http://www.dvidshub.net/ DVIDS RSS : ACCURATE, RELIABLE ACCESS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:21:53 -0500 Soldiers with the 40th Transportation Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., and Guardsmen with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, headquartered in Hernando, Miss., hurry to switch out an overheated semi-truck during a, Nov. 9, convoy mission from COB Q-West to COB Speicher. The Mississippians serve as Q-West's force protection company, and this marked their first convoy security mission. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225600 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:53:18 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225600 In a continued effort to draw down excess equipment, a Mississippi Army National Guard unit conducted a convoy mission from Contingency Operating Location Q-West to Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Nov. 9. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41830 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:52:45 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41830 First Sgt. James Ponder, the senior non-commissioned officer for the 2025th Trans. Co., of Jacksonville, Ala., speaks with Vice Adm. Alan Thompson, the director of the Defense Logistics Agency, Nov. 13, at the Contingency Operating Location Speicher dining facility. Ponder works for the DLA at the Defense Depot at Anniston, Ala. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Benoit, 1083rd Transportation Company) | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225545 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:35:02 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225545 Navy Vice Adm. Alan Thompson, the director of the Defense Logistics Agency, or DLA, had lunch here, Nov. 13, with some Alabama National Guard Soldiers from the 2025th Transportation Company out of Jacksonville, Ala. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41825 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:34:19 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41825 Col. Brian A. Montague, a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., and command judge advocate for Mississippi's 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms out of Senatobia, Miss., receives a Meritorious Service Medal from Lt. Col. Kerry Goodman, a native of Meridian, Miss., and commander of 2/198th CAB during a Nov. 13 ceremony outside the base defense operations center, Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Iraq. Montague, Mississippi's senior Army JAG, volunteered to deploy with the 155th Heavy Brigade Combat Team and serves as JAG for two battalions, the 2/198th CAB at Q-West and the 2nd Battalion, 114th Field Artillery Regiment at Contingency Operating Station Marez. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225542 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:27:46 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=225542 A Mississippi Army National Guard judge advocate officer received a Meritorious Service Medal in a ceremony outside the Base Defense Operations Center of Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Nov. 13. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41824 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:26:50 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41824 Sgt. Wesley G. Patrick, Bravo Team leader of Q-West's 17-meter Aerostat and native of Southaven, Miss., mans the winch control panel as he and his team prepared to hoist the balloon, Nov. 6. The aerostat crew members – all from A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, out of Hernando, Miss., and attached to the Base Defense Operations Center – provide a key element of base defense, maintaining the balloon and surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=224175 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:07:14 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=224175 Members of the Mississippi Army National Guard marked their fourth month of maintaining and operating the base defense 17-meter Aerostat balloon for Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Nov. 7. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41663 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:02:06 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41663 Capt. Nicole Harrell, a 15th Sustainment Brigade support operations planner and Los Angeles, native, speaks with her family at Fort Hood from the 15th Special Troops Battalion, 15th Sust. Bde., headquarters building here, Nov. 7, two days after a violent shooting on Fort Hood, 15th's home station. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=221729 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:50:09 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=images/images_gallery.php&action=viewimage&fid=221729 It was nearly 11:00 p.m., Nov. 5, as 15th Sustainment Brigade Soldiers here began hearing about a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, their home station, and began trying to contact friends and loved ones there. | http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41307 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:48:44 -0500 http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=41307