January 22, 2007

School Supplies Bring Smiles To Children


CAMP SLAYER – An infantry unit from the Kentucky Army National Guard spent the morning of Jan. 14 not patrolling the streets of Baghdad like they usually do, but delivering supplies to local school children.

Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Regiment, loaded up an up-armored Light Medium Tactical Vehicle with wooden crates full of backpacks, pencils, pens, rulers and notepads. Then they headed out to the Al Hamdaniyah School with an entourage of Humvees for security.

The troops arrived a little early for school, but it didn’t take long for the children to start coming in from all directions to greet the Soldiers.
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(Photo: Sgt. 1st Class Bill Bowen, Company C, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Brigade, hands-out candy and gum to children sitting outside the Al Hamdaniyah School in western Baghdad. Bowen, a native of Stanton, Ky., and members of Company C dropped off school supplies and backpacks for the 310 students attending the school. Photo by Army Staff Sgt. Mary Rose 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

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