Published for the Soldiers of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and Task Force LibertyVol. 1, Issue 2 March 15, 2005

Inside: Improving local jail, Pg. 4 KBR keeps BCT working, Pg. 5 A citizen’s fight on 2 fronts, Pg. 6

FOB WARHORSE, Iraq. -- Capt. BryanSmith, chaplain of the Brigade TroopsBattalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, TaskForce Lliberty has complete and hearty faithin any convoy he rides with during this timeof war.

“Most Soldiers will bend over backwardsto protect the chaplain,” Smith said. “Whatthe Soldiers see when a chaplain is goingalong on a mission, everything is going to beokay.”

TF Liberty’s 3rd BCT has been deployedsince January. After spending approximately amonth in Kuwait, the unit moved locations toBaquba, Iraq, which is considered a combatzone.

Smith, along with all chaplains, accordingto the Geneva Convention and the Chief ofChaplain’s policy, cannot use or carryweapons. This rule also applies in combatzones.

The Geneva Convention states that if cap-tured, a chaplain must be able to movebetween prisoner of war camps to conduct

Story and photos bySpc. Natalie Loucks3rd BCT PAO

Chaplainsin combat:3rd BTB chaplainexplains role in Iraq

See NON-COMBATANT, Pg. 2

The Hammer Times is published in the interestof the servicemembers of the 3rd Brigade, 3rdInfantry Division, Task Force Liberty. TheHammer Times is an Army-funded newsletterauthorized for members of the U.S. Army, underthe provision of AR 360-1. Contents of theHammer Times are not necessarily the officialviews of, nor endorsed by, the U.S. Government,Department of Defense or Department of the Army.

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3rd BCT PAO NCOIC, Editor, Hammer TimesStaff Sgt. Sean Riley

sean.riley@us.army.mil

3rd BCT PAO Staff WriterSpc. Natalie Loucks

natalie.loucks@us.army.mil

3rd BCT CommanderCol. Steven Salazar

3rd BCT PAOMaj. Steve Warren

steven.warren@us.army.mil

religious services.In order to move locations as a

P.O.W., a Soldier must be consid-ered a non-combatant and there-fore must not be armed.

As a non-combatant in a com-bat zone, chaplains place theirlives in the hands of others. Their

Chaplain’s Assistant will accom-pany them wherever they go.

“If a fire fight were to breakout, my assistant would move meto a safe place and provide mewith security,” Smith explained.

The assistant’s rank spans any-where from a Specialist assignedto company grade chaplains,Sergeant or Staff Sergeant to field

grade chaplains and at theColonel level, a Master Sergeantwith lower enlisted Soldiers areassigned. It is important that theseSoldiers and Non-CommissionedOfficers go to the weapon rangesand qualify with their assignedweapons. They are the chaplain’smain, and often only, source ofsecurity.

“A chaplain is not to grab aweapon, so we must trust ourSoldiers and trust in God,” Smithsaid.

Smith frequently ventures outof the safety of the base, usuallyto the Civil Military OperationsCenter, providing religious sup-port for the convoys with whichhe travels.

“Many Soldiers believe achaplain carries the presence ofGod with them,” Smith said. “It’sa relief.”

Back on the base during adeployment, chaplains and theirassistants whole heartedly carryout their mission to provide reli-gious support to the camp.

They provide religious materi-als, instruction and services, as

well as, bible studies, prayerbreakfasts and counseling to theSoldiers residing in their unit.

“If something happens in aSoldiers life, I want them to feelcomfortable coming to me to talkabout it,” Smith said. “I don’twant their moral dropping orthem making mistakes and nothaving their head in the game.”

According to Smith, theChaplain’s Assistants are helpfulin that they are in the barrackswith the Soldiers.

“Many times, Soldiers willdiscuss problems with the assis-tants,” Smith said “They’re oureyes and keep us posted on theSoldier morale.”

Smith said a simple explana-tion of a chaplains duty is to per-form or provide. If a chaplain cansatisfy the religious needs of aSoldier, he will do his best to pro-vide what he or she needs so thatneed is fulfilled.

The Forward Operating BaseWarhorse chapel is locatedbehind the Norquist Morale,Welfare and Recreation center.

Chaplain (Capt.) Bryan Smith, Brigade Troops Battalion, 3rd BCT, TaskForce Liberty, raises his hands to the Lord as he sings at the Protestantservice held March 5, at the chapel on FOB Warhorse.

Soldiers and U.S. contractors who reside at FOB Warhorse listen intentlyto the sermon given by Smith at the FOB chapel.

Continued from Pg. 1Non-combatant status doesn’t deter chaplain

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Staff photo by Spc. Natalie LoucksSpc. Joy Maine helps 3-year-old birthday boy, Abaas Quais, with a drink of water at a party heldin his honor March 10 at the Teal Medical Facility on FOB Warhorse, Baquba, Iraq. Quais hasbeen at the aid station since March 4 when he was brought in by his grandfather, AhmedAbudun. The medics who care for the child are not sure of the exact cause of his illness.According to Capt. Matthew Carter, the pediatrician from 3rd BCT who has been caring for thechild, said the child has been suffering from a fever and has not grown in over 3 months. Hishands and feet are swollen and blood work shows a low white-blood-cell count. Maine, alongwith Spc. Penny Gainers, another medic of 3rd BCT, work in shifts to make sure Quais is ascomfortable as possible and his medications are given as prescribed. "His favorite foods aresunflower seeds and Frosted Flakes," Gainers said. The two say they have grown attached tothe young Iraqi boy and Maine will travel to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C. with Quaiswhere research will continue on his illness.

A Birthday CelebrationFriday

1 to 3 p.m.Muslim Juma Prayer

6 to 8 p.m.Jewish Prayer and Fellowship

Sunday

8 to 9 a.m.Early Bird Protestant – Chaplain(Capt.) Smith

9 to 10:30 a.m.Gospel – Chaplain (Capt.) Pickens

11 a.m. to NoonMid-Morning Protestant – Chaplain(Maj.) Rauch

12:30 to 1:30 p.m.Latter Day Saints

1:45 to 2:45 p.m.Roman Catholic

8 to 9:30 p.m.Evening Protestant – Chaplain (Capt.)Smith

Bible Study

Tuesday:6 to 7 p.m. at Education Center –

Chaplain (Capt.) Pickens

Wednesday:7 to 8 p.m. at Warhorse Chapel-

Chaplain (Capt.) Smith

Mid-Week Service

Thursday:7 to 8 p.m. at Warhorse Chapel –

Chaplain (Capt.) Pickens

Friday:10:15 p.m. – Chaplain (Capt.) Smith

‘Movie of the Week’

Warhorse ChapelWorship sChedule

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BAQUBA, Iraq. -- Piles of plastic bags,old documents, used Styrofoam plates, dirtyclothes, used cans and rotten food are scat-tered over mounds of dirt, sand and ash. Thestench of decay and smoke attracts flies andvermin to feast on the rotting refuse.

This may sound like a description of yourlocal landfill, but for the Soldiers, Iraqi policeand guards, at the Diayala Provincial jail, it’sjust another day at the office.

In another area of the jail compound, maleIraqi detainees pace on a runway behind arusted fence. A three-foot viewing lane sepa-rates prisoner from the outside world.

Directly across a narrow alley, is a well-used door.

“Hand me your weapons before you go in,”an Iraqi prison guard commands in brokenEnglish. The door creeps open and four Iraqiwomen prisoners are found. Their attire is thatof the typical Iraqi woman; long skirts andblouses of dark colors and scarves drapedover their heads leaving only their facesexposed. Two women in the group stand upand smile, happy to have visitors.

U.S. Military Police personnel from the3rd Brigade Combat Team, Task ForceLiberty are stationed at the Joint CoordinationCenter located directly next to the jail, indowntown Baquba, Iraq.

Their main mission is to train the Iraqipolice working at the jail, on proper proce-dures including hand cuffing, prisoner search-es and other actionsinvolved in detain-ing prisoners,explained Staff Sgt.Robert Bing, Non-c o m m i s s i o n e dOfficer in Chargeof the DiyalaProvince jail.

The 3rd BCT,MP Company isalso working to improve the conditions of thejail.

Waste buildup and disposal is a problemand if not corrected, the sewage could back upinto the jail causing health and sanitationissues.

Burn bins are used for the disposal of thetrash, however, Staff Sgt. Chauncey Reid, amedic in Company C, 203rd Forward SupportBattalion, who was on a medical reconnais-sance mission said the bins are too close to thedining facility and should be moved.

“This is an ongoing problem that is slowlybeing corrected,” Bing said.

The site is expected to be cleared, leveledand sewage holes are to be filled in withcement to stop the sewage leakage.

There are nearly 350 prisoners housed inthe jail.

The female holding cell is a small concreteroom consisting of a hygiene area and mat-tresses aligned on the floor. Sanitarily, thefemale holding area is the most hygienic of allthe cells.

Bing explained sanitation is a larger issuefor females and could be a problem if nottaken care of.

Water is available to the inmates and bathsare taken regularly.

“They are always ask-ing for shampoo,” saidSgt. Kareena Lechner,MP Company, 3rd BCT,TF Liberty.

The inmates are in forvarious crimes includingprostitution, assault andmurder.

Both U.S. and Iraqi personnel of the jail areworking to move the female prisoners to ahalfway house somewhere in Baquba.

The males in the Diyala Province criminalsystem are divided into two groups residing intwo locations with the compound.

The Criminal Investigation Departmentcell holds the detainee's that have beenaccused of serious crimes.

The less severely accused prisoners areheld in the general population cell.

“The youngest inmate, at the time of thisreport, is a 15-year-old male who has beenaccused of murder.

The Iraqi commander of the DiyalaProvincial jail, Col. Muhammed HamoodMuhammed Al Ta’ey, is responsible for the

transfer of the detainee's to a jail in Baghdad,Bing said.

Family visitation day occurs everyThursday and alternates weeks between themale and the female detainees.

Each visit is five minutes long and groupsof 25 visitors are allowed to enter the visita-tion area at one time.

“Male visitors get badges,” Bing said. “Itgets confusing with so many people in here atone time. It’s hard to determine who is a pris-oner and who is a visitor.”

Families are allowed to bring packagescontaining items such as hygiene products,laundry soap and clean clothes.

All visitors and their packages are searchedbefore and after the visit to ensure there hasbeen no exchange of illegal paraphernalia.

“The biggest problem we have with most-ly the male inmates is that they always wantwhat they can’t have,” Bing explained.

Prisoners are denied items which maycause harm to themselves or others such asspoons and matches from the prepared mealpackages.

Families are allowed to donate money fortheir inmate to have “commissary privileges”where they can purchase items within jail reg-ulations.

The Soldiers are working hard with theIraqi police at the Diyala Province Jail toensure a proper and working system is inplace long after they leave.

Piece by piece, section by section, personby person, and quite literally, brick by brick,the 3rd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., along with the Iraqipolice and the Iraqi army have great hopes foradvancing the Diyala Province.

3rd BCT helps to improve Baquba jail

“It gets confusing with so manypeople in here at one time. It’shard to determine who is a prison-er and who is a visitor.”

--Staff Sgt. Robert Bing NCOIC of the Diyala Province jail

Burn bins located behind the Diyala Province jail and the Joint Coordination Center burn through-out the day. The 3rd BCT Military Police assigned there are aiming to correct the sewage and wasteproblems plaguing the jail.

Story and photo by Spc. Natalie Loucks3rd BCT PAO

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FOB WARHORSE, Iraq. --Working in a combat zone can betime consuming, stressful andvery tiring. Soldiers residing atForward Operating BaseWarhorse, Iraq may find them-selves working an average of 12-16 hours daily.

When all work has stopped forthe day, or at least for themoment, time is a precious com-modity and Soldiers want tospend that time as comfortably,and carefree, as possible.

So, when the door to the trail-er that a hard working Soldierinhabits is broken or the light inthat trailer burns out, the plans fora relaxing evening are conceiv-ably ruined.

To ensure these problems aretaken care of, the Kellogg, Brownand Root Inc. Engineering andConstruction Company is avail-able and accessible 7 a.m. to

7p.m., seven days a week.KBR provides many services

including locksmithing, plumb-ing, construction, hazardousmaterial disposal and more.

Although the company’s baseoffices are at Warhorse, the 126person team is distributed to fourother locations including FOB’sNormandy, Gabe, Scunion andthe Civil Military OperationsCenter in nearby downtownBaquba.

Members of the companyextend further than just theAmerican workers who deploy.

Iraqi national personnel andmembers of the “1st KuwaitiTeam” also contribute to the manpower of this busy corporation.

KBR has been at Warhorse for16 months already and has beendeployed as a private militarycontractor in Iraq for three years.

“It takes a special kind of per-son to do deploy with Soldiers,without a weapon, in a combatzone,” said retired Command Sgt.Maj. David Farmer, site managerfor KBR.

The average deployment for aKBR employee is one year;Farmer said. Many of the workerswant to stay longer because theyenjoy working with the Soldiers.

Although many of the KBRstaff members are retired military,they serve as non-combatants.

Dixie King, an electrician forthe company who has a nephewin the military, said she has con-cern for the Soldiers and theirsafety.

She, and other members of theKBR team, say they miss the lit-

tle things the most.“The hardest part of being here

is not being able to drive mytruck,” King said. “I miss mytruck and my dog,” she addedwith a laugh.

David DeBord, who works inpest control for KBR, said it’shard to be away from his family.Debord has been in Iraq for 14months.

The Warhorse constructionteam is currently working on con-structing a new gym in the centerof the base. The new gym isexpected to be complete by theend of March.

The structure will provideSoldiers and civilian contractorsof FOB Warhorse a place forweight training, cardio workouts,indoor and outdoor basketballand, if possible, a football andsoccer field. The new gym willalso have a bathroom and showerfacility.

“I find the best part of beinghere is seeing that the Soldiers arenoticing the changes in the base,”DeBord said.

“The camp has really changed,even in the seven months that Ihave been here,” King added.

A future KBR project in theworks, is a possible refurbishingthe Norquist Morale, Welfare andRecreation hanger in the center ofcamp where the current gym islocated.

KBR keeps Warhorse working

Dixie King, a electrician for Kellog, Brown & Root, fixes a light fixture onthe wall of the Mayor’s Cell located at FOB Warhorse, Iraq. King and hercolleagues work diligently day or night to maintain the many buildings andupkeep of the FOBs.

KBR plans to have construction on the new gym facility completed by the end of March, 2005. The new gym willhave a new weight room, cardio workout equipment, and indoor and outdoor basketball courts.

Story and photos by Spc. Natalie Loucks3rd BCT PAO

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BAQUBA, Iraq. -- During the first half ofthe twentieth century, the German GeneralStaff’s strategic nightmare was being forcedto fight a war on two fronts. The First andSecond World Wars demonstrated that theirfears were justified: Germany was incapableof winning such a dual-sided conflict.

Consider the demands placed on an indi-vidual soldier who is asked to fight a war ontwo fronts. They seem insurmountable.Nevertheless, one officer now serving withthe 3rd Brigade Combat Team of Task ForceLiberty, has succeeded where the GermanHigh Command could not.

Capt. John Gutierrez of Company A, 411Civil Affairs Battalion, is fighting on twofronts in the Global War on Terrorism. And instark contrast to his German predecessors, heis winning.

Gutierrez is an Army Reservist who hailsfrom McAllen, Texas. In his civilian career, heis a supervisory agent for the U.S. BorderPatrol. He often works at the McAllen MillerInternational Airport in Southern Texas,where flights arrive daily from several coun-tries around the world. Airports, as we know,are susceptible points in the war on terror.International terrorists often target them toundermine confidence in the transportationsystem; they try to gain access to jets takingoff and landing at these facilities; and theyexploit airport vulnerability in order to infil-

trate the United States.McAllen Miller Airport is on the front lines

in the war on terror. Security officials must bediligent in searching baggage, sweepingplanes for explosives and screening airlinepassengers seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.In fact, this latter scenario confrontedGutierrez and his border patrol partner, LuisRocha, on July 19, 2004. Their rapid responseneutralized a possible threat to the security ofthe U.S.

A woman from Pakistan tried to land in theU.S. with a South African passport. She raisedsuspicions when during routine questioning,she refused to provide information about herlast visit to the country. Adding to their suspi-cions, several pages of her passport weremissing. Gutierrez and Rocha immediatelyforwarded the suspect’s name to the FederalBureau of Investigation and the NationalTargeting Center. The agencies sent backword that the woman was a “person of inter-est” who was wanted for questioning, and shewas detained. Several weeks later, as the sus-pect’s case came to court, the South Africangovernment announced that a criminal ringworking inside its national passport office hadbeen selling travel documents to Al Qaedaoperatives and other international terrorists.

As a result of their timely efforts, whichprevented the entry of a possible Al Qaedaagent into the U.S., Gutierrez and his partnerearned recognition from the U.S. Customs andBorder Protection Agency. They received theannual Diana Dean and Jose Melendez-PerezAnti-Terrorism Award for 2004. TheCommissioner of Customs and BorderProtection, Robert Bonner, correlated thedeeds behind this award to our nation’s wellbeing: “No other agency of our governmenthas a more important mission than CPB: pre-

venting terrorists and instruments of terrorfrom entering our country, while facilitatingthe flow of legitimate trade and lawful travel-ers.” The American border, in other words, isone front in the war on terror. Gutierrez ishelping us to win that battle in Texas.

Gutierrez’s wife, Norma, accepted theCustoms and Border Patrol award on hisbehalf at a ceremony in D.C. on Jan. 7, whichhe could not attend. Why not? BecauseGutierrez is busy fighting terrorism on a sec-ond front. He is a Civil Affairs team leaderserving in support of the 1-10 Field ArtilleryBattalion in Diyala province. His home unit isthe 694 Maintenance Battalion in SanAntonio, and was previously assigned to the321 Civil Affairs Brigade in the same city.

Gutierrez and his team members – Sgt.Shawn Nachurski, Sgt. Jonathon Oetken andSgt. William Olander – are stationed atForward Operating Base Gabe, on the out-skirts of the city of Baquba. They are support-ing the mission of 1-10 by carrying out a vari-ety of civil affairs missions, including theassessment of towns and villages in the areaof operations, meeting with local governmentofficials to consolidate relations withCoalition Forces, the evaluation of schoolsand universities, appraisals of the local com-munications and transportation systems, andthe procurement of project funding in order toimmediately impact and improve the lives ofthe people of Diyala.

Gutierrez’s Civil Affairs Team Alpha hasrecently participated in two significant mis-sions in support of the local maneuver ele-ment.

Operation Fast Gas provided over 70,000gallons of fuel to Baquba car owners bystreamlining operations at local gas stations.Operation Backbreaker stood up an Iraqipolice station in the city of Buhriz, a refugefor insurgents on the Southern edge ofBaquba.

Both of these missions have helped to sta-bilize the province of Diyala and have thuscontributed to the success of Operation IraqiFreedom III.

In the twentieth century the GermanGeneral Staff feared major armed conflict ontwo fronts. Today Gutierrez is fearlessly fight-ing in two theaters of war. He recognizes thatsuccess in one often leads to victory in theother.

“A lot of the training I received in theBorder Patrol,” he said, “has served me wellhere in Iraq, including weapons training, deal-ing with foreign nationals, instilling a senseon pride in my work, and being able to workalone over long periods of time.”

Gutierrez is setting an example by fightingat home and abroad, he is helping the U.S. towin on some of the many fronts in the war onterror.

Fighting Terrorism on Two FrontsOne Soldiers dedicationto his country extendsbeyond military uniformStory and photo by Sgt. Joseph Skelly 411th Civil Affairs Battalion

Capt. John Gutierrez (center), and members of his CAT A team, Sgt. Jonathon Oetken (left), and Sgt.Billy Olander (right), after a successful mission in Baquba.

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Staff photo by Spc. Natalie LoucksStaff Sgt. Pablo Villanueva (center), Sgt. 1st Class Paul Holt (right), and Spc. Jeremy Squires (left), of Company A, 101 Military IntelligenceBattalion, 3rd BCT, Task Force Liberty, prepare a Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Arial Vehicle for a launch by rolling it on to a hydraulic catapult,March 5 at FOB Warhorse, Iraq. Before a launch, the launch/recovery team must prime the vehicle by checking the flight surface, the battery, andthe payload, or camera. The solar panels that were covering the wings in order to protect the fuel, located in the wings, from the heat, must beremoved. When all checks are complete, the $617,000 remote control plane is then launched into the wind, from a hydraulic catapult where itreaches a speed of 70 knots by the time it reaches the end of the launcher. The Shadow soars to 1400 feet, mean sea level, gathering intelligencefrom a more advantageous position through a camera. The mission team, located in the 3rd BCT Tactical Operations Center is able to conductconvoy support, raid support, raid reconnaissance and counter-fire operations through the vision of the payload. When landing, the planes arrest-ing hook catches ground based cables with the wind to its rear.

Prepping for Take-Off

Faulkenburg TheaterMovie Schedule

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Con-AirThe Princess Diaries 2

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3 p.m.6 p.m.

8:30 p.m.

Showtimes:12:30 p.m.

3 p.m.6 p.m.

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3 p.m.6 p.m.

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Showtimes:12:30 p.m.

3 p.m.6 p.m.

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March 16The Incredibles

Office SpaceTaxi

Kinsey

March 17Alien Vs. Predator

Flight Of The PhoenixThe Program

Team America

March 18The Princess Diaries

KinseyCollateralMr. 3000

March 19Beverly Hills Ninja

Con-AirOffice SpaceThe Program

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As many of you mayknow, Iraq is home to thefamous Camel Spider. Evenbefore I arrived in Kuwait, Iheard of the legend of thecamel spider. According toreliable sources (at theDFAC) this spider:

Can be as large as adinner plate and as tall as acat.

Can run at speeds asfast as 25 miles per hour andmakes a screaming noise asit runs.

Can leap high enoughto attach itself to a camel’sstomach.

Has an anesthesia inits bite so the camel (or theSoldier) doesn’t know it’sthere.

Can gnaw through acamel’s (or a Soldier’s) bellyovernight.

And is not afraid ofhumans.

The truth is camel spidersare big, but nowhere near as big as dinner plates or cats. Adult spiderscan have a leg-span of up to five inches which is about the size of thelargest saucer in my daughter’s tea set. They are extremely fast, forspiders, but their top speed of about 10 miles per hour is much lowerthan the top speed of a human (athletes can typically run at speedsaround 23 miles per hour for short distances without body armor).

In fact, camel spiders are not technically spiders. They are some-times called “wind scorpions” but they are not scorpions either. They

are a different species ofarthropod called solipugidswhich are not venomous andcan’t spin webs. The name“camel spider” may comefrom their often being foundon corpses of camels whichhas lead to the myth that theyactually can kill camels. Intruth, they will use the bodyof a camel to prey upon otherinsects that are attracted tothe rotting flesh.

Like most creatures small-er than us, camel spiders donot attack humans unless pro-voked. When they do chooseto fight they have formidablejaws that can render anextremely painful non-poi-sonous bite. Camel spiderscrush their prey, which typi-cally includes insects, smallreptiles, rodents and occa-sionally birds, into tiny bitsand suck in the juices. Camelspiders are attracted to shade,so they sometimes appear tobe chasing humans as theyfollow the shadows ofhumans and moving vehicles.

So, the bottom line is;camel spiders are big, fat,

nasty creatures, but are not particularly dangerous to humans. Likemost things in nature if you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone.If you check your boots before you put them on and shake out yoursleeping bag before you crawl in, you should be able to avoid surpris-es.

(Editor’s note: Capt. Mark Hayden is the 3rd Brigade MedicalOperations Officer (MOO). Questions for the MOO can be emailed tomark.hayden@us.army.mil.)

Your friend, the Camel SpiderBy Capt. Mark Hayden3rd BCT Medical Ops. Officer

Pvt. John Chrzanowski, secures a weaponfrom an Iraqi national at the weapons checkpoint at the Provincial Government Center indowntown Baquba, Iraq. Leaders in the DiyalaProvince, along with interpreters and othermembers of the government must visit theGovernment Center, nicknamed the "BlueDome" for press conferences and meetingsregularly. Procedures to enter the "BlueDome" include being checked at the gate byan Iraqi army or Iraqi police guard, clearingweapons at the clearing barrels to ensure noammunition is loaded and exchangingweapons for numbered tokens to be givenback at the end of the visit. Weapons otherthan those carried by U.S. military personnelare not allowed in the Blue Dome.

Staff photo by Spc. Natalie Loucks

Keeping Blue Dome Secure

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