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Commanders Note
By: CPT Ryan Strong
Greeting again to all Friends and additional work which really helps the Family of the Hollywood Team. Id love to time go by. Your Soldiers continue to report to you that things have cooled off maximize the Get Huger Program, and over here, but its about 120 degrees today consistently display a work ethic unand there seems to be no end in sight to the matched by many. enduring heat! The good news is that anOperationally, the boys continue other month to perform has come and at an excepgone, which tional level. puts your loved ones With the that much pending closer to removal of coming troops from home. I the country heard the of Iraq, we picnic was a huge success are all lookand I want to ing forward thank the to playing ladies of the our role FRG yet during this again for all From Left to Right: CPT OBrien, 1LT Putnam, CPT Strong, historic that they do. LTC Kinsman, CSM Hart, 1SG Paulin , 1LT Helle , 1LT time in our We all sleep a Moreno little bit better militarys knowing that our families are being looked history. You are all in my thoughts and after while we are gone. prayers, and I hope you enjoy this Things are going well for the Solmonths edition of the Hollywood Times! diers this month as weve picked up some
HOLLYWOOD
From Left to Right: Looking down the hallways of Hollywood; CPT Strong tossing the pigskin.
Operations
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Maintenance
Hello all you 391 maintenance supporters. Its time again for your mind to be blown away due to our awesomeness. However, we are going to switch gears a little bit for this news letter. Rather than tell you how amazing we are, we are going to let you make that decision for yourself. Heres the deal, we are going to post some facts about maintenance. Some of these facts will be fictional. Some of them may not be. The responsibility of deciding whats true or whats false is completely up to you. So lets begin.
1. SGT Sandovals first name is Juan. 2. PFC Caleb Gordon is pregnant with a baby panda. 3. SPC Christopher Ingarra is sponsored by Just for Men. 4. SPC Brandon Nafsinger thinks Jeeps can float. 5. PFC Elias Salazar swallowed a mega phone, thus causing volume control issues. 6. PFC Jared Kuhlman played Above: SGT Kelly and SGT Sandoval; Right: crazy eyes in Mr. Deeds. PV2 Santos, SPC Bieber, and PFC Salazar 7. SPC Robert Bieber: the oraworking hard to ensure the vehicle is ready for cle says, your blood will be mission. shed before my blood. 8. PV2 Joseph Santos beat up chuck Norris. Or did he? still a bit short handed this last month, but SPC Christopher In9. SPC Kyle Menck is a World Champion Volleyball player. garra and PFC Elias Salazar are now back from Speicher, along 10.SGT Ted Kelly proposed to SPC Zoeller before leave. with the return of SFC Harper from R&R. SPC Ethan Zoeller 11.SPC Ethan Zoeller said yes. And they are going to adopt and PFC Caleb Gordon just left for their leave. We are done with Gordons baby panda. all services for the month and still have a high number for mis12.SPC Brandon Nafsinger cried when SPC Zoeller went on sion capable vehicles. Well thats what is new in the world of leave. maintenance. Hope you enjoyed.
First Platoon
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Second Platoon
Greetings to all the families and friends of the Soldiers of Second Platoon. With the end of July in sight, Soldiers begin to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Loved ones at home should take a pointer from your Soldiers and take pride in the fact that you havent lost your mind in the time weve been gone, so these next few months should be no problem at all. This month has been a month of new beginnings for Second Platoon. For starters, we had the opportunity to start working with our new support element, the 3/82 Field Artillery. They are a great bunch of guys who will be looking out for us as much as well be looking out for them. The Platoon also began a new mission inside the wire. Knowing how every Soldier is concerned about their beach body, we started a program to help our Soldiers achieve the physical fitness level theyve always wanted. Sessions, ranging from Operation Party Boy to Operation Rainbow Runners and Operation Beached Whale are targeting problem areas that Soldiers find need addressed. Left: SGT Dillon The Platoon would like to congratulate the headquarters conglomawaits the start of erate on their victory in the One Day, Single Elimination All (sorta) Balad the NCO Induction Volleyball Championship. Second Platoon was unable to attend due to Ceremony Above: scheduling issues. Recently there was a much larger competition held over SFC Haney a period of three days. With a double elimination policy, the game play was far more competitive. With net call the phrase of the day and a fiercely competitive Army rival, Seconds performance was admirable, but fell just shy. We will return again victorious as we always do. Now we would like to take a moment to recognize the several Soldiers from our platoon who were awarded the Combat Action Badge. There are thousands of Soldiers in the Army, serving in many different jobs, but this award is not for everyone. No matter what the action might have been, large or small, these events are what forge a steadier hand, a sharper eye, a second thought to see the objective from a different angle. Theyve been given the chance to see that enemy and combat it, and emerged victorious, so for that we honor them. As always we thank our loved ones for their support through this hard time, it is our honor to call you family. In the coming months we will continue to earn your pride and show the rest of the military the stuff that Idaho boys are made of. With any hope we will leave this country a fair amount safer than when we came here. And with your help, well come home a bit more mature and wiserwell, maybe just wiser.
Third Platoon
Above: 1LT Moreno receives a Task Force Sapper Eagle coin. Right: SPC Weaver, SGT Watanabe, SPC Hale, and SSG Jensen
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HOLLYWOOD
Heres a shout out to my family, Love ya! To my sis, stay away from Army guys. To Silver Andrews Hi. Derp. Lloyd Ellis
To all my family and friends, I love you and miss you. I can't wait to come home and see you all. I love you Shirley, God bless. SGT Erik Burger
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Greetings to my Grandmother and other loved ones from this sunny paradise. I hope your summer is going well, and that the Boise weather beats Iraq's. Love you all! Arrividerci. PV2 Tyler Polidori
I would like to make a shout-out to all my family, friends and the entire Declo community. I appreciate all the love and support I have received from back at home. If anyone can figure out how to save a maple bar from the Fair for me, it would be much appreciated. I love you all and look forward to coming home. SPC Thomas Koyle
Thank you to all the families back home. We all appreciate you support. We will see you soon. Jake Barrow
Mom and Dad, now you can see I still have all my fingers and toes. I love you. Gregory Watts
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Awards
The Combat Action Badge (CAB) was approved for wear on 2 May 2005.
Congratulations to the following Soldiers for receiving the Combat Action Badge: PFC Caleb Gordan PFC Jon Ruthven PFC Jon Ruthven SGT Erik Burger SPC Thomas Koyle CPL Michael Loogman SPC Kain Thompson SPC Jake Barrow SPC Jeremy Satterwhite SPC Jesse Fusselman PFC Jacob Lauderdale PV2 Tyler Polidori SPC Michael Tomkins PV2 Tyler Polidori
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Promotions
Congratulations to the following Soldier on his Promotion: CPL Peter Andrews PFC Adam Hopkins
Congratulations to the following Officer on his Promotion: PFC Adam Hopkins CPT Casey OBrien
Sports
VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!!! Congratulations to the following Soldiers for their Gold Medal Performance: CPT Strong 1LT Helle SSG Hahn SPC Menck 1SG Paulin SFC Schwartz SGT Volle
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