Headquarters at Qayyara West in Northern Iraq - May 3-July 2003
Jump Team 1, Mosul, Northern Iraq - May 3 - July 2003
Jump Team 1 was located with the 2-44 ADA, 101st Airborne Division. They were responsible for medical care of those soldiers as well as the allied soldiers with whom they were training. The 2-44 ADA was providing security to the ammo supply point (ASP). This ASP was the 2nd largest in the world until May 22nd, 2003. A brush fire whipped through the ASP causing massive exlosions for 8 hours. All our soldiers evacuated without injury. The other mission of the ASP was to train the New Iraqi Security Force (NISF) and the Peshmurga (Kurdish special forces) to perform security for the ASP. Jump Team 1 provided first aid classes to the allied soldiers as part of this ADA mission.
Jump Team 1 was the first group of medics to recertify Combat Lifesavers for the 101st Airborne during operation Iraqi Freedom. The next evening after recertification a 101st soldier used the Heimlich maneuver to save a choking soldier!
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