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Bakersfield gun belts, riot helmets headed for Iraq

Sep-26-2005 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By JAMES BURGER, Bakersfield Californian

The Bakersfield Police Department was poised to toss a pile of old equipment in the dumpster.

Then training officer Jim Moore had an interesting idea.

Why not send it to Iraq?

The gun belts, baby-blue riot helmets and leather radio holders are out of date for Bakersfield police.

But they’d work just fine for fledgling police departments in Iraq.

So Moore called up a buddy.

Moore went to South High with Major Joe Gann of the Stryker Brigade out of Fort Lewis, Washington.

Gann has contacts in Mosul, Iraq.

Together they crafted a deal to get the equipment from Bakersfield to the law enforcement forces near Mosul. [...]


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