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Sir,

I attached a picture I had on my computer from way back when. I was looking through my photos and remembered my 15 seconds of fame in the Army. This was taken in Kosovo when SMA Preston was giving briefings about the Army transformation and new training. He asked the crowd of about 500 soldiers if anyone could recite the Soldier's Creed, no one said a word. I had just gotten out of Ft. Sill a few months prior, went through the new OSUT training, knew the Creed like the back of my hand, but I was not about to make an ass of myself by messing up infront of the group, as they did not give me speech classes during Artillery school. Later, I had met him and he asked how long I had been in the Army for. He somehow knew my Drill SGT from when he was working under General Byrnes and TRADOC with our cycle. He was kinda dissapointed because he was shot down while asking the audience for a response. As a result, I can say I'm one of few soldiers that had pushed for the SMA. And that's probaby the best story I have from my time deployed to the Balkans.

CDT Hickling

Cleveland Clinic names president for Euclid Hospital

Posted by Mary Vanac June 04, 2007 15:02PM
Categories: Breaking News

     The Cleveland Clinic has named Robert Stall as president of Euclid Hospital, the orthopedic and rehabilitation center. Stall, who has served the Clinic for nearly 24 years, will start his new job on June 15.
      
     He replaces Lauren Rock, who left recently to become president and chief executive of Cleveland senior care center Montefiore. Read Euclid Hospital's release here.

     Most recently, Stall was division administrator for the Cleveland Clinic Regional Medical Practice, a startup that has grown into a 440-physician, multi-speciality regional practice with 14 locations in Northeast Ohio and one in Toronto.

     The Lakewood resident also is a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserve.

*BG Robert Stall was commissioned by the John Carroll ROTC program and received his undergraduate degree in Marketing from John Carroll University*

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18 Februrary 2007

All,
       Today marked the offical TOA (Transfer of Authority) between us and the 1st
Brigade, 1st Armor Division. Fancy term for them leaving and us taking
over. Nevertheless, this event received a somewhat high level of visibilty
due to the region we are in (Anbar Province, Ar Ramadi). A few generals and
Geraldo Rivera showed up. Who knows, our little ceremony may even make FOX
news.

We have a pretty influencial Sheikh here by the name of Sittar. Sittar has
done a great number of things for the Province...create a provinsial police
and single-handedly found 1/4 of the people needed for the Iraqi Army to
meet their goals. He was probably the real reason Geraldo showed up.

As of today, we have official taken over here in Ar RAmadi. We have been
conducting operations now for about three weeks, but it's official now.

Ramadi is much different from the last time I was over here in the sense
that this place sucks. It's muddier then hell here and with this place
being more of an actual desert then where I was last time, a little rain
goes a long way in making mud.

Other then the mud, this place still sucks, but we're making the best out of
it. There are soldiers within the ranks of the 1st Brigade here that have it
much worse. Some bad places over here. Ramadi is a completely Sunni city.
Sunni's are the minority, but don't tell them that. It's a rather strange
place indeed.

Hope all is well back home. Take care and we'll talk to you later on down
the road.

V/R
CPT Linden St. Clair
A/S1
1st Brigade Combat Team
3d Infantry Divisio

BG(P) Carter Hamm is a 1976 graduate of John Carroll University's ROTC Program

29 June 2006

Fort Riley, Kan (AP) -- The Army has named Brig. Gen. Carter F. Ham, who up to last year served at Fort Lewis as commander of Task Force Olympia, to be commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division, which is moving its headquarters back to Fort Riley from Germany on Aug. 1.

The appointmen of Ham, currently assigned to the Pentagon, was announced Wednesday, June 21. He will succeed Mam. Gen. Kenneth W. Hunzeker, who will bring the unit back to Kansas after 11 years in Germany. The division flag of the "Big Red One" was at Fort Riley for more than 40 years before moving overseas in 1995.

Ham has been at the Pentagon since March 2005 as deputy director of regional operations.

See the official press release.

See Gen. Ham's Biography.

See photos from Gen. Ham's career.

WWII soldiers were first to wear U.S. flag insignia

By Fred L. Borch and Robert F. Dorr
Special to the Times, October 30, 2006
Wearing the U.S. flag on the utility uniform — now mandatory for soldiers — began in World War II. While the intent today is to demonstrate a commitment to win our nation’s wars, World War II soldiers wore the flag for identification.
“American soldiers participating in the invasion of North Africa may have been the first to wear the flag,” said retired Lt. Col. William Emerson, an expert on uniforms and insignia. “We weren’t sure how French defenders, whose loyalty was unknown, would act when we landed on their soil.”
Photos from French Morocco in 1943 show 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers wearing a U.S. flag sewn to the upper left sleeve. The flag was worn during the Sicily airdrop. It measured 3 inches by 5 inches. The 48 stars in the field of blue faced the viewer’s left.
During the D-Day assaults June 6, 1944, paratroopers wore the U.S. flag as an armband. The rationale was that French civilians, including members of the Resistance, were unfamiliar with American uniforms. The flag identified the invaders as friendly.
There was no official guidance on how the flag should be worn. Where 82nd Division paratroopers in North Africa wore the flag on their left sleeves, later wartime photographs show paratroopers wearing a slip-on American flag armband on their right sleeves.
As this flag armband had its blue star field to the viewer’s left, this meant that the flag was facing to the rear — or trailing, a position claimed by some to be to be disrespectful.
In the postwar era, wear of the U.S. flag on the uniform ceased. There is no evidence that soldiers wore U.S. flags during the Korean or Vietnam conflicts.
In the late 1970s or early 1980s, soldiers of 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry, in Vicenza, Italy, wore a small U.S. flag on the left upper sleeve of their uniforms. It measured 2 by 3 inches and had the blue star field to the viewer’s left. It identified the soldiers as Americans when the unit operated alongside NATO troops.
Proper display of the flag requires that the blue field of 50 stars should always occupy the position of honor. This position is to the viewer’s upper left whether the flag is displayed horizontally or vertically. When the flag is moving, the position of honor is always to the front.
A flag worn on the left shoulder will have the blue star field to the front. On the right shoulder, the flag must be “reversed” if it is to keep the blue star field in the position of honor. This explains why the flag now worn on the right upper sleeve appears to some to be reversed, so that it will always face to the front.
On Feb. 11, 2004, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker approved a policy of all soldiers, whether deployed or not, wearing the flag on the right upper sleeve of the utility uniform.
According to Sgt. Maj. Walter Morales, then uniform policy chief for the deputy chief of staff, personnel, wearing the flag reflected “our commitment to fight the war on terror for the foreseeable future.”
All soldiers were required to wear the flag as of Oct. 1, 2005. A subdued version of the U.S. flag exists for the Army Combat Uniform.
Fred L. Borch retired from the Army after 25 years. He is the regimental historian for the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. His e-mail address is borchfj@aol.com. Robert F. Dorr, an Air Force veteran, lives in Oakton, Va. He is the author of several books and can be reached at robert.f.dorr@cox.net.

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