Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Mark Albright | Spc. Thomas Harrison, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored...... read more read more
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DIWANIYAH, Iraq – The soldiers at Contingency Operating Site Echo have many missions that require them to train their Iraqi counterparts and protect the base to the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. These soldiers require support complete these missions.
The 3rd Squadron Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, also known as Havoc Troop, has the broad responsibility of providing services and protection for COS Echo. The unit works with the civilian dining facility workers, civilian guards and is in charge of the security for the base.
“We are the beans and bullets for the squadron,” said Capt. Larry Steward, commander of Havoc Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd ACR. “We are the ones who keep the squadron sustained with logistics, administration and force protection.”
The troop also operates the Base Defense Operations Center, which controls and maintains the security on the base Havoc Troop works with the civilian dining facility workers to provide soldiers with food and drinks. Additionally, they work with the security companies on the base to ensure that everyone is safe from threats while deployed. The soldiers in Havoc Troop have been a major part of the squadron’s deployment successes.
“We make sure the right people get on the base and that the wrong people don’t and the convoys come through seamlessly,” said Staff Sgt. Andrew Schimek, BDOC senior enlisted soldier and native of Buffalo, N.Y.
The base is a mix of military and civilians.
“This base is unique because it is like a small village and everybody intertwines. We interact with the civilian companies here like they are part of the family. We talk to each other and work together as a team,” said 1st. Sgt. Robert Perrow, Havoc Troop’s senior enlisted advisor.
Havoc Troop conducts their missions and continues to support the administration needs of the soldiers assigned to the squadron headquarters. This task involves a lot of oversight and organization by the troop’s training room soldiers, since it is the largest troop in the squadron.
“We keep track of all of our soldiers training records, promotions, weapons cards and anything that the troop needs us to complete,” said Spc. John Mason, training room clerk for Havoc and a native of Edinburgh, Ind. “We also conduct all of the training for the troop.”
The training room not only takes care of its own soldiers but assists the other troops in the squadron when needed.
“The biggest job was completing over 300 leave packets for the troop and other units, said Staff Sgt. Levi Panting, Havoc training room senior enlisted soldier. “We completed that and successfully got everyone one on leave.”
The soldiers of Havoc Troop work together as a team and contribute to the fight in invaluable ways. These soldiers have assisted every soldier on COS Echo in some way or another and have been successful in their mission.
“I think they have excelled. Our soldiers are the reason for our success,” said Steward.
| Date Taken: | 06.15.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 06.22.2011 02:50 |
| Story ID: | 72514 |
| Location: | DIWANIYAH, IQ |
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