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Uzbashi School Flood Control Project
C
J8 is working to stop flooding in local schools. Members of the CJ8 recently took a pivotal role in the Uzbashi School
Flood Control Project. A local school outside of Bagram Airfield has been experiencing flooding each year during the
rainy season which typically runs from October-April each year.
October-
The community has asked the U.S. Army to build a drainage system to keep the flood waters out of the school and the local
village in order to save water to be used for agriculture. The project will also prevent the main road into the village from being
being
washed out each year during the rainy season here in Afghanistan. Working closely with CJ7 and CJ9, members of the CJ8
have helped to move this Commanders’ Emergency Relief Project from concept to the execution phases. This has involved
coordination with local Afghan government officials and multiple U.S. Army agencies.
After the coordination with Afghan Rural Rehabilitation and Restoration, Ministry of Defense, District Governor, and the Uzbashi Mayor, the Uzbashi School Flood Control Project is scheduled to begin by the end of May and be complete by the end of
September before the rainy season starts again.
The CJ Surgeon section pose for
a photo with the 10th Mountain
Division Flag in front of an iconic
piece of the World Trade Center
on Bagram Airfield.
CPT Stoner, a former member of the
CJ4 left recently to take command in
the 1st Brigrade Combat Team. Good
luck from all of us from CJ4!
CW3 Wade Froehlich was promoted to
CW4 by LTC Helwig
Holocaust Days of Remembrance
Intelligence Support Company (HHBN) and the CJTF-10 Equal
Opportunity Office hosted the Holocaust Days of Remembrance
Special Observance on 28 April. The guest speaker was Chaplain (CPT) Heather Borshof of the 330th Joint Control Battalion.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution
and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims-six million were murdered; Roma (Gypsies), people with
disabilities, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reason. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war,
and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and
death under Nazi Germany.
The 2014 Days of
Remembrance
theme, Confronting
the Holocaust: American
Responses,
marks the anniversaries of two seminal
events in Holocaust
history that raise
questions about the
responses of the
United States to the
widespread persecution and mass
murder of the Jews
of Europe. What
can we learn today
from
American
action and inaction
in the face of the
refugee crisis in
the spring of 1939
and the deportation
of Hungarian Jews
five years later? What are the warning signs we should look for
to help prevent future genocides? What is our responsibility as a
nation or as individuals when confronted with such crimes?
As we reflect on these events, we remember all whose lives
were lost or forever altered by the Holocaust. We are challenged to think about what might motivate us to respond to
warning signs of genocide today.
History teaches us that genocide
can be prevented if enough people
care enough to act. Our choices in
response to hatred truly do
matter, and together we can help
fulfill the promise of "Never Again."