving immediately to the sound of the guns and moving immediately to a place where americans were in Trou he the soldiers were part of a Quick reaction Force when they received word 7 that a helicopter had gone they were in their on their in the dining facility when the Call Punaro they immediately jumped up and readied them there were two Ameri cans in but As the soldiers arrived near the crash one of their Brad Leys was struck by a bomb buried deep in the ground and wired to a pressure five soldiers Summers and West were killed and an other Soldier was engineers were called in to look for additional but the second bomb was buried so deeply that it Lay it exploded As Apache troopers were leaving the killing the soldiers never reached the downed another Quick reaction Force was airlifted in to recover the remains of the two four of the men served under Leonard a Sec Tion chief from san restricted to base at the Trevi no described How he tried to go on the Mission but Ewing stopped his friends he saved his i figured that they called for All of the dismounts we could pro so i had to Trevino now talking to his you threw me out of the Bradley and basically told stay ill be Back and i watched the ramp go up while you gave your trademark in still he waiting for you to come Back so i can say thank you for saving my email Drew Brown at rarely used naval fire hit Navy says by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes the Navy went old school on somali Mili Tants using naval gunfire against bad Guys for the first time in the Region since the persian Gulf it was first reported Over the weekend that a destroyer had shelled islamic militants in Soma where ethiopian and islamic government forces Are fighting insurgents from the islamic courts which the government has accused of sheltering Al Aida a senior defense official con firmed tuesday that the uss Cha based out of Pearl a fired More than a dozen rounds from its 5inch gun during the the official had no data on the effectiveness of the the last time the Navy shelled Shore targets in the Central command theater of operations was during the Gulf War when the battleships uss Missouri and Wisconsin used their 16inch guns to blast iraqi Bun it is rare nowadays for War ships to use their guns against Shore explained Jack of the naval historical Cen Ter in after the korean the Navy put More emphasis on missiles and guns to counter the perceived threat of soviet bombers armed with nuclear Green but the Navy found it still needed its big guns during and it employed world War ii Era ships such As the battleship uss new Green the ships provided artillery support for troops battleships were brought Back into service in the 1980s to provide marines the firepower they need hence the use of battleships during the Gulf Green the battleships proved too costly to Man and maintain after the Gulf War and were decommissioned in the the Navy plans to re place the 5inch guns on current warships with More precise 155 my said Landon Hutch a spokesman with naval sea systems the old War wagons May be but sailors aboard guided missile cruisers and destroyers still train to use their 5inch guns against Shore said Paul a spokesman for surface forces shipboard naval surface fire support Nofs teams attend one week of schoolhouse training in a simulator which is Fol Lowed by regular shipboard train ing sessions that use an embedded 5inch gun Taylor said in a tuesday email to stars and the training takes place at naval amphibious Little and naval amphibious base and aboard ships required to qualify for the surface fire support Tay Lor email Jeff Schogol at
