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Weed Fire t-shirts appreciated in Iraq

Jun-22-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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Mount Shasta Herald

Sgt. Travis Johnson, originally from St. Louis, MO. and currently stationed at Ft. Lewis, WA, is deployed to Mosul, Iraq with the Army's 73rd Engineer Company of the 1st Brigade (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 24th Infantry Division.

He is shown here with the Stryker he commands. A Stryker is a light armored fast attack vehicle outfitted with a plow to safely detonate mines and I.E.D. devices, and a protective fence to deflect missiles and RPG's.

Over the last few months t-shirts were gathered from fire departments all over the United States, boxed and shipped to troops at military bases in Iraq through the Hero-to-Hero program. When Sgt. Johnson blindly reached into the box sent to his base in Mosul and pulled out this t-shirt from the Weed Fire Department, he was surprised. [...]


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