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Sgt. Rachel Brune
101st Sustainment Brigade
LSA DIAMONDBACK, Iraq (June 14, 2006) " Soldiers of the 142nd Corps Support Battalion celebrated the Army's 231st birthday with the grand opening of a new Morale, Welfare and Recreation center and a new spiritual fitness center.
Albanian and Iraqi soldiers stationed on the base joined the 142nd for a barbecue, volleyball and skits, as well as the grand opening of the Humvee Egress Assistance Trainer, or HEAT.
As a disc jockey played tunes over a loudspeaker system, a crowd gather to watch a television screen, connected to a pair of 'spycam" glasses, worn by the HEAT participants and showing what they viewed as they tumbled over.
The battalion S-6, or communications, section arranged the spycam to give the Soldiers the opportunity to see through the eyes of someone going through the training, even if they couldn't participate yet, according to Staff Sgt. Ronald Morgan, section NCOIC. Morgan and his Soldiers used commercial equipment to set up the system.
"We do what we do," said Morgan.
As the battalion commanders and senior enlisted Soldiers strapped themselves into the HEAT, Staff Sgt. Bradley Livingston, 872nd Maintenance Company, got busy dishing up barbecued chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs.
Livingston, an Army food service NCO and a civilian audiology technician, from Moorehead, Minn., stepped up and took over the food line when there was a delay due to lack of servers.
As Soldiers from the battalion milled around, eating and drinking, American and Albanian Soldiers started a game of volleyball on the new court. Soon a crowd gathered to watch and applaud good moves made on both sides.
After the main course, the youngest Soldier and the oldest Soldier grasped a saber to cut the Army birthday cake, melting quickly in the evening heat.
Sgt. 1st Class Derek Jaco, 872nd Maint. Co. personnel and finance NCOIC, of Layton, Utah, endured some joking about his year of birth, 1947, as he cut the cake with Pfc. Nathan Smith, Battery B, 2-5th Field Artillery Regiment, from Amarillo, Texas, who was born in 1987.
With cake in hand, the Soldiers then sat down to enjoy a series of humorous skits presented by each of the battalion's subordinate units.
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| Date Taken: | 06.24.2006 |
| Date Posted: | 06.24.2006 14:25 |
| Story ID: | 6948 |
| Location: | MOSUL, IQ |
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