JRD-E, JRD-S conduct merger ceremony
Story and photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Samantha Parks
4th Public Affairs Detachment
J
oint Regional Detachment-East and Joint Regional
Detachment-South held a merger and restructure
ceremony near Camp Prizren Jan. 13.
“Today is a significant day in the history of JRDSouth,” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Summerlin,
a platoon sergeant with JRD-E from Richland, Miss.
“From today the [detachments] will become one, merging
their area of responsibility and all their liaison monitoring
teams.”
With the merger, JRD-E will cease to exist and the combined
area will be known as JRD-S.
Joint Regional Detachment-East was created in April 2004
with an operational area covering 12 municipalities and
five liaison monitoring teams.
U.S. Army Maj. Johnathan Hartsock, commander of
JRD-E and a native of Vinton, Va., thanked Italian Maj.