Story by Staff Sgt. Johnathan Hoover | 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs | 12.19.2013
By U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Johnathan Hoover 2nd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. PAO PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Dec. 19, 2013) –Members of Team Mamba were crowned champions of a basketball tournament held at the Clamshell Gym on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2013. During a grueling doubleheader, they defeated team Red Dragons 36-33 in overtime and team Get Money 43-36 at the end of regulation......
Courtesy Story | 1st Cavalry Division | 12.12.2013
More than 410 Spartan soldiers gathered on Black Jack Field to road march to the 1st Cavalry Division Museum to donate toys to Santa’s Workshop, which provides toys for children of Fort Hood families in need....
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 12.01.2011
Vehicles streamed by, neon blurs of yellow and red. Cars, vans, and 18-wheelers alike honked their hellos to the group of paratroopers walking along the dark edge of the highway. Their footfalls came quickly in an attempt to warm their feet, numbed from the cold, until they fell in cadence with the morning Call to Prayer blaring over loudspeakers....
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 10.26.2011
“What time is it?” yelled a Paratrooper donning a crisp, white paper cap. “Five minutes till,” answered another. It was 4:55 pm, almost time for dinner to be served, and a line had already formed outside the chow hall doors, continued down the long hallway and disappeared to the outside. Hungry paratroopers gazed expectantly through the window to see what was cooking....
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 07.06.2011
A team of policemen arrived at the scene, securing the area while others broke off to inspect the damage. The vehicle containing the car bomb still smoked from the recent explosion, and a man laid under the shade of a palm tree, bleeding and yelling for help in Arabic. Iraqi policemen from the Hit district conducted a crime scene exploitation training exercise at Al Asad Air Base, on July 6,......
Story by Sgt. Kissta DiGregorio | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 05.10.2011
Rapid, shallow breathing, weak pulse, unresponsiveness, bluish skin tone, loss of consciousness; these are all signs and symptoms of shock, which can ultimately lead to organ damage and even death if gone untreated. These were the signs shown by one soldier recently on his way to work, which his fellow Paratroopers recognized and quickly treated, saving the soldier’s life....
Story by Staff Sgt. John Laughter | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division | 08.09.2010
Walking down the single sun-baked street, with the sounds of chickens and goats in a nearby pen and the voices of local Iraqis in muted conversation, mud-daubed buildings with sheet metal roofs crowd the each side of the small path, a visitor would find it difficult to tell the difference between this village and any other in Iraq, if it wasn’t for the massive pine forest surrounding the......
