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Erika E. Helbling ’07, a four-year varsity runner and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps battalion commander, was also recognized with an honorable mention...
...Recently, gunfights and tit-for-tat executions have erupted in west Baghdad between the nationalist Battalion of the 1920 Revolution and al-Qaeda-backed fighters. Last week, an influential nationalist group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, asked Osama bin Laden to rein in al-Qaeda in Iraq's more extreme tactics, such as targeting Iraqi civilians and brutally enforcing Sharia...
...wounded 16 others. On certain streets in Buhriz, one of the worst villages in Diyala, U.S. forces face storms of mortars and shoulder-fired rockets from Sunni insurgents intent on turning it into the next Fallujah or Ramadi. Major Jeremy Siegrist, a cavalry commander working with a Stryker battalion, says more than 20 soldiers from his battalion of 800 men and women have died fighting in the city. "We've had a very rough couple of months," he says...
...Still, the 850 soldiers of UNIFIL's Indian contingent may be just the chaps for the job. At home, they are known as the 15th Punjab Infantry Battalion-the oldest, most decorated and, according to them, the most admired unit in the Indian army. Founded in 1705 by the Mahraja of Patiala, they earned their stripes fighting wherever the British Empire needed them, including the Middle East. During World War I, they fought in Gallipoli, Sinai, Gaza, and Jerusalem, and formed a major part of the British force occupying Iraq during the 1920s. Since India's independence from Britain, they...
...recent visit, the battalion displayed an attention to detail and an esprit de corps quite startling to someone who has spent too much time around Middle Eastern armies. "We hope for the best but prepare for the worst," said Colonel Advitya Madan, the unit's commander, as he served tea with the battalion silver, which also includes tug-of-war trophies from the 1930s. Then he went off to drill the battalion, which was waiting on the parade ground in full dress uniform, in preparation for a medal ceremony to be held several weeks away...