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“There is nothing so powerful as truth” DANIEL WEBSTER This is the first in a series of articles by award- winning reporter-photographer Shawne K. Wick- ham. The series will continue Monday through Friday this week in the New Hampshire Union Leader, followed by more coverage next Sunday and a special section March 27. By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM New Hampshire Sunday News CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait A GRENADE-TOTING GNOME, an unlikely patch of grass and the New Hampshire flag flying proudly: Mem- bers of the New Hampshire National Guard serving here in the desert are surrounded by small but cherished reminders of home. Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson is the executive officer of the Guard’s 197th FAB, the third in command here. He’s from Concord, and he didn’t come to Kuwait alone. At a mission briefing for a reporter, Wilson manages to hold onto the dignity befitting his rank as he sets a green gnome holding a grenade in the center of the conference table. It’s a gift from his family, he explains, and he promised his younger daughter, Anna Beth, who’s 10, that he’d bring it wherever he travels in Kuwait. She even gave it a name: “Stinky pants,” the colonel says, and the battle for dignity is lost. Such moments of levity don’t disguise the se- riousness of the mission here. Wilson, a 30-year- old veteran of the Guard (he joined when he was a junior at Dover High School), was in Iraq in 2004 with the 197th Field Artillery; that unit became part of the 197th Fires Brigade when the Guard was restructured a few years back. Now, as combat operations in Iraq wind down New Hampshire Sunday News ©2011 Union Leader Corp., Manchester, N.H. 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But on- going litigation makes it clear Lynch’s two-year battle to take excess reserves from the New Hampshire Medical Malprac- tice Joint Underwriting Associ- ation to help balance the state budget is not over. JUA policyholders allege Suit raps Lynch, AG in bid to divert $110m . Alleges court was misled: Lawyer says effort to use JUA reserves for the budget an “abuse of power.” NEW HAMPSHIRE GUARD IN Above, Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson of Concord, executive officer of the 197th Fires Brigade, promised his daughter Anna Beth that he would bring “Stinky Pants” the Army Gnome with him to Kuwait. At left, Private 1st Class Derek McMahon, 25, of Plaistow, thought the compound where he works needed a touch of home, so he suggested planting grass. Some scoffed, but his sergeant ordered the “high heat high sun” variety of seed from Amazon and some potting soil, and it did the trick. McMahon waters the 4-by-12-foot patch daily and expects it will need even more attention when summer comes to Kuwait. SHAWNE K. WICKHAM PHOTOS/SUNDAY NEWS Actor John Krasinski of “The Office” graces this week’s cover. By CAROL ROBIDOUX Sunday News Correspondent DERRY — Springing ahead is simple, in theory. But ask Phil D’Avanza about daylight saving time and he will enumerate the clock towers he painstaking- ly maintains. He will offer to take you to see how it’s done, up the rickety old wooden stairwells that lead to even more rickety ladders with impossibly narrow footholds that lead to three different levels of guts and gears in need of bi-annual adjusting and oiling, just to make sure that time goes on, and chim- ing persists. “Between birds and bats These guys have a lot of time in their hands . Clock changers: The big hands don’t just move themselves when daylight saving time comes around. CAROL ROBIDOUX V See Kuwait, Page A12 Inside Inside V In NH: Seabrook Station is built to withstand natural disasters, its owner says — Page A10 Philip D’Avanza is “Father Time” in New Hampshire — keeper of many of the state’s clock towers. Here, he prepares to oil the arms of the Central Congregational tower clock in Derry on Saturday after setting the clock an hour ahead for daylight saving time. V See Lawsuit, Page A5 REUTERS A woman carries belongings from her tsunami-stricken home in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on Saturday. VSee Clocks, Page A4 By CHRIS MEYERS and KIM KYUNGHOON Reuters SENDAI, Japan — Japan faced a fresh radia- tion threat at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor in what could be the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. The previous day, thousands were evacuated after an explosion and leak from the facility’s No. 1 reactor in Fuku- shima, 150 miles north of Tokyo. Strong after- shocks continued to shake Japan’s main island as the desperate search pressed on for survivors from Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami, and the death toll was expected to rise. Media reports say it is likely to ex- ceed 1,800. Nuclear plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said radiation levels around the Fuku- shima Daiichi plant had risen above the safety limit, but it did not mean an “immediate threat” to human health. It said earlier it was preparing to vent steam to Death toll up; nuke concerns spreading . Japan earthquake: Experts estimate up to 160 people may have been exposed to radiation. V See Earthquake, Page A10
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Transcript of UL coverage of 197th Fires Brigade, March 2011
“There is nothing so powerful as truth”
DANIEL WEBSTER
This is the fi rst in a series of articles by award-winning reporter-photographer Shawne K. Wick-ham. The series will continue Monday through Friday this week in the New Hampshire Union Leader, followed by more coverage next Sunday and a special section March 27.
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAMNew Hampshire Sunday News
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait
A GRENADE-TOTING GNOME, an unlikely patch of grass and the New Hampshire fl ag fl ying proudly: Mem-bers of the New Hampshire National Guard serving here in the desert are
surrounded by small but cherished reminders of home.
Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson is the executive offi cer of the Guard’s 197th FAB, the third in command here. He’s from Concord, and he didn’t come to
Kuwait alone.At a mission
briefi ng for a reporter, Wilson manages to hold onto the dignity befi tting his rank as he sets a green
gnome holding a grenade in the center of the conference table. It’s a gift from his family, he explains, and he promised his younger daughter, Anna Beth, who’s 10, that he’d bring it wherever he travels in Kuwait.
She even gave it a name: “Stinky pants,” the colonel says, and the battle for dignity is lost.
Such moments of levity don’t disguise the se-riousness of the mission here. Wilson, a 30-year-old veteran of the Guard (he joined when he was a junior at Dover High School), was in Iraq in 2004 with the 197th Field Artillery; that unit became part of the 197th Fires Brigade when the Guard was restructured a few years back.
Now, as combat operations in Iraq wind down
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Hospital tax bill in the balanceThe city of Portsmouth has collected hundreds of
thousands of dollars in property taxes from the local hospital, but that revenue stream could dry up if it changes hands and assumes nonprofi t status. A court decision is key. VPage A9
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young people and their supporters to Nashua and Sanborn Regional high schools. VPage A6
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Reminders of home on a far-away mission
MEETING THE TROOPS IN KUWAIT
By NANCY WESTNew Hampshire Sunday News
A lawsuit against the state claims Gov. John Lynch and Attorney General Michael Delaney deliberately misled the court, lawmakers and the public as they tried unsuccess-
fully to divert $110 million in reserves from a medical mal-practice insurance plan to the state’s general fund.
Lynch and Delaney strongly denied the allegations. But on-going litigation makes it clear Lynch’s two-year battle to take excess reserves from the New Hampshire Medical Malprac-tice Joint Underwriting Associ-ation to help balance the state budget is not over.
JUA policyholders allege
Suit raps Lynch, AGin bid to divert $110m .Alleges court was misled: Lawyer says effort to use JUA reserves for the budget an “abuse of power.”
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Above, Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson of Concord, executive officer of the 197th Fires Brigade, promised his daughter Anna Beth that he would bring “Stinky Pants” the Army Gnome with him to Kuwait. At left, Private 1st Class Derek McMahon, 25, of Plaistow, thought the compound where he works needed a touch of home, so he suggested planting grass. Some scoffed, but his sergeant ordered the “high heat high sun” variety of seed from Amazon and some potting soil, and it did the trick. McMahon waters the 4-by-12-foot patch daily and expects it will need even more attention when summer comes to Kuwait.
SHAWNE K. WICKHAM PHOTOS/SUNDAY NEWS
Actor John Krasinski of “The Office” graces this week’s cover.
By CAROL ROBIDOUXSunday News Correspondent
DERRY — Springing ahead is simple, in theory.
But ask Phil D’Avanza about daylight saving time and he will enumerate the clock towers he painstaking-ly maintains. He will offer to take you to see how it’s done, up the rickety old wooden
stairwells that lead to even more rickety ladders with impossibly narrow footholds that lead to three different levels of guts and gears in need of bi-annual adjusting and oiling, just to make sure that time goes on, and chim-ing persists.
“Between birds and bats
These guys have a lotof time in their hands.Clock changers: The big hands don’t just move themselves when daylight saving time comes around.
CAROL ROBIDOUX
VSee Kuwait, Page A12 Inside Inside VIn NH: Seabrook Station is built to withstand natural disasters, its owner says — Page A10
Philip D’Avanza is “Father Time” in New Hampshire — keeper of many of the state’s clock towers. Here, he prepares to oil the arms of the Central Congregational tower clock in Derry on Saturday after setting the clock an hour ahead for daylight saving time. VSee Lawsuit, Page A5
REUTERS
A woman carries belongings from her tsunami-stricken home in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on Saturday.
VSee Clocks, Page A4
By CHRIS MEYERS and KIM KYUNGHOONReuters
SENDAI, Japan — Japan faced a fresh radia-tion threat at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor in what could be the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.
The previous day, thousands were evacuated after an explosion and leak from the facility’s No. 1 reactor in Fuku-shima, 150 miles north of Tokyo.
Strong after-shocks continued to shake Japan’s main island as the desperate search pressed on for survivors from Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami, and the death toll was expected to rise. Media reports say it is likely to ex-ceed 1,800.
Nuclear plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said radiation levels around the Fuku-shima Daiichi plant had risen above the safety limit, but it did not mean an “immediate threat” to human health.
It said earlier it was preparing to vent steam to
Death tollup; nukeconcernsspreading.Japan earthquake: Experts estimate up to 160 people may have been exposed to radiation.
VSee Earthquake, Page A10
over the next nine months, the 197th Fires Brigade is playing a key role in this new mission.
Its focus is on command and control operations, force protection and providing convoy security for troops and equipment going in and out of Iraq. There are New Hamp-shire soldiers at fi ve bases in Kuwait, including a port on the Persian Gulf.
“The brigade has a huge geographic span,” Wilson said.
“It’s not just the 700 soldiers from the little state of New Hampshire. The sphere of infl uence we have right now is really signifi cant.”
Many brigade members would prefer to be doing what they’re trained to do as fi eld artillerymen, their leaders acknowledge. Instead, they’re doing what Wilson called a “non-standard” mission here in Kuwait. “We obviously don’t shoot any rockets or launch artillery rounds.”
But Wilson said the current mission may prove to be even more important historically when U.S. forces fi nally leave Iraq to pursue its own destiny. “That’s a big mark on the wall, and to be able to say we had a big part in doing that and setting up the nation of Iraq to be a completely independent democracy, is a big deal,” Wilson said.
There are nearly 2,500 mem-bers in the Brigade here; Guard units from Rhode Island, West Virginia and Michigan joined the New Hampshire folks during their training at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin last fall.
March is the rainy season here, and it’s rained at least part of the past four days. It’s a warm rain, like the kind New Hampshire gets in May.
At times, there’s a hint of the sea in the air from the nearby Persian Gulf.
The soldiers don’t mind the rain; it keeps down the dust that otherwise seems to get everywhere.
“It’s in your ears, on your uniform, in your boots,” said Maj. Greg Heilshorn of Bar-rington. He’s the longtime public affairs offi cer for the National Guard. That’s the job he’s doing over here as well, with a staff of three soldiers who are recording this historic mission in words, photos and videos.
The brigade headquarters is here at Camp Arifjan. The New Hampshire state fl ag fl ies proudly inside the compound, and offi ce signs bear the New Hampshire motto: Live Free or Die.
Other guardsmen run the Camp Command Cell, known
locally as the “Mayor’s Cell.”The cell’s commander, Lt.
Col. Nicholas Adler of Port-land, Maine, said there can be as many as 6,000 people living at Arifjan at a given time. Adler’s team is in charge of keeping the camp running smoothly; that means dealing with contractors, generators, toilets, water, food, uniforms and other supplies that keep the Army at peak operation.
Someday, Adler said, he’ll tell his 3-year-old daughter, Nicole, “I was the mayor of a small city.”
You can buy a Nathan’s hotdog, a Taco Bell taco or a Starbucks mocha grande here. There’s a store where soldiers can fi nd anything they need or want, from Wii and Xbox game systems to clothing and souvenirs. A recreation facility has pool tables, a movie the-ater and big TVs where soldiers
lined up Friday to watch news of the earthquake in Japan. The food in the mess halls is hearty and plentiful, and the coffee is good and strong.
There are two gyms that get lots of use early mornings and evenings. Outside, there are tennis courts, a new track, even a swimming pool, although no one seemed to be using it.
But surrounding all those creature comforts is an awful lot of concrete: Thick blast walls and jersey barriers make it impossible to forget this is a military installation and the nation is at war.
Another reminder came at 7 a.m. Friday, when the loud-speakers — what the soldiers call “the Big Voice” — an-nounced, “Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!” It’s not some strange Army ritual to encourage
physical fi tness.The Big Voice proceeded to
tell everyone to secure their weapons, fi nd overhead cover and check in with superiors. One soldier takes cover under a pizza shop’s awning, another under an air conditioner.
There’s never been a missile attack on an Army base in Ku-wait, according to Sgt. 1st Class Neal Mitchell of Enfi eld, the non-commissioned offi cer in charge of public affairs. But he said these drills are important reminders to soldiers not to let down their guard.
Mitchell is a former Marine who joined the Army National Guard after 9/11. “I had to do something,” he said. He ran a gun truck team in Iraq in 2004 and now works full time for the Guard as its retention offi cer.
When the 197th was de-
ployed, Mitchell volunteered. “How can I sit back in Man-chester while everyone is over here on deployment? You can’t do it,” he said.
There are many New Hamp-shire soldiers who made the same decision.
The Mayor’s Cell can claim one of the few patches of grass in the whole camp.
Private 1st Class Derek McMahon of Plaistow, a technician in the emergency operations center, decided the place needed some fi xing up. He used sandbags to landscape around the entrance to each tent and trailer. Then he sug-gested to the NCO in charge, Sgt. 1st Class Clyde Lewis, “We should have some grass somewhere.”
Lewis didn’t laugh. Instead, he got on amazon.com and ordered some “high heat, high sun” grass seed and two 50-pound bags of potting soil. “It just makes it distinctive around here,” McMahon said.
He dutifully waters the 12-by-4-foot patch twice a day and put up a canvas awning to try to protect the tender shoots from the 110-degree heat that’s coming soon.
“I think it’s a touch of home for the rest of us,” said Maj. Jeff Walz of Derry.
“It’s leaving your mark,” McMahon said.
March 11 marked the halfway point of the brigade’sone-year deployment. Some soldiers have been taking their two-week leaves to go home. And an advance team from the Minnesota Guard brigade that will replace the New Hamp-shire soldiers arrived last week to begin learning the ropes.
As of now, the transfer of authority is planned for late summer, and the 197th FAB expects to come home in September.
Wilson said that kind of transition is a lot like a relay race. “My picture of success is successfully handing off that baton without them dropping it.”
Page A12 • NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS • March 13, 2011 From Page One
SHAWNE K. WICKHAM PHOTOS/SUNDAY NEWS
Kuwaitis camping outside the perimeter of Camp Arifjan care for a prize camel the family recently purchased for 50,000 Kuwaiti dinar. That’s $150,000 in American dollars. As summer looms, coming to a close is the camping season, when even affluent Kuwaitis return to the desert to show respect for their Bedouin heritage.
The sign outside 197th Fires Brigade’s Tactical Operations Center displays the New Hampshire motto and the brigade’s nickname, Granite Thunder, as the New Hampshire flag flies inside the Camp Arifjan compound in Kuwait.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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KuwaitKuwait Continued From Page A1Continued From Page A1
New Hampshire is never far from the soldiers’ minds, as the state’s motto also is displayed throughout the offices of the 197th Fires Brigade at Camp Arifjan.
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75 MO.
2008 CHEVY SUBURBAN 4x4NAV. • DVD ENT.• REAR CAMERA • PWR SUNROOF • #G7507A
SALEPRICE:
$34,995 OR BUYFOR ONLY $534 PER MO.
75 MO.
2008 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LT 4x4POWER SUNROOF • 18” ALLOY WHEELS • #U5065
SALEPRICE:
$21,675 OR BUYFOR ONLY $320 PER MO.
75 MO.
2010 CHEVY SILVERADO EXT-CAB LT7700 MILES • PWR WIN/LOCKS/SEAT • #U5075
SALEPRICE:
$26,995 OR BUYFOR ONLY $406 PER MO.
75 MO.
2007 SATURN ION SEDANAUTOMATIC • A/C • PWR WIN/LOCKS • 32K MILES • #U5083SALE
PRICE:$9,995 OR BUY
FOR ONLY $139 PER MO.75 MO.
2007 HARLEY-DAVIDSON SPORTSTER CUSTOMCUSTOM ROTERS, FENDERS, HANDLEBARS AND MORE! #G7333D
SALEPRICE:
$5,295
