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5-20 Infantry “Sykes’ Regulars” Battle History 03-04
Operation Iraqi Freedom 03-04 After completing their NTC and JRTC certification Exercises, the men of 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry were determined as deployable by the Department of Defense and the US congress. The road to deployment status was long and hard for the unit and took the better part of two years to complete. The…
5 soldiers killed in Black Hawk crash identified
During a routine mission as part of a Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) deployment in Egypt last week, five U.S. soldiers were killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed. The Army has identified the five who were killed: Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp, 31, from Katy, Texas – Vandecamp was an Army doctor, on his first…
My War Journal: My First Taste of War (Chapter 2)
Chapter 2 My First Taste of War It was April 14, 2004, when my perspective on the war on terror drastically changed. Arriving in the country two months after the unit had already deployed, I knew I would encounter social integration issues. At the end of Basic Training I was assigned to 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon,…
