‘Our unit is the transformation’

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‘Our unit is the transformation’
By Andrew Scutro - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Apr 26, 2008 6:31:35 EDT

TIKRIT, Iraq — The second caller of the day sounded drunk. He demanded to know why the Americans had not built new schools or hospitals.

Turns out, he also was blind.

he began losing his sight five years earlier and couldn’t find a doctor.

“Now I can’t see a camel,” he told Lt. Col. Rick Rhyne, who was sitting in a cramped radio studio along with an interpreter and the show’s host, a gregarious fellow known only as Mr. Lebanon.

The blind caller blamed his failed eyesight on the U.S. presence. Rhyne, commander of the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, told the caller about the new construction and other activities coalition forces had provided that were aimed at improving lives of the locals.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/SATURDAYarmy_Spartans_042508w/