402nd AFSB media spotlight

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq-field support Brigade 402nd Army became the media spotlight two main media engagements during August.

Lt. column Garry Bush, 2nd Battalion, 402nd army field support Brigade, Commander of a contingent in law upon export performance, international media Redistribution property assistance Team Yard käyttövarantoja current Base Adder, Iraq development on 18 may also continue to hand was Lt. column Andy Parker, the u.s. Division-South Logistics support element Commander.

Martin Chulov correspondent for terrorism matters, the Guardian (UK) newspaper, Chris Albert videographer-60 minutes "and Mike Shuster, diplomatic and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio members of the Media.

Visitors was 402nd AFSB, welcome to the Command of the armed forces and the Army Materiel Command, then took a tour of a briefing for missions in RPAT yard at the same time, Bush and Parker peppering questions.

"It is amazing that the media wants to know what we can do this. even though it is not an elegant, is important, maybe even the most important task of responsible withdrawal," said Air Force Captain Le Tran, RPAT Yard officer-in-charge that hosts the duo, producers in the development of 25, unrelated visit only five days after the date on which the future on 60 minutes."It means a lot of people who work in the yard, in the knowledge that the world wants to know what they are doing and that their efforts should be measured."

A second group of international media in the context of the joint Base Balad landed on the development of 27, to meet with the Col Lawrence Fuller, Commander, army of field support Brigade 402nd, and other base logisticians.

Fuller, the consequences of the members of the media set, and then run the Associated Press Television One-on-one interviews; Rania El Gamalin, Reuters News correspondent for terrorism matters; Takeshia Tsuchiya, HR contact Cairo Bureau of Kyodo News (Japan), and others.
"These media events where the great opportunity to tell 402nd army field support Brigade, army material Command and military welcome to Command the story directly to the international media," said column Lawrence w. Fuller, Commander, 402nd AFSB. "One-on-one interaction is the best way to communicate and we were glad to be able to 402nd AFSB has made this point out many of the achievements in Iraq. "