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Story by Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs Office
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Some Soldiers are embarking on trips without ever leaving Forward Operating Base Kalsu.
Using their imagination and guided by the words of their favorite authors, these Soldiers are venturing deep into the worlds of fiction and non-fiction.
Pfc. Gary Greenwald, Company A, 4-3 Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd infantry Division, from Fort Stewart, Ga., prefers venturing into the realm of science fiction.
Enjoying philosophical types of sci-fi, such as "The Ender Series" by Orson Scott Card, Greenwald said he stimulates his own creative imagination just as Card did in creating his fictional future world.
Greenwald, who has been reading his entire life, said, unlike television or movies, reading allows the reader to create their own interpretations of characters and scenery as opposed to seeing someone else's vision for it.
"You get to imagine everything yourself," he said while perusing the multitude of free books at the Kalsu Morale Welfare and Recreation center.
Like Greenwald, Spc. Janice Davis, a water treatment specialist with Company A, 26th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., said she enjoys reading.
Currently she is reading "Seven Habits of Highly Efficient People" by Stephen Covey, and "Islam" by Karen Armstrong, the latter which she found in the MWR center.
"Reading stimulates my mind. I get to learn something new, learn about different cultures and better understand them," the New Haven, Conn., native said.
By gaining a better understanding of things and educating herself through reading, Greenwald feels she improves herself as a Soldier.
Likewise, she said her reading helps her be a better mother to her three children.
Tracing her love of reading to having her mother read to her as a child, she hopes to pass along the habit to her own children.
Greenwald, a native of Metairie, La., also hopes his reading has future benefits, albeit for himself. "I plan on being an English teacher and author myself."
Greenwald said reading is even beneficial in his current job as a common ground station operator, an intelligence and electronic warfare system used by military intelligence to detect, locate and track moving and stationary ground equipment.
During maintenance, performed by others, reading gives him something to do until he can get back on line.
Both Soldiers said one of their favorite times to read is right before bed, usually for an hour before turning out the lights.
| Date Taken: | 01.29.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 01.29.2008 12:17 |
| Story ID: | 15888 |
| Location: | ISKANDARIYAH, IQ |
| Web Views: | 288 |
| Downloads: | 263 |
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