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Soldier's mom wants town to adopt unit in Iraq

Dec-14-2005 » Filed Under: TF Freedom

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By GINA B. GOOD, Pahrump Valley Times

Jenny Liakopoulos is a woman with a mission - a military mission from God. She wants the town, through the Pahrump Town Board, to adopt the 600 men and women of the 47th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Army Medical Troop from Ft. Lewis, Wash., who are currently stationed in Iraq.

The unit operates at two sites - a 164-bed hospital in Mosul and an 84-bed hospital in Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein, who is currently on trial in Baghdad for crimes against his own people.

Cooks, truck drivers and mechanics from the 47th were deployed along with doctors, nurses and medics at the end of October.

At Tuesday's town board meeting, Liakopoulos will ask the board members to issue a proclamation adopting the 47th as the town's own sons and daughters. If passed, Pahrump will be the first town in Nye County to make such a declaration.

(Editor's note: Today's edition went to press before the conclusion of Tuesday's night meeting. Look in Friday's edition for, as they say, the rest of the story.)

In September, the City of Las Vegas adopted the First Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne.

Liakopoulos' son, Michael Benthin, 30, is in his eighth year of a military career and currently a medic with the 47th in Tikrit. He left his wife and two children - a two-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter - at Ft. Lewis. But it's not only her son and his family Liakopoulos is thinking about these days. [...]


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