NEWS - May 8,  2008


Operation Hammer Bonzai III aims to rid Taji of weapons caches

By Sgt. Brad Willeford
1st Bn., 27th Inf. Regt., 2nd SBCT, 25th Inf. Div., MND-B

 

Safer Iraq

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Spc. Jose Nunez, a Chicago native, pulls security during Operation Hammer Bonzai III in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, May 1. The operations focused on ridding the area of weapons and improvised-explosive devices. Nunez serve as an infantryman with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, and works to help build a safer Iraq for the future.


 

On a little walk

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, stroll through a field of wheat on a search for weapons caches as part of Operation Hammer Bonzai III in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, May 1.

In the Heat

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Staff Sgt. Michael Clark, a Doylestown, Wis., native, takes a knee after digging up several boxes of buried munitions during Operation Hammer Bonzai III in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, May 1. The mission focused on ridding the area of weapons and improvised-explosive devices. Clark serves as an infantry squad leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad.
 

Searching for Weapons

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Spc. Jose Nunez, a Chicago native, pulls security for his fellow soldiers during Operation Hammer Bonzai III in the Taji Qada, northwest of Baghdad, May 1. The operation focused on ridding the area of terrorist weapons and improvised-explosive devices. Nunez serves as an infantryman with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment "Wolfhounds," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad.
 

 

 

USARPAC MISSION

USARPAC conducts operations to assure, enhance, sustain, and influence military relationships that build partner defense capacity; prepare the force for unified land operations; respond to threats; sustain and protect the force; to shape and posture for a stable and secure U.S. Pacific Command area of responsibility.

COMMANDING GENERAL


Lieutenant General Francis J. Wiercinski Commanding General"We will remain dedicated that your Army in the Pacific is prepared with the right training, the right equipment and the preservation of the nation's greatest resource -- our sons and daughters and their families."

Lieutenant General
Francis J. Wiercinski

Click to view the USARPAC Command Video