August 10, 2009

COB ADDER – When looking inside Headquarters and Headquarters Com-pany, Special Troops Batt alion, 4th Bri-gade Combat Team, 1st Armored Di-vision Medical Aid Station, one might think the physician assistant and med-ics working there are just like all the others in Iraq. There are cabinets with various medicines and medical sup-plies, desks and fi ling cabinets stocked full of paperwork and a neat and tidy

treatment area. But there’s more than meets the eye.

The medics who work in this aid station do far more than one would ex-pect. The medical staff has more than 50 years of combined medical experi-ence and uses it to assist Contingency Operating Base Adder and the STB daily.

Capt. Isaritza Rosello, of San Anto-nio, offi cer-in-charge, also works at the 10th Combat Support Hospital Outpa-tient Clinic and the emergency room.

Such demands on Rosello and her staff aren’t enough to bring them down, it’s all a part of the job description.

“We have an offi ce full of eager bea-vers,” said Rosello. “Everyone wants to help stick a vein.”

Sgt. 1st Class Michael Dees, of Yuma, Ariz., helps round out the leadership of the medical staff with 19 years of active-duty service as a medic. In his years, he has developed some unique ways of motivating Soldiers to complete neces-sary procedures like immunizations.

“Some people have to be coerced into gett ing shots, so we just tell them ‘Hey, I got something for you at the aid station!’ and when they come in … well you know,” said Dees.

The medics treat more than 50 Sol-diers a week in addition to their nor-mal duties at the 10th CSH as well as providing medical support for the 4th STB Combat Patrols.

“We have supported the (military police) and (personal security detach-ments) on top of our daily responsibili-ties,” said Dees.

In addition, the medics have con-ducted combat life-saver classes for Soldiers and have also begun training with the 10th Iraqi Army Division med-ics at the Camp Dhi Qar aid station.

“The medics are very valuable to us. The Batt alion could not accomplish its mission without them,” said Rosello.

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“The medics are very valuable to us. The Battalion could not accom-plish its mission without them.”

– Capt. Isaritza Rosello

offi cer-in-charge, medical aid station, HHC

Photo by 2nd Lt. Samuel Timmons

Staff Sgt. Miriam Mountain of Lawton, Okla. receives an Anthrax vaccination from Spc. Sarah Oliver of Houston.

By 2nd Lt. Samuel Timmons4th BCT, 1st Armd. Div.

STB combat medics provide mission support

For more of 2nd Lt. Timmons’ stories, visit:www.TheRedBulls.org/Timmons

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COB BASRA – Los Texmaniacs per-formed for Soldiers at Contingency Operating Base Basra Aug. 5.

The band, which specializes in con-junto-style music, a mixture of blues and rock with Spanish and English infl uences, also played country, soul, funk, polka and rock ‘n’ roll during their hour-long set.

The band’s two-week tour of Iraq be-gan with a concert at COB Basra, but this was not the fi rst Middle East tour for Los Texmaniacs.

“This is my fourth time in the Middle East, second time in Iraq,” said drum-mer Lorenzo Martinez, who has been with the band for six years,

“They fl y me out when they need me,” said Martinez.

“It was an honor and a pleasure to be here,” said bajo sexton guitar player Max Baca, adding to get here Los Tex-maniacs had to endure “a long C-130 ride from Kuwait.”

“It was about 130 degrees in there and we sweated, but we made it out fi ne,” said Baca, the leader of Los Tex-maniacs.

“We’re used to the heat in Texas, but it is hot over here,” added David Farias, who plays the accordion, “but it’s nice to be back.”

By Pfc. J. Princeville LawrenceMND-S

Los Texmaniacs go crazy for COB Basraexmania

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Gabriel Zavala, bassist for the band Los Texmaniacs, plays for Soldiers at Contingency Operating Base Basra during a concert Aug. 5.

Photo by Pfc. J. Princeville Lawrence

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Photos by Staff Sgt. Rodney Foliente

IA, Warhorse Soldiers interact with local youth(Left) Staff Sgt. James Terry, civil liaison team leader, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, takes a quick ride on an Iraqi’s trike as they chat and joke during a joint market assessment patrol with the 14th Iraqi Army Div. in Basra recently. (Below) Local children jockey for position to catch a soccer ball tossed by a Soldier from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, during a joint market assessment patrol with the 14th Iraqi Army Div. in Basra recently. (Bottom) A Soldier from 14th Iraqi Army Division gives a soccer ball to a young Iraqi boy while preventing bigger kids from taking it away during a joint assessment patrol in the al Jameat District of Basra recently.

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“I jumped at the opportunity to come to this part of the world,” said bassist

Gabriel Zavala and newest member of the band, “because I wanted to do my best to entertain the troops out here who maybe haven’t had entertainment in a while.”

The concert gained more and more momentum throughout the night as Soldiers danced in the audience.

“As soon as people started hear-ing music coming out of the speakers, people started coming out and check-ing out the show and by the end of the show, the energy was absolutely amaz-ing,” said Zavala.

“They were freaking awesome! They played all the right songs,” said Spc. Amelia Reyes, a Mission, Texas native and administrative specialist with 3rd Batt alion, 154th Att ack Reconnaissance Batt alion.

“This is what I was put on this plan-et to do, you know, play music,” said Zavela.

“If I can share my talent with the troops that are out here, putt ing their lives in danger, well, this is the least I can do, to come out here and show my thanks to the troops.”

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Spc. Samantha Bradley, an Oakdale, Minn. native and 34th Red Bull Infantry Division administrative specialist, enjoys a concert by Los Texmaniacs, who visited Contingency Operating Base Basra Aug. 5.

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Around the world in 34 secondsWASHINGTON - An incoming adviser to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan predicted Aug. 6 the United States will see about two more years of heavy fi ghting and then either hand off to a much improved Afghan fi ghting force or “lose and go home.” David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency expert who will assume a role as a senior adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been highly critical of the war’s management to date. He outlined a “best-case scenario”

for a decade of further U.S. and NATO involvement in Afghanistan during an appearance at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Under that timeline, the allied forces would turn the corner in those two years, followed by about three years of transition to a newly capable Afghan force. “I think we need to persist,” Kilcullen said, but with “some prett y signifi cant limits on how much we’re prepared to spend, how many troops we’re prepared to send, how long we can do this for.”

WASHINGTON - Sonia Sotomayor won confi rmation Aug. 6 as the nation’s fi rst Hispanic Supreme Court jus-tice. The Senate vote was 68-31 to confi rm Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s fi rst Supreme Court nominee. The 55-year-old daughter of Puerto Rican parents was raised in a South Bronx housing project and educated in the Ivy League before rising to the highest legal echelons, spending the past 17 years as a federal judge. A major-

ity of Republicans lined up against her, arguing she’d bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench. But Demo-crats praised Sotomayor as an extraordinarily qualifi ed mainstream moderate and touted her elevation to the court as a milestone in the nation’s journey toward greater equality and a reaffi rmation of the American dream.

MINDEN, Nev. - The woman who accused Pitt sburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino where she worked told authorities she has received dozens of threatening and harassing phone calls. In a police report fi led with the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Department, the 31-year-old woman said she received “well over 100” messages since she fi led a civil suit against the football star July 17 in Washoe District Court in Reno. The woman said people left phone messages calling her a “whore” and threatening “something’s

going to happen” if she did not drop the lawsuit, according to the police report fi led July 30. The woman who worked as an executive VIP casino host at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe claims in her civil suit the two-time Super Bowl winner lured her to his hotel room under false pretenses and raped her during a celebrity golf tournament last summer. She’s seeking a minimum of $490,000 plus punitive damages.

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean hypnotist has been fi ned for stealing a kiss on a blind date with a woman he thought he had put in a trance, according to news reports Aug. 6. The 32-year-old man suggested hypnotizing his 27-year-old date during a meeting arranged by a matchmaking agency in August last year, the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap news agency reported. When the man thought his technique worked, he went to kiss her.

But the woman was fully alert, though her eyes were closed, and she pushed him away. Later, she fi led accusations that he had sexually harassed her, the reports said. The Seoul Central District Court reportedly fi ned Park 3 million won ($2,453).