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Troops see families via satellite

Feb-15-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By STEFAN MILKOWSKI, News-Miner

Diana Gabel got to see her husband Tuesday evening for the first time since he left for Iraq in September.

Digitally, that is.

Spouses of the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team got a chance to spend 15 minutes with their loved ones on Valentine's Day through an Internet video connection at Fort Wainwright Army Post.

"I was trying not to cry," Gabel said after seeing her husband, Staff Sgt. Gerald Gabel. She said the voice connection was in-and-out, but it didn't matter that much.

"You don't go really to talk," she said. "You go to look."

In a room of the Terry L. Wilson Battle Command Training Center, an image of Gerald Gabel was projected onto a screen from a desktop computer. Diana Gabel, Caleb, 3, and Bradley, 5 months, were pictured above him. [...]


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