European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 7 army plans to buy up to maps 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 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 to Ward buying the which has or dered Felt a moral imperative to put All marines and sailors in the vehicles despite the Cost because the vehicles provide much More Protection against Road Side bombs than do Par Mored said corps commandant James con Way in the map program should be considered the High est priority of the department of defense acquisition pro Gram and any and All options to accelerate the production and Fielding of this capability to the theater should be Ridenti assessed and applied where Gates wrote in his May 2 memo to Geren responded in a followup memo saying that Munci had re Quested the 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 last proc maps to the allocated email Jeff Schogol at  demoted and jailed charges include Possession of porn and relationship with subordinate 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 alcohol and and escaping from military 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 special or Ramsdell was the highest ranking enlisted Soldier in the 411th Engineer an army Reserve unit headquartered in new that oper ates out of according to a news the charges rams Dell was convicted of were violating general order 1 by possessing alcohol and pornography engaging in inappropriate relationships with two Junior noncommissioned officers in his unit and maltreat ing a Soldier subject to his All of those offences allegedly took place in octo Ber officials another set of convictions were handed Down for charges of escaping from custody impeding an investigation by hiding evidence and wrongfully re moving those crimes took place about a week after the initial incidents came to officials according to the when rams Dell attempted to hide evidence of his misconduct and later ran from Cid agents while they were processing the military described a Large Quantity of alcohol and pornography in his 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 univer Sites 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 Mili tary police school and a desert storm the biography also says that Ramsdell in the vice president of a firm called command Security in email Joseph Giordono at  iraqi court sentences 4 to die 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 re leased by the military on one iraqi Man was condemned to death on june 21 for participating in multiple terrorist and kidnapping and killing iraqi he confessed to being a Mem Ber 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 was sentenced to death on june 19 for helping attack a military Convoy in he was arrested near Baghdad by soldiers be longing 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 punish ment on june they were Cap tured on by iraqi Security forces for participating in terrorist none of the four who were convicted is older than three other iraqis were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes which violated the iraqi terrorist All others were convicted for illegal weapons Possession or false ident Ifica with sentences being is sued for one to 30 years in Pris since april Cocci has held trials for suspected leading to con email Les Neuhaus at a Only atthe Auto Exchange w a v 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