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U.S. Army Master Sgt. Matthew Williams assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), stands outside of a local market place in Eastern Afghanistan, December 2007. (Photo Credit: Courtesy of Master Sgt. Matthew Williams)
By Devon L. Suits, Army News Service | republished with permission of DOD
WASHINGTON -- Then-Sgt.1st Class Matthew Williams was anticipating a critical phone call, as he waited patiently inside his pickup truck in front of his home near Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
A month prior, Williams received a series of odd messages from the Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, or G-1. At first, the Special Forces team sergeant brushed it off, thinking it was some form of administrative error.
The lieutenant colonel on the line assured that her inquiry was no mistake, Williams said.
Read more: Longest Day: Bringing the team home from Shok Valley
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380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen fire from behind a barrier during a simunition proficiency firing course. Al Dhafra hosted the first course of this kind in the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility to align with the line of effort to increase lethality, as well as allowing Defenders to maintain proficiency with their weapon.
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jocelyn A. Ford
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Jones, with the 139th Airlift Wing, Missouri Air National Guard, marshals in a C-130H Hercules aircraft during Saber Junction 19 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sep. 17, 2019. SJ19 is an exercise involving 16 allies and partner nations at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas, Sept. 3-30. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Patrick Evenson)
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We currently have 160 Soldiers here in Kosovo for the KFOR mission. We truly appreciate your support with Troops. We have a few Soldiers that haven't received anything from family and we would love to give them a little something from someone other than their fellow comrades.
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Sergeant Megan Hurley and Military Working Dog Bill from the 510th Military Police Detachment (MWD), 716th Military Police Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, prepare to fast rope out of a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter during pre-deployment training. From providing unique patrol, explosives and narcotic detection capabilities through law enforcement on Fort Campbell, Kentucky to deploying into combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the 510th MP DET is staying busy. (U.S. Army photo by: 1st Lt. M. Austin Giles, 510th Military Police Detachment (MWD), 716th Military Police Battalion) (Photo Credit: Courtesy)
FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky - The 510th Military Police Detachment, 716th Military Police Battalion, provides continuous service to the community and the nation for training and fielding Military Working Dogs (MWDs).
From providing unique patrol, explosives and narcotic detection capabilities through law enforcement on Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to deploying into combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the 510th MP Det. is staying busy.
Currently, four MWD teams are deployed worldwide in support of military operations. At the end of July, three more MWD teams will begin nine month deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt providing unique explosive detection capabilities to forward units. Sgt. Megan Hurley and MWD Bill, Spc. Bradley Caravello and MWD Thor, as well as Pvt. 1st Class Jacob Pickering and MWD Barbi are continuing to train hard prior to pushing out for deployment.
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U.S. July 15, 2019 - Thanks to the good will of Americans across our great nation, Support Our Troops® is privileged to be delivering 1,584 pairs of free boot insoles to servicemembers of the Illinois National Guard this week. The logistics of today’s military is performed largely by the National Guard, and Guard units routinely deploy in rotations overseas for about six months at a time as part of overseas U.S. military operations. This delivery of $17,634 worth of free morale and well-being gifts from Americans was gathered through a promotion in which Bayer Healthcare presented a Dr. Scholl’s buy-one give-one opportunity in every Walmart across the country. And boy did folks respond! Isn’t the American Way a great way to live?