European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 stars and stripes Mideast edition july 2007 army plans to buy up to maps Many vehicles will be sent downrange in the next year by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes get ready for 2008 the year of the the army plans to buy up to mine resistant ambush protected Lehi known As which have proved to take blasts from Roadside bombs much better than Upa Mored while the army estimates that it wont be until july 2009 that All of the maps could be the army wants to Send As Many As possible downrange next said army Carl its important that the army supports the War fighter As quickly and As efficiently Asey Usa today first reported on monday that the joint requirements oversight Council approved up to maps for the until the army had been approved for of the by confirmed that proc approved the map purchases for the but he added that does not mean the army will get All the maps will Likely be a on Forone photo Courtesy of International military and government Lac the army will buy up to mine resistant ambush protected also known As and Hopes to Send As Many As possible downrange next the vehicle has proved to be Able to withstand Roadside bombs better than Upa Mored the Marine corps already has ordered Swap with Upa Mored humvee in the with most expected to go to multinational by the vehicles will go into theater and the commander on the ground will decide where they he the army expects that All maps could be produced by july on defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that companies that have been awarded map contracts Are ramping up production and Are expected to be Able to produce Many hundreds a month within the next few Gates also stressed the need to get maps to troops for every month we scores of Young americans Are going to he said Gates has made getting maps to troops in Iraq a top when the army initially requested Only of the Gates sent acting army Secretary Pete Geren a memo not ing the disparity Between the army and Marine corps approaches toward buying the which has ordered Felt a moral imperative to put All marines and sailors in the vehicles de spite the Cost because the vehicles provide much More Protection against Roadside bombs than do Upa Mored said corps commandant James Conway in the map program should be consid ered the highest priority of the depart ment of defense acquisition program and any and All options to accelerate the production and Fielding of this capability to the theater should be assessed and applied where Gates wrote in his May 2 memo to Geren responded in a followup memo saying that Munci had requested the last proc allocated maps to the email Jeff Schogol at  demoted to jailed charges included possessing alcohol and having relationships with subordinates by Joseph Giordono stars and stripes an army command sergeant major in Iraq has been convicted of a Range of offences including relationships with destroying possessing Al Cohol and and escaping from Mili tary officials said the Litany of charges against command Edward Ramsdell resulted in a sentence of four months in prison and a six rank demotion to or Ramsdell was the highest rank ing enlisted Soldier in the 411th Engineer an army re serve unit headquartered in new that operates out according to a news the charges Ramsdell was convicted of were violating general order 1 by possessing alcohol and pornography engaging in in appropriate relationships with two Junior noncommissioned officers in his unit and maltreat ing a Soldier subject to his or All of those offences allegedly took place in october officials another set of convictions were handed Down for charges of escaping from custody impeding an investigation by hiding Evi Dence and wrongfully removing those crimes took place about a week after the Ini tial incidents came to officials according to the when Ramsdell at tempted to hide evidence of his misconduct and later ran from Cid agents while they were processing the military de scribed a Large Quantity of Alco hol and pornography in his Quad the court martial took place at the la Anaconda base in Iraq before a military according to the Central Connecticut state University web Ramsdell was awarded the University leadership and distinguished academic record award in the biography with that award says Ramsdell graduated from the army sergeants major Academy in july 2004 and earned an advanced degree in finance from Ocsus business he was listed As a senior instructor in a military police school and a desert storm the biography also says that Ramsdell in the vice president of a firm called com Mand Security in Lagran email Joseph Giordono at  4 sentenced to death by iraqi court by Les Neuhaus stars and stripes the Central criminal court of Iraq a forum in which troops testify against alleged insurgents they arrest convicted another 46 with four of them sentenced to according to a statement released by the military on one iraqi Man was condemned to death on june 21 for participating in multiple terrorist and kidnapping and kill ing iraqi he confessed to being a member of the jays Al Mujahedin terrorist an outfit that is said to have also targeted iraqi and coalition forces in the along with an iraqi elementary another of the a saudi arabian nation was sentenced to death on june 19 for helping attack a military Convoy in he was arrested near Baghdad by soldiers belonging to the 1st 8th infantry regiment on and confessed to receiving training by two others sentenced to death were of iraqi and yemeni handed their punishment on june they were captured on by iraqi Security forces for participating in terrorist opera none of the four who were convicted is older than three other iraqis were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for unspecified crimes which violated the iraqi terrorist All others were convicted for illegal weapons Possession or false with sentences being issued for one to 30 years in since april Cocci has held trials for suspected leading to Roadside bomb kills 7 afghan policemen by Noor Khan the associated press Afghanistan a Roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle patrolling in a dangerous area of Southern Afghanistan on killing All seven police men on an official the Ford Ranger police truck was travelling through the Shari District of Kandahar province when the bomb said provincial police chief Fayed Agha Shari was the site of one of natos largest Ever Battles and remains a dangerous Mili tary officials said they killed be tween 500 and Taliban insurgents in Shari last elsewhere in nato troops opened fire on a motorcycle that soldiers thought was a pos sible suicide natos International Security assistance Force it said the Driver of the motorcycle was injured but that there were no other casual i Atullah a Doc Tor at Kandahar main said the nato forces killed one Man and wounded i was Riding a bicycle when the nato Convoy was and when they got close they started firing and i was said Mohammad who was recovering from a Bullet wound at the there was no expo no i dont know Why they started civilian casualties caused by nato forces have been an ongo ing Issue for the International Mili tary Mission and there have been several cases of military con Voys firing on motorists that sol Diers Felt represented a Over the afghan officials said 45 civilians were killed during a nato and coalition bombing in neighbouring Hel Mand president Hamid who has repeatedly asked International forces to take better care of afghan sent a six Man team to a tally shows that of civil Ian deaths this 314 were caused by International or afghan Security and 279 by insure a similar associated press though shows the same trend 213 killed by the or nato and 180 by the Taliban excluding the most recent Vio