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Reid seeks inquiry in Nevadan’s Iraq death

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday asked the State Department and Pentagon to investigate the electrocution of a 25-year-old private security contractor while showering in his dormitory in Baghdad.

Henderson man killed in Baghdad

WASHINGTON — A Henderson man who worked for a State Department contractor has been electrocuted while showering in Baghdad even as U.S. authorities in Iraq try to remedy bathhouse wiring problems that have led to the deaths of U.S. troops there.

Nevada National Guard avoids harm in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber attacked a marketplace in Afghanistan on Wednesday near where Nevada Army National Guard soldiers are serving, killing the country’s deputy intelligence chief and 22 others who were leaving a mosque near the city’s main bazaar, authorities said.

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Leader of Nevada military unit describes soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan

In a collection of essays by Lt. Col. Scott Cunningham, the Review-Journal will follow him and the 700 soldiers he commands in the 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry as they experience the largest overseas deployment of Nevada National Guard troops. The unit departed Las Vegas on April 18 and trained at Camp Atterbury, Ind. They were flown to Afghanistan at the end of June to conduct combat operations with NATO forces as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Duty permitting, Cunningham will periodically report his impressions from the embattled country.



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Gibbons visits troops in Basra area of Iraq

Gov. Jim Gibbons visited soldiers in Iraq on Sunday as part of a three-governor tour to gauge troop morale in the Basra area, according to a military news release.

Video link lets Marine in Iraq watch birth of his son in Las Vegas

Little Julian Quintana visited his daddy in Iraq today, the second such visit in his three days of life. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Quintana, 20, who is stationed in Iraq, visited with his newborn son and his wife, Crystal, through a satellite video conference arranged through Freedom Calls, a charity that facilitates hundreds of “baby conferences” for military families each month.

Measure would offset lost income of citizen-soldiers

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seeking to help families of National Guard and Reserve troops whose incomes as citizen-soldiers are reduced by deployments in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Deployed Nevada Army National Guard unit has nine sets of siblings

The Lowells and the Petersens, seen above training at Camp Atterbury in Indiana, are just two of nine sets of brothers serving in Nevada’s 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry of the Nevada Army National Guard, which will be heading out in a few weeks for some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.



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‘Welcome Home’ event to support area veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan

From left, Selwyn Goldberg, Jack Cohen and Ed Kranson, all volunteers from Jewish War Veterans Post 65, are leading the effort to help local veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by sponsoring the “Welcome Home” event June 5 at the Gold Coast.

SAYING GOODBYE TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS

About 650 soldiers from Nevada’s 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry mobilized Friday for a tour in Afghanistan in what their commander says is the largest overseas deployment of Nevada National Guard troops in history.

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