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Afghanistan is volatile country
By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Ten months is a long time to be stationed in Afghanistan, a country with gentle inhabitants and angry Taliban. James Mandeville knows. Mandeville, a 2001 Chase County High School graduate, is a member of the ACO 2-4 Infantry 4th Brigade Company of the U.S. Army. He is a communications officer, keeping his unit in touch with other companies.
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Soldier with Imperial ties healing from traumatic brain injury
By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Mark Shaylor is glad to be alive. The past 14 months have been very long for him and for wife Melissa, daughter of Cathy and Royce Bernard of Imperial. Shaylor suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), among other wounds, while on patrol with his unit in Iraq. The accident which caused his injuries occurred 21 years to the day that Shaylor had been in the Army.
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Soldier returning to Imperial area from Iraq
By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Troy Brown was busy "outprocessing" Monday, finishing up paperwork after serving the Army National Guard in Iraq for a year. The son of Jim and Vicky Brown of Champion is a sergeant with Delta Company 2nd of the 135th General Support Aviator Battalion out of Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado.
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Three Imperial soldiers return home from Iraq
By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Three familiar faces stepped off the airplane that carried 150 members of the Nebraska Army National Guard's 1074th Transportation Company to North Platte from Iraq last Friday. Eldon Kuntzelman, Justin Westfahl and Trevor Courter had just spent a year in Iraq at al-Taqaddum Air Base, about 60 miles west of Baghdad.
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Travis Vires returns to Iraq for year
By Jan Schultz The Imperial Republican In the ongoing effort to eventually get the Iraqi Army trained to keep its country stable, U.S. soldiers are working, in some areas, one-on-one to teach them what they know. One such U.S. Air Force officer is Major Travis Vires, an Imperial native, who left for Baghdad Nov. 8 and expects to be there for the next year.
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Mary Deyle's nephew killed by IED in Iraq
By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Sgt. Christopher R. Kruse, nephew of Mary Deyle of Imperial, was killed by a land mine near Mukhisa, Iraq Nov. 12. He was with the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regular, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. The 23-year-old, of Emporia, Kan., was riding on the outside of a stryker vehicle with Cpl. Peter W. Schmidt, 30. Four other soldiers were inside the vehicle.
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Tropf ends two-week leave, returns to Iraq
■ Editor's note: This is one in a series of articles concerning area residents serving in the military overseas. By Carolyn Lee The Imperial Republican Shooting trap as a youth was good training for Bobbi Tropf of Champion, currently serving as the only female gunner with the Army National Guard 600 Transport Company of Omaha. She is stationed at Tallil in Iraq until at least May of this year.
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