Crazyhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment
Combat Outpost Crazyhorse Troop
Sharqat, Iraq
The goal for
the Crazyhorse leadership is to start pushing the Iraqis out there into the
mix, and ensure they are conducting patrols, and enforcing humanitarian rights
to the citizens of the local populace.
This includes those people that have been targeted and capture
d by the
Iraqi Police and Army.
The Platoons
are working long hours and embedding with the Iraqi Police Forces to help them
accomplish their goals as well as ours.
In their stay with the Iraqi Police, the Platoon Leaders and Platoon
Sergeants have a chance to conduct leader’s engagements the local leadership,
mainly the Sheiks and City Council Members who are the eyes, ears and voice of
their tribes and areas of influence. The
Platoon Sergeants and Platoon Leaders help these influential leaders with
setting goals and ideas of where they would like their communities to be in the
next month, or even over the course of the next year.
Part of the
Counterinsurgency battle is also winning the hearts and minds of not only the
older, current generation of Iraqis, but also the next generation of Iraqis who
are now only small children looking for that Soccer ball to play with or toys
from the Crazyhorse Troopers that they see on a daily basis. Helping these communities out with creating
jobs and conducting infrastructure repairs, as well as caring for their safety,
can pay greater dividends toward a positive outlook of our soldiers.
As we move
through the upcoming weeks, our task of supporting the Iraqi Army and assisting
the Iraqi Police will not chang
e; the only thing that will be added to our
plate is the redeployment tasks. We can
see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we are not quite there yet. Many of the supporting sections in the
Crazyhorse Operations center will be hard at work over the next two
months. My intelligence cell will be
working at combining the local leadership slides with my assessment of the
Iraqi Security Forces, then combining that with our current target lineup. This will be the cheat sheet for the incoming
unit who will be poised to replace us by the start of next year. The Executive Officer is going to be eyeball
deep in redeployment tasks and assisting the Unit Movement Officer with the
planning for moving equipment from JSS Sharqat to FOB Q-West. Each of the Platoons will have their
individual portions of redeployment to deal with in the next few weeks. The First Sergeant has put systems in place
for tracing through the NCO Support Channels and empowering the Non-Commissioned
Officers of the Troop to step up or get out.
The command group for the Troop has a great working relationship, and
only continues to get stronger as time progresses.
The Troopers will be busy, and continue to stay motivated and
vigilant. They all know that we are near
the end, but that we aren’t there yet. I
couldn’t be prouder of the Troops under my command, and the work they have
accomplished over the past year in the Sal Ad Din Province. They hold their heads up high in pride for
their unit and those friends to their left and right that they call their
fellow brother in arms. As we draw ever
closer to closing our book in Iraq and transferring our palace at the one and
only JSS Sharqat, I only ask that you continue to support your loved ones that are
deployed and fighting to make the world a safer place for all. Until next month…
Ricky Myers
Captain, U.S. Army
Commanding
Crazyhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment
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