European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse June 2007 Page 6 Usa eur 2nd but unit will return to Iraq Early gis would be sent without full time off Between Tours Dod says no request made for return by John Vandiver stars and stripes Germany after Sev eral weeks of army Europe said Friday that a company of 1st armoured 2nd brigade soldiers would de ploy As scheduled in just nine months after returning from their last Iraq Pentagon officials said the decision had not been Given final if it company 1st 6th infantry regiment will do so without the full 12month dwell time called for under army the adjusted in april by defense Secretary Robert requires soldiers to deploy for 15 months instead of that three month Extension is to be offset by a so called dwell time of no less than a Usa eur officials said Friday that company a soldiers Are expected to de ploy As scheduled As part of the 2nd Bri Gade combat based in the company is part of a brigade com Bat team put on order to so the company is going to Bruce a Usa eur spokesman said but both Gates and the chairman of the joint chiefs of Marine Peter told reporters Friday that no one has asked permission to deploy the and that this permission is specifically required before the soldiers can break dwell i have not been asked to approve a unit to go Over with less than a year of dwell Gates said when asked Why he Al Lowed an exception to be made to his 12month policy for the told by a stars and stripes reporter that Usa eur has formally announced its de who was attending the news conference with his the sys tem is very precise about any unit that might go Over with less than 12 months of dwell time will specifically be brought to the Pace they will explain to him and will explain to him Why there is nobody else possible to fill that we have not yet done Pace for the soldiers of company the fact that their situation was under review brought Little Hope that a potential delay in their deployment was in the its been assumed for a said Jason who was among the company a soldiers who returned from a 13month deployment in we got the Short end of the its a Dis while the rest of the 2nd but returned from Iraq in this company fell out of sync with the rest of the brigade in the fall of 2005 when it was kept behind to serve As an augmenting Force for the 1st 1st armoured based in Seth and stripes first Christina and other soldiers Zero rifles thursday during theater specific individual readiness training at Germany joint multinational readiness the training sessions Are for individuals replacing soldiers combat training focuses on the individual by Seth Robson stars and stripes Germany More soldiers than Ever Are train ing to go downrange As i Dividu according to instructors Over seeing theater specific individual readiness training master Donald non commissioned officer in charge of the which normally Hap pens twice a said More than 250 soldiers and 15 civilians Are at Hohenfels this week preparing to join units downrange in Iraq or this is the largest class weve had so the 41yearold hous ton native said As he watched sol Diers on thursday train to Zero m4 and m9 weapons on a shooting Range at Hohenfels joint multinational readiness most times the training involves fewer than 150 he the latest class is bigger because the training was not held earlier this month while thousands of 2nd cavalry Stryker regiment troops trained at Jarc for their own deployment to the readiness training started at Hohenfels this it was done at Grafe Wohr in 2005 and the training is for individuals replacing soldiers in Down Range units As Well As department of defense civilians and contractors headed to Iraq and Afghani Wells the latest class includes sol Diers ranked from private to Colo along with he the program includes weapons zeroing and qualification Media awareness cultural aware Ness first Aid Roadside bomb training biological and chemical warfare training and close quarters along with briefings on the Laws of War and medical he because the class is so Large Jarc observer controllers Are helping run some of the such As teaching soldiers How to react to Roadside he one of the soldiers doing the readiness Kevin left Friday to join the 173rd airborne brigade support battalion in the 22yearold native said thursday that it would be his first trip Down he said the Best part of the training course was reflexive fire training that involved reacting to Pemberton said he had not heard much about 173rds work in Afghanistan other than the unit is fighting at High Altitude and temperatures can be another Soldier doing the train ing was Timothy the 39yearold is a reservist who lives in in the Ger Man state of with his Ger Man and volunteered to serve a year in Kuwait working at a the Kuwait Mission is a Chance for Wolfe to land a govern ment Job after years working on the German he while in Down there in going to be putting in resumes for something in the finance said who got out of the regu Lar army in the readiness training is bring ing him up to Date with the Way the army operates in the Middle East these i was in the first Gulf but this is something Back we didst have All these improvised explosive devices and other stuff that the iraqis Are throwing at he email Seth Robson at defense officials were prompted to look into Why the unit was not getting its full dwell time after a Reader from Baumholzer informed stripes that the unit would be getting less than a full year at Usa eur officials then asked the 2nd but to not deploy company a a unit of roughly 150 soldiers with the rest of the brigade until the unit gets its full 12 months per army Pentagon spokes Man Bryan Whitman said on May army officials said the matter was in the analysing stage and was under re View by the whole Chain of from the 1st armoured division to us a eur to european on the army explained its Posi Tion this Way the dwell time Issue is a for the Anderson but if the brigade combat teams de company a must go with stars and stripes reporter Lisa Burgess contributed to this email John Vandiver at chief visits Karzai during trip to Kabul by Fisnik Abrashid the associated press Afghanistan United nations Secretary general ban Kimono made a Surprise visit Fri Day to where he met with president Hamid Karzai and the commander of nato raided three compounds in Eastern of killing four suspected officials a Villag said those killed were bans first visit to the country was aimed at ensuring solid coordination Between the and afghan government in their joint efforts said Adrian the spokesman in Afghani along with ban met the head of natos International Security assistance Dan and other Edwards and afghan troops clashes and air strikes in the South left 17 More militants in addition to the action in the officials the raid in the Eastern hangar har province targeted compounds suspected of harbouring Taliban and foreign the coalition p Taliban forces inside two or the compounds attempted to engage coalition forces As they a the statement the forces fired on the killing the assailants and quickly securing the but Malek an elder or the Village where the raid ook said the troops used explosives to bust through the House Gates in an operation that Iii to four a local two or his sons and his Zaman denied that the tour were
