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Soldiers from V Corps’ Company A, 299th ForwardSupport Battalion and Fort Hood, Texas’ 20thEngineer Battalion emplace barriers at the Hurriyahoint security station in Baghdad.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2007
SUPPORT SOLDIERS, ENGINEERS BUILD NEW JOINTSECURITY STATION IN BAGHDAD
By Sgt. Shawanna Johnson
299th Forward Support Battalion
BAGHDAD, Iraq --
Baghdad's Hurriyah neighborhood has a new joint U.S.-Iraqisecurity station thanks to the efforts of Germany-based support Soldiers from VCorps’ 1st Infantry Division and engineer troops from Fort Hood, Texas.The station is designed to give Americanand Iraqi Soldier a safe base in which tolive and conduct missions in the area.Soldiers of Company A, 299th ForwardSupport Battalion, part of 1st InfantryDivision's 2nd Brigade Combat Team,played a critical role in the construction of the station. The "Assassins" wereresponsible for transporting and assisting with the emplacement of the concretebarriers used to construct a fortified perimeter around the JSS. The transportation of the barriers took five days.
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