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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 25 Aug 2009 [PDF]
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• 8th Theater Sustainment Command employs capabilities of USARJ Command Center Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- Maj. Erik Jablonski spent a year and a half in Kirkush, Iraq, near the Iranian border on a Military Transition Team. Living and working conditions were far from ideal for him and his Soldiers. He has one word to describe working in his forward tactical operations center there - crowded
• Reduction in force means reduction in ammo Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- The 23rd Ordnance Company out of Grafenwoehr, Germany, continues to assist with the withdrawal of Class V ammunition at Joint Base Balad, as MNC-I prepares to make reductions for the responsible drawdown of personnel and equipment in Iraq
• 377th Theater Sustainment Command commander visits JBB Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- Maj. Gen. Luis R. Visot, commanding general of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command out of New Orleans, toured the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) logistic facilities and talked to leaders and Soldiers Aug. 20 at Joint Base Balad
• Army, Air Force Save $50 million for Taxpayers Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- As most U.S. forces in Iraq prepare for the largest strategic reposturing of forces in 40 years, Task Force 586 has already started the process
• Casualty liaison team to leave Ibn Sina Hospital Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- Six Soldiers with second platoon, 623rd Casualty Liaison Team, 10th Sustainment Brigade, at the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Ibn Sina Hospital here are scheduled to move with the 10th CSH to Sather Air Base, Iraq, in September after the U.S. gives control of Ibn Sina to the Iraqi government
• USS Thach Helps Protect Iraqi Infrastructure in North Arabian Gulf Navy NewsStand 25 Aug 2009 -- The guided-missile frigate USS Thach (FFG 43) is providing a vital security presence in the North Arabian Gulf, helping to protect Iraq's critical infrastructure since arriving on station mid-July.
• ACB maintainers keep Apaches in air Army News 25 Aug 2009 -- AH-64D Apache attack helicopter pilots are usually the ones that get all the glory in an attack aviation unit
• Al Asad Air Base tests mass casualty response USMC News 25 Aug 2009 -- Marines wearing torn, discarded Army camouflage uniforms helped each other apply imitation blood and severed limbs as they were briefed on a scenario they were expected to bring to life

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• Iraqi PM, Shi'ite Bloc Prepare To Face Off In Parliamentary Elections RFE/RL 25 Aug 2009 -- The United States has invested a lot in supporting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and now he may face his greatest political test

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Al-Qaida Claims Responsibility for Baghdad Blasts VOA 25 Aug 2009 -- Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for two truck bombs that hit government ministries in Baghdad last week, killing more than 100 people and wounding 500 others.