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THE BATTALION
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Thursday, March 4, 2004
Army soldiers return
to Central Texas post
KILLEEN, Texas (AP) —
After a year in Iraq, Army sol
diers have returned home to Fort
, where they were greeted
by a television documentary
crew and a cheering crowd of
family and friends.
The last 150 soldiers from the
21st Combat Support Hospital
reservists from the 607th
Battalion in Grand Prairie
arrived at the
Army’s largest
on Tuesday
night.
“It feels great
to be home; I just
wanted to see my
and daugh
ter — that’s the
best part of being
ih the sniil home,” said Sgt.
Richard
Bingham.
Felice Babers
of Dallas eagerly
awaited the
arrival of her hus
band, Sgt.
Ricky Babers, a -
reservist.
“It was hard
It feels great to
be home; I just
wanted to see my
wife and daughter
—thafsthe best
part of being home.
— Sgt. Richard Bingham
U.S. Army
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of wild lie
having him
gone. He was in the reserves and
they made him active duty; we
weren't expecting that,” Felice
said in Wednesday’s edition of
the Killeen Daily Herald. “I just
prayed and hoped for the best for
all of the troops. I’m ecstatic
he’s coming home."
As soldiers entered Starker
Gym, cameras crews filmed the
welcoming ceremony for a spe
cial live documentary by Public
Broadcasting Service. The docu
mentary, “Life and E)eath in the
War Zone," has followed the hos
pitals medical personnel and staff
asthey treated combat injuries.
The 21st Combat Support
Hospital unit deployed in March
2003 to Iraq, where medical
facilities were set up in Balad
and Mosul to care for injured
U.S. military personnel.
"They treated over 3,000
patients, all while receiving rou
tine enemy fire consisting of
mortars and rocket-propelled
grenades, so I feel they did a
great job,” said Lt. Col. Robert
Mitchell, 1st
Medical Brigade
executive officer.
A group of
13th Corps
Support
Command sol
diers also flew
into Robert Gray
Army Airfield,
along with 210
4th Infantry
Division mem
bers aboard
flights that landed
earlier Tuesday,
said Col. Dan
Shanahan, the
division’s rear
detachment
commander.
Other returnees included
about 80 members of the 2nd
Battalion, 20th Field Artillery
Regiment and I 1 soldiers from
the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field
Artillery Regiment, said Lt. Col.
Bill MacDonald, the 4th
Infantry’s public affairs officer.
National Guardsmen assigned
to the division’s Task Force
Ironhorse were also on the flight.
MacDonald said about 64
members of the 299th Engineer
Battalion and 50 members from
the division’s 502nd Adjutant
General flew in earlier Tuesday
along with some members from
the 16th Signal Battalion.
NEWS IN BRIEF
X
Contraceptives
missing from
Houston warehouse
(AP) — A surprise
audit of the city's south side
pharmaceutical warehouse has
discovered that thousands of
packages of birth control medica
tions and other medical supplies
are missing.
Findings of the Sept. 8 audit
»ere released by city officials on
The warehouse, which supplies
the city’s eight health clinics,
stocks items such as birth control
ills and prescription antibiotics.
The supplies are worth
Auditors found discrepancies
among 57 of the 60 items
reviewed. Out of the 57 items,
found shortages in 45,
discovered more inventory
was listed in the records for
the other 12 products.
The largest shortages were
found among oral contraceptives,
8,619 packages unaccount-
ir, and foam contraceptives,
said 5,086 packages
were unaccounted for.
Judge orders
genetic testing
in divorce case
HOUSTON (AP) - A person bom
as a man but now legally a woman
was ordered Tuesday to undergo
genetic testing before moving for
ward with an attempt to void a
marriage with another woman.
Linda Gail Carter, born James
Howard Murphy, wants a union
with Constance D. Gonzales void
ed after the pair were married by a
minister in Las Vegas in October
1998. Carter had her gender legal
ly declared female more than four
months before the wedding, and
has a Texas driver's license that
identifies her as female.
Gonzales, who says she lived in
Houston with Carter until March
2003, filed for divorce, which if
granted would recognize the mar
riage. Carter claims the marriage
should not be recognized
because Texas does not recog
nize same-sex unions.
A Texas appeals panel ruled in
1999 that a person’s sex is deter
mined by chromosomes.
State District Judge Lisa Ann
Millard gave Carter until March 22
to undergo chromosomal.
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