By Sgt. Mike Pryor
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Abn. Div. Public Affairs
BAGHDAD — The thick chains attaching the “T-Wall” barrier to the crane shuddered as the slab of heavy concrete was lifted into the air. The crane operator worked his control stick, first swinging the barrier through the air, and then slowly lowering it into place.
As the 14,000 pounds of concrete settled onto the ground with a grinding crunch, the project to secure a neighborhood in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah District behind miles of protective barriers came to an end in darkness of the early morning May 28.
The project, overseen by the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, involved emplacing temporary barriers and checkpoints around a three-mile area of Adhamiyah in order to protect the local populace from attacks by terrorists.
“This was our biggest project to date,” said Lt. Eric Brumfield, of Visalia, Calif., a platoon leader with the 2nd BCT’s 407th Support Battalion, which oversaw the project’s construction. “It was a massive undertaking.”
Almost every night for two months straight, paratroopers from the 407th BSB left their base and convoyed to Adhamiyah, emplacing as many as 70 of the huge barriers each night alongside the main road ringing the neighborhood.
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