Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Bryant Maude | Staff Brig. Gen. Sabah (Center), the Taji Base commander, tours the Cantigny Dinning...... read more read more
By Staff Sgt. Bryant Maude
1st Sustainment Brigade
CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Col. Kevin O'Connell, a Clinton, Md., native, and the commander of the 1st Sustainment Brigade, took another step forward in building a partnership between him and Staff Brig. Gen. Sabah, the Taji Base commander, and his staff. He hosted a dinner at the Cantigny Dinning Facility on Camp Taji for Sabah and his staff in an effort to encourage dialog between the two units' staff, April 1.
"Take time to get to know one another," said O'Connell. "Each of you are seated across from your counterpart. Find out who they are, and let's try and follow up with visits later on."
The guests sat down in the Shadley room and chose items from a menu of chicken, steak, rice, vegetables, salad and desert, and broke bread with their counterparts to encourage dialog and a friendship. For some, this was not their first time meeting.
"We've met before," stated Maj. Jon Campi, a native of Leander, Texas, and the medical officer for the 1st SB. I had an opportunity to tour their facility a few weeks ago so I was pleased to see him again."
After dinner O'Connell took his guests on a tour of the Cantigny facility and Iraqi Gen. Sabah was impressed.
"Surely the White House in America could not be this nice," said Sabah. "I hope that someday my soldiers could have such a nice facility."
The next step in the relationship is to get each of the younger officers to go over to the Iraqi side of Taji and learn more about their counterpart and assess how they may be able to assist them.
| Date Taken: | 04.01.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 04.04.2008 09:33 |
| Story ID: | 18061 |
| Location: | TAJI, IQ |
| Web Views: | 153 |
| Downloads: | 132 |
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