Cavalry Troops Making Progress in Diwaniyah With Help of Residents

By Sgt. Robert Yde
2nd Brigade Combat Team,1st Cavalry Division

FORWARD OPERATING BASE ECHO — After several days of continuous combat operations in Diwaniyah, soldiers from Task Force 1-14 Cavalry, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, are now focusing their efforts on locating specific targets and performing clearing operations in different areas of the city while forming working relationships with the local population.

Every day the soldiers are in different neighborhoods searching for weapon caches and talking with the residents about the problems in the area.

“We just picked this up,” Sgt. Michael Gibson, a native of Angles Camp, Calif. said explaining his troop’s new mission. “We were doing continuous combat operations out here when we first got here.”

Gibson and other soldiers with Troop C focused their efforts in and around the city’s market area during a multi-phased mission April 11.

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