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today

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on Freedom's Journal Rock , we'll look

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at how a regiment targets a new

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artillery role and take you on a toy

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drive .

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Welcome

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to this edition of Freedom Journal Rock .

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I'm army Sergeant luis gutierrez and

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here's a look at events shaping the

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region . Last week , a young girl

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phoned in a tip about a possible

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roadside bomb . When coalition forces

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investigated , they found a man hiding

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in the grass and four masked men in a

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car . They also witnessed a man with an

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Ak 47 a cell phone walk over to two

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suspected triggerman . Coalition forces

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prevented them from carrying out the

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attack and disabled the bomb . About

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500 security detainees were released

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from Abu Ghraib prison last week .

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Those released were not guilty of

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serious or violent crimes and all have

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admitted their offenses , renounced

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violence and pledged to return as good

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citizens . An Iraqi Army and U . S .

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Marine patrol operating on the

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outskirts of our wanna discovered a

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weapons stash On saturday . The stash

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was first noticed by the marines

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translator in all 11 Stashes were found

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Iraqi soldiers and U . S . Marines

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collected £4000 of explosives which

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were detonated by the explosives

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ordinance disposal team . The role of

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the field artillery soldier has been

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changing this deployment finds top guns

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taking on the role of mountain and

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dismounted infantry among several other

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positions . Sergeant Joy Cramer tells

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us more , I thought

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throughout the Iraqi farmland

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surrounding the city of baiji Iraq

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members of First Battalion 3/20 field

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artillery regiment have stepped out

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onto the dirt path helping to perfect

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the role of the infantrymen . Basically

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today , we have a copy that was coming

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into our sector , so they wanted to

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master the amount of force in the

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battlefield . So we were pushed out in

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the sector in order to ensure that

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there was no rockets and mortar attacks

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on the dog's

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soldiers from First Battalion or top

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guns have changed roles for this war ,

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conducting patrols , searching houses

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and disrupting anti Iraqi forces

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throughout their area . The role of

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field artillery , you know ,

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traditionally up until this more behind ,

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you know , that kind of stuff . Since

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then , since Iraq to become maneuver ,

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become basically dismounted infantry

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and motorized today with one house ,

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there was two shotguns . Thank you

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don't find a lot of shotguns , I found

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a lot of a case , but 70 shotguns and

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had too . So we had to take one

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professional authorized one thing many

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different military occupational

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specialties or MOS make up top guns ,

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headquarters battery , I think there's

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six different mOS is that make up ,

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which is kind of our kind of

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nontraditional for uh

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six different mOS has come together as

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one team and everybody first got here ,

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we found out we were going to be uh

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light infantry , we didn't know what to

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expect and then we got our

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burden is very knowledgeable . In fact ,

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it's so him being here plus the

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training back at fort Campbell was

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really good for everybody . So I think

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everybody's pretty happy with what

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we're doing so far with good reason .

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This field artillery regiment has

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detained over 100 anti Iraqi force

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insurgents since the beginning of

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november period were replaced tactical

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and technical proficiency as long as

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you come together as a team and doesn't

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in every time .

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Thank you for letting us see your house .

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Looking around , reporting from second

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Brigade combat team won First Airborne

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Division in Southern Baghdad Iraq . I'm

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Army Sergeant Joy Cramer .

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After the break we'll take you

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on a tour drive in the International

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Zone . Stay

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with

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well

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to all the american servicemen and

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women arrived . Thank you were proud of

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God . See we look forward to having you

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home , but we're grateful to the

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mission that you're

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accomplishing .

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Mhm .

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Residents in the Abu Ghraib area of

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Baghdad recently received medical

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assistance from soldiers of the 448

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Civil Affairs Battalion and the 2 22

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infantry Regiment . During a joint

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medical civil affairs program . They

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used a school as a makeshift clinic and

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provided medical care and necessities

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such as blankets , shoes , and school

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supplies . Slovakian Minister of

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Defense Dhiraj Liska visited

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multinational Division Central South

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last week after attending several

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meetings , he visited Slovakian troops

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in Camp Echo ad Diwaniyah . The

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Slovakian mission in Mnd Central South

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is focused on explosives ordinance

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disposal and engineering operations .

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There are more than 100 Slovakians in

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Multinational Division , Central South .

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The International Zone Police See a lot

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went out on patrol during their beat .

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They noticed the need within an Iraqi

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community specialist laurel tucker

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shows us the efforts they made to help

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out the role of the expeditionary

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security force . Squadron Detachment

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two is to provide law and order in the

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international zone . They do this by

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patrolling the IZ . During one of these

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patrols through an Iraqi community .

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The airmen noticed a need inspired by

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the holidays , they decided to start a

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humanitarian project . A group of us

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felt the need to share some stuff with

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the kids , toys , clothing , hygiene

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items , winter clothes , especially

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thinking that we don't have our kids of

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our own here . We wanted to share

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something with kids here that may not

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be as forces are back in America , the

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airman called family members at home

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telling them about the project . In

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only three months , more than 100 boxes

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of donated clothing , toys , school

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supplies and hygiene items down there .

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Way to relax . Oh , there's a response

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was incredible . We half the time we

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couldn't even walk around in the water

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and uh , the whole building was full of

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clothes and toys . So it was incredible .

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After a short game of soccer with some

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of the local Children Security Force

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members gave away the donated items ,

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smiles could be seen on every face as

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they anxiously stood in line for senior

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Airman jennifer johnson , the project

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was positive in more ways than one . It

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got a lot of us together . It kind of

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kept our minds off being away from home ,

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away from family . I it was , I'm glad

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I did it . I really felt nice that I

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did it . I think maybe even when I go

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home and this was the squadron's first

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toy Drive . Its success led Staff

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Sergeant Ron McCoy to reflect on why

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they wanted to help the community .

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We've helped some people out that

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needed it and I think they're hopefully

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thankful that we did that and

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appreciate what we do because we do it

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on the kindness of our hearts . And

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that was the whole goal was to be

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sharing behind people that host us here .

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The items left over from the Toy Drive

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will be donated to an orphanage in the

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Red Zone 23 72nd ? S plans to hold

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another humanitarian project in the

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future . Specialist laurel tucker

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Baghdad Iraq , thanks for watching the

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news test . That brings you the stories

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from the front lines in the war on

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terror and Operation Iraqi . Freedom

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from all of us here at a s and and

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