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Feb- 3-2006 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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By Christopher Loh, Watertown Tab & Press

Sgt. Robert Connors remembers two friends lost in battle:
Staff Sgt. Donald D. Griffith of Iowa, killed in action March 11, 2005
Specialist Clinton "Big Country" Gertson, killed in action Feb. 19, 2005.
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Brigade details
Sgt. Robert Connors belonged to the First Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Second Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment.

The brigade faced:
- 3,056 enemy attacks

- 1,335 improvised explosive devices

- 84 suicide vehicle-borne explosive devices

- 1,513 direct-fire attacks
The brigade helped to:

- Detain 3,050 enemies, including 179 high-level terrorist leaders and al-Qaida commander Abu Talha and five successors, the most of any brigade

- Medically screen more than 2,000 Iraqi children

- Produce 415 projects dedicated to building a nation totaling $72.5 million, including schools, hospitals, health clinics, bridges, roads, and water and sewer systems.

Hometown kid serves country in Iraq
Flying to Iraq in a C-130 from Kuwait, Sergeant Bobby Connors said the ride was the quietest plane ride he had ever been on. That changed, however, when he landed at the Forward Observation Base.
"When you get there, you hear explosions," Connors said, explaining that to leave the FOB it was mandatory that there be a three-car convoy.
But after a year in war-torn Iraq, Bobby Connors of Bradford Street is home, having served nearly eight months in Tall'Afar, two months in Mosul and another two in Rawah.
Connors, a sergeant in a Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is a Watertown native and Catholic Memorial graduate. [...]


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