Photo By Staff Sgt. James E. Brown | The Commander of Bravo Battery, 1-206th Field Artillery, 165th Combat Sustainment...... read more read more
By Staff Sgt. James E. Brown Jr.
1st Sustainment Brigade, Public Affairs Office
CAMP Taji, Iraq – Down to the last few minutes employees were still scurrying around, bringing in goods, stocking shelves, and making sure everything was just right, for their shop was about to celebrate its grand opening.
The guest of honor, Maj. David Stapp, a native of McCaskill, Ark., and the Mayor Cell operations officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1-206th Field Artillery, and Ziyadnabeel the co-owner of Ala'a Dian souvenir and gift shop, led off with the festivities with the ribbon cutting ceremony. With one snip of the scissors the ribbon floated to the ground and bright cheerful faces were seen all around. Ala'a Dian souvenir and gift shop was now officially open for business.
Everyone then proceeded inside while Stapp was presented a plaque of Iraq and an Iraqi flag from Ziyadnabeel. Immediately following the presentation of gifts, they moved to the cake cutting ceremony, in which there was more than enough for everyone in attendance.
"My job here is to provide good benefits and low prices to facilitate the life of the Soldiers here in Iraq. We hope that they are going to help us rebuild Iraq and to establish a new country after what happened in 2003, you are welcome in Iraq and we are helping you as much as you are helping us," said Ziyadnabeel.
Spc. David Rodgers, a native of Dardanelle, Ark., and a gunner for the Bravo Battery, 1-206th Field Artillery, 165th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion,1st Sustainment Brigade, said "I like it because it is closer to where we are at and we can get more people over here. I like the people. It's a real good opportunity because the others are so far away and it's hot out there, no one wants to go out. This one is closer and makes it a lot easier on the Soldiers."
"I think it's great, a good opportunity to get some of the cultural gifts," said 2nd Lt. Eva Weatherley, a native of Des Arc, Ark., the assistant operations officer, for the Mayor Cell, as she browsed around to see what the shop had to offer.
The newly opened shop, sponsored in part by the 1st Sustainment Brigade, is located on Irish and 26th Street, it carries a large variety of items from authentic Iraqi souvenirs & gifts, hand tools and small hardware, electronics, refrigerators, DVD/CD players, general contracting office for projects, tobacco products, watches, and a whole lot more.
| Date Taken: | 08.08.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 08.08.2008 05:16 |
| Story ID: | 22258 |
| Location: | IQ |
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