Wednesday, March 19, 2008

MNF-I Deputy Commander Visits PB Assassin

Lt. Col. Geoff Ellerson (center), from Columbus, Ga., National Police Training Team chief for 3rd Brigade, 1st National Police Division, talks to Col. Wayne W. Grigsby, Jr. (left), from Prince George’s County, Md., commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and Col. Emad, commander of 3/1 NP, March 17 at Patrol Base Assassin, Iraq. The group traveled to the patrol base, occupied by Soldiers of Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, to welcome British Army Lt. Gen. John Cooper, deputy commander for Multi-National Forces – Iraq.

Col. Wayne W. Grigsby, Jr., from Prince George’s County, Md., commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, salutes British Army Lt. Gen. John Cooper, deputy commander of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, at Patrol Base Assassin March 17. Cooper visited the base to discuss the security, economic and government situation in Jisr Diyala and surrounding areas.

Richard Hawkins, from Arlington, Va., a team leader in 3rd Brigade Combat Team’s Provincial Reconstruction Team, explains the economic situation in the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment’s area of operation to Brig. Gen. Edward Cardon, Multi-National Division – Center’s deputy commander for support, and British Army Lt. Gen. John Cooper, deputy commander of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, March 17, at Patrol Base Assassin.

British Army Lt. Gen. John Cooper, deputy commander of Multi-National Forces – Iraq, and Capt. Troy Thomas, Litchfield, Minn., commander of Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, listen as the 3rd Infantry Division band plays at Patrol Base Assassin March 17.




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