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Squad focuses on civil projects, intelligence

Jan-12-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By MARGARET FRIEDENAUER, News-Miner

MOSUL, Iraq--On Wednesday's agenda for Team Tomahawk were a visit to a school in order to assess needed improvements, time to mingle with locals outside a mosque, reimbursement to a woman for four cows killed in crossfire and a moment to check out anti-Iraqi army graffiti.

All the while, team members listened intently for intelligence tidbits.

"It's like killing two birds with one stone a lot of times," Capt. Brian Kaiser said.

Team Tomahawk--so named because it is the brainchild of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team's 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Tomahawks--is a hodgepodge of various non-infantry units that includes a surgeon, a chaplain, civil affairs workers and intelligence soldiers.

It was created in order to get the soldiers focused on a variety of projects and missions out into the community regularly. By combining efforts, Team Tomahawk is able to efficiently coordinate several different areas of civil affairs at once. [...]


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