Lt. Col. Dale Buckner (right) and Command Sgt. Maj. Edward Parker, the command team for Division Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, led the Soldiers of DSTB through the battalion's second deployment as the lead element of Multi-National Division - Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-09. Above and beyond the battalion's normal mission of aiding and supporting the Soldiers assigned to the 4th Inf. Div. headquarters staff, the DSTB took on numerous new missions that were otherwise handled by different units, to include the Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar sensor and warn mission, the Division Holding Area, Military Transitions Teams, National Policy Transition Teams, the Rear Operations Center, field artillery and fielding a first of its kind fully portable tactical command center.
| Date Taken: | 02.08.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 02.08.2009 16:26 |
| Photo ID: | 150099 |
| VIRIN: | 090208-A-0000T-001 |
| Resolution: | 1560x1750 |
| Size: | 977.66 KB |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 249 |
| Downloads: | 21 |
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