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Ever get tired of seeing pictures of soldiers and not
knowing who they are, where they come from, or what they do? For a whole month I approached soliders and asked them 5
questions, took their pictures, and posted them on the website. Everyone was fair game and I got a lot of new faces
on the site! I hope that you came across your soldier!
Name: Sergeant Allison Foreman
Hometown: Lafayette,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Customer Service Rep.
Message Home: Hello to my mom, dad, my fiancé Scott,
& my friends!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: We went to a CPX in Ft.
Stewart, Georgia. We
were at a restaurant one night and the next thing you know Sergeant Huval, Specialist Malbrough, & I were play fighting
on the floor!
Name: Sergeant Marcus Zebbs
Hometown: Manfield, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to everyone!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Whenever it flooded by the supply
tent and Command Seregant Major Stuckey & the supply guys were wrestling!
Name: Staff Sergeant Bobby Alleman
Hometown: Rayne, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National
Guard
Message Home: Hello to my lovely wife Elizabeth
& my son Joseph!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Watching SSG Blanchard stressing out all the time. He starts to stutter really bad!
Name: Sergeant First Class Danny Rachal
Hometown: Alexandira, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Senior Instructor NCO
Academy
Message Home: Hello to my mom & my dad!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Working the day shift with Sergeant Zach Huval. We used to have to go the port-o-let at the same time. We had
converstions in them, we grunted, and it was so funny! Keep in mind that we were in seperate stalls!
Name: Staff Sergeant Racheal Chapman
Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Bartender / Student
Message Home: Hello to my grandmother and my
sisters!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
A 2 Star General stopped me for speeding. I had just put a big wad of dip in my mouth and I got out of the vehicle to
stand at attention for him. He asked me how fast I was going and I couldn't even answer him before I had to take a spit!
After I spit, he continued to chew me out. It was a little embarrassing!
Name: Sergeant First Class Alex Vige
Hometown: Eunice (Pa-Ta-Sa), Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National
Guard
Message Home: Hello to my wife Jessica, my
daughters Jodi & Jennifer, and my granddaughter Bailey!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Wearing my costume for the Mardi Gras parade!
Name: Master Sergeant Quinn Richard
Hometown: Prairieville,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Carpenter
Message
Home: Hello to my wife Susie & my nephew Colton!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When I
stole & hot wired one of the bong trucks and named it the Bongo Bubba! I
actually stole it and then got permission afterwards to drive it!
Name: Sergeant Amanda Holmes
Hometown: Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: College Student
Message Home: Hello to Sergeant Walters!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
In Ft. Hood, Texas I had a really bad reaction to an anthrax vaccine shot. My face turned white like Michael Jackson's!
Name: Specialist Eugene Dolan
Hometown: Albertson, New York
Civilian Occupation: Student
Message Home: Hello to my mom, the Hartmann family, &
Kathleen
Fondest Memory From Deployment: We were doing a sewer,
water, & garbage assessment. I parked in the middle of the sewage and one
guy got out and stepped in this pile of brown stuff that he thought was mud – well, turns out that it wasn’t mud!
Name: Staff Sergeant Benjamin Guillory
Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Security Consultant
Message Home: Hello to my kids Colin & Reagan!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Playing fetch with an
Iraqi dog!
Name: Major Gregory Joubert
Hometown: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: State Trooper
Message Home: Hello to Cory & Renee!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: The Mardi Gras parade
in Iraq!
Name: Staff Sergeant Shaun Clark
Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National Guard - Supply
Message Home: Hello to my wife Annie!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Being here for the Mardi
Gras parade!
Name: Specialist Selina Ray
Hometown: Broussard, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Student
Message Home: Hello to my family!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When I got put into the
command section and didn’t have to hear Sergeant First Class Savoy’s
voice every day in the supply section.
Name: Staff Sergeant David Smith
Hometown: Bradford, Maine
Civilian Occupation: Civil Service Technician
Message Home: Hello to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Giving 40-50 tractors
to the Iraqi people!
Name: Specialist Laurence Murphy
Hometown: Metal Fabricator
Civilian
Occupation: Sidney, Maine
Message Home: Hello to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Meeting the Iraqi people,
some friendly and some not.
Name: Staff Sergeant Scott Andrus
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Civilian
Occupation: Medical Sales
Message
Home: Hello to my wife and my dog!
Fondest
Memory From Deployment: For Christmas we rode around with Santa hats
on and took pictures on all the vehicles that we could find!
Name: Sergeant Tracy Lyle
Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Warehouse Worker
Message Home: Hello to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Going on patrols with
my platoon.
Name: First Lieutenant David Bourgeois
Hometown: Bossier, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Salesman
Message Home: Hello to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Being mobilized with my brother and getting to go to ceremonies for him and do things with him!
Name: Staff Sergeant Alton Sinclair
Hometown: Augusta, Maine
Civilian Occupation: Maine Central Railroad
Message Home: Hello to my wife Bobbi!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When we went on our first
patrol and had to pull security for someone to go and get a Pepsi!
Name: Sergeant First Class William Edwards
Hometown: Shreveport, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Carpenter
Message Home: Hello to my wife!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Being selected as the
First Sergeant for Bravo Company!
Name: Specialist Ryan Bulger
Hometown: Rumford, Maine
Civilian Occupation: Maine Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to Tank & Dozer!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: On our first mission
I slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting a dog, and almost launched my gunner out of the vehicle!
Name: Specialist Timmy Drake
Hometown: Auburn, Maine
Civilian Occupation: Construction
Message Home: Hello to my mom and dad!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Watching Ripley dive
into some concertina wire the first time the paladins fired!
Name: Specialist D. J. Baylor
Hometown: Alexandria, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: College Student
Message Home: Hello to my mom, Monica, Jarvis, Tykitta,
Lakeith, & all of the other people I couldn’t think of at the moment!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When I lied to First
Sergeant Sapp about my profile. I told him I had 4 days off when I only had 2. He made me sweep the entire parking lot in Ft.
Hood with a hand broom!
Name: Second Lieutenant Keith Bores
Hometown: Keithville, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Computer Programmer
Message Home: Hello to my wife, my little boy, my mom
& Michael, my dad, my grandparents, my uncles & aunts, the Howard family, the Heaser family, the Peace family, and
Marty & Bill!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When Sergeant First Class
Shavers flipped a vehicle into a canal. Water was flowing through it and he was
the first one to get out! He was the one who said to the other guys “Let
me show you guys how to drive this thing!”
Name: Sergeant First Class Stanley Shavers
Hometown: Dekalv, Texas
Civilian Occupation: Maintenance Technician
Message Home: Hello to my mom & dad, and my sons
Alex & Stanley III
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Major Burruss and I were
dismounted and we came upon some culvert ditches filled with water. We tried
to jump a bank and he fell into waist high water and was floating on his back. He
got out of it and his cigarettes were the only things that were saved because
they were in a Ziploc bag!
Name: Master Sergeant Ricky Butler
Hometown: Woodworth, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Messing with Major Vige’s
computer! I set it up to talk back to him when he hit a key. When he would hit the shift key, the computer would say “you have hit the shift key!”…
and so on. I also set it up for
left handed mouse movements.
Name: Specialist Yulonda Shelby
Hometown: Zwolle,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: College Graduate
Message Home: Hello to my mom & dad, my brothers,
my niece & nephew, my sister-in-law & Chris, and friends & family!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When I got stuck
in a port-o-let. Someone pulled a truck up to it and blocked off the door with
me still in it!
Name: Sergeant D. J. Kremer
Hometown: Enumclaw,
Washington
Civilian Occupation: Diesel Technician
Message Home: Hello to my wife & kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: My gunner and I have
prank battles all the time! I found a picture of this half naked guy and I had
the whole team sign it and write comments all over it to give to him! We put
it on his truck and he didn’t notice. We told him to pose in front of the
vehicle for pictures. He did all kinds of bad ass poses like the one shown above,
not knowing that a picture of this half naked guy was on his vehicle with him in the pictures!
Name: Chief Warrant Officer 1 Dale Cullivan
Hometown: Palermo,
Maine
Civilian
Occupation: Database Administrator
Message Home: Hello to my wife Charelle & my kids
Dayson and Denver!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: It was great to get here
and find out that we would not be living in tents!
Name:
Specialist Stephen Grotton
Hometown: Warren, Maine
Civilian Occupation: Maine Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to my dad!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: We made some MRE bombs by putting
the heaters into bottles of water! We threw them out and they didn't explode, so we forgot about them for a while.
A couple of guys walked by & the bottle went off. I think the guy soiled himself, although we are not sure!
Name: Major Robert Wright
Hometown: Crowley, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Food Chemist
Message Home: Hello to my wife Teresa & my kids Ashley,
Zachary, Sarah, & Samantha!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Whenever the Iraqi's voted for
the elections, they had their fingers dipped in ink so they could not vote twice. They were all proud of their
purple fingers!
Name: Sergeant Chad Bowman
Hometown: Corinth,
Maine
Civilian Occupation: Shop Foreman
Message Home: Hello to my mom Wanda & dad Bruce,
my nieces, nephews, & friends!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: I gave an Iraqi a bottle of
water and he said "F*ck you very much!"...instead of "Thank you very much!" I guess that was just one of the
words they taught him!
Name: Captain Cameron Magee
Hometown: Baton
Rouge, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Attourney
Message Home: Hello to my wife and little Cameron!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When I broke my front tooth,
which was already fake, eating some tough beef jerky!
Name: Master Sergeant Tony Harrington
Hometown: Oakdale, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Electrician
Message Home: Hello to my wife, Dina & Jimmy, all
my people at Earnest P. Breaux, & my friends at Immaculata Heart!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: It had to be the Family Day
that we had at the park for our unit before we got deployed!
Name: Staff Sergeant Tammy Clause
Hometown: Dexter, Missouri
Civilian Occupation: Louisiana Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to my sons Tyler & Conner and
my family and friends!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: This guy went
to take a shower one night and someone stole ALL of his clothes! He got out of the shower and had to steal someone else's
towel to walk outside and get back to his trailer!
Name: Major Christopher Cerniauskas
Hometown: East
Hartford, Connecticut
Civilian
Occupation: Army National Guard
Message Home: Hello to my wife Barbara, my sons Michael
& Christopher, my mom & dad, and my dogs Trooper, Simba, & Revielle!
Fondest
Memory From Deployment: Watching about 1,000 Iraqi's road marching
12 kilometers one way from Abu Gharib to go vote for election day!
Name: Staff Sergeant Paul Breaux
Hometown: Church Point, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Project Manager at Franks
Message Home: Hello to my wife & kids, and the Church
Point-namese!
Fondest
Memory From Deployment: Watching the Iraqi Police get ready for a mission.
They looked like the Keystone Cops because they kept bumping into each other!
Name: Specialist Colby Guidry
Hometown: Duson, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Salesman
Message Home: Hello to my mom & dad, my brothers,
my girlfriend, & my grandparents!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: When it rained so much that
it flooded in Iraq!
Name: Staff Sergeant
Shaun Warren
Hometown: Kenner,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation:
Sales Manager for Dillards
Message Home: Hello
to my mom & my fiance!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
We were in a vehicle when Major Gardner heard a boom and told everyone to get out of the vehicle and into the bunker.
Everyone from 1st CAV was laughing at us! We had just arrived in country and really didn't know what to expect!
Name: Second Lieutenant Shane Istre
Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Private Investigator
Message Home: Hello to Amy and my 2 boys Bryant
& Mason!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: The first time I
drove to South Victory and went to a cafe in the MWR center. It had marble floors and I sat on a couch and looked out
at this chandelier. It was like I was in whole different place!
Name: Eric Robers
Hometown: Elkhorn,
Wisconsin
Civilian Occupation:
Wisconsin Army National Guard
Message Home: Hell to
my dog Edward!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Being a test dummy for a taiser safety video!
Name: Darren Rhabermehl
Hometown: Franklin,
Wisconsin
Civilian Occupation:
Construction / Electrician
Message Home: Hello
to my wife Kim & son Sean!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
I walked out of my trailer one day to go to work and forgot to put on my pants. I had on my uniform top, my kevlar,
vest, the whole 9 yards.... and no pants! Luckily, someone caught me and let me know before I got too far! I was
tired that day.
Name: Sergeant Brock
Thibodeaux
Hometown: Carencro,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation:
Nursing Student
Message Home: Hello
to my mom, dad, Rachel, John, Big G, & Angela
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
Sergeant Melancon started screaming "get down, get down!" in his sleep as if bombs were coming in. I jumped out of bed
and hit the floor. When I realized what was going on I told him to shut up and go back to bed. This is the same
roomate who tried to pee in my boot one night!
Name: Second Lieutenant
Mike Hartzheim
Hometown: West Alice,
Wisconsin
Civilian Occupation:
Tool & Die Maker
Message Home: Hello
to my wife and my kids!
Fondest Memory From Deployment:
I told Staff Sergeant Ullenberg to clean my office one day. He set my desk up outside between two buildings with everything
on it as it would have been in the office! It was too funny!
Name: Specialist Charles Turner
Hometown: Donaldsonville,
Louisiana
Civilian Occupation: Plant Operator
Message Home: Hello to my wife Javonne!
Fondest Memory From Deployment: Getting to play flag
football in Iraq!
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