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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 Feb 2010 [PDF]
• Kirkuk Airmen train Iraqi medics AFNS 24 Feb 2010 -- Members of the 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron here are helping train Iraqi medics at the K-1 Iraqi medical clinic on basic emergency procedures.
• Expeditionary Strike Group 5 Participates in Multinational Maritime Defense Exercise Navy NewsStand 24 Feb 2010 -- USS Cleveland (LPD 7) participated in a joint, combined maritime defense exercise Feb. 16, with Commander, Task Force Iraqi Maritime (CTF IM), a coalition-led task force responsible for providing maritime security, infrastructure protection, and training to the Iraqi Navy.
• U.S., Iraqi forces secure election sites Army News 24 Feb 2010 -- Soldiers of the 69th Armor Regiment and Iraqi Security Forces in Babil Province have joined forces to ensure the safety of Iraqi citizens during the upcoming March 7 national elections, only the second such elections since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
• Signal Soldiers work with Iraqi counterparts Army News 24 Feb 2010 -- Addressing the Iraqi Army communications troops gathered before him, the instructor hammered home how key their role is to operations.
• U.S.-Iraqi partnership halts smuggling across Syrian border Army News 24 Feb 2010 -- Since U.S. advise-and-assist forces began partnering with Iraqi border patrols along the Syrian border in mid-November 2009, the instances of smugglers circumventing port-of-entry stations have all but ceased, according to several sources within the Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement.

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• Establishment of standardized Iraqi NCOES met with challenges, successes Army News 24 Feb 2010 -- Although it seems unrealistic for an Army to be comprised of Soldiers who were unable to read, it was one problem facing the Iraq Ground Forces Command and the Iraq Training and Advisory Mission-Army as they attempted to develop and implement a structured noncommissioned officer education system for Iraq's soldiers.
• Iraqi border police conduct weapons classes Army News 24 Feb 2010 -- In Maysan Province, more than 80 kilometers from the nearest major city, a group of brave Iraqi border guards stand on Iraq's eastern frontier, their every move observed by Iranian sentries a few hundred meters away.

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