{"id":242,"date":"2009-10-05T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-10-05T01:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T06:59:47","slug":"battalion-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/battalion-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Battalion Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"

LTC David Chase<\/a>Greetings from South West Asia,<\/p>\n

It is hard to believe another month has passed already since our last newsletter as I had mentioned keeping busy has really helped the time pass quickly. Speaking of busy this will put the work our soldiers are doing in perspective. As you know we have a huge security mission covering two critical facilities in our area of responsibility. Part of keeping those facilities safe involves individual searches of civilian workers, contractors, and military personnel as they enter and exit our facilities. The numbers of personnel that our soldiers search is mind boggling. Since we have taken over this mission our soldiers have searched roughly the equivalent of the population of Sioux Falls! Think of that – how long would it take to search every man, woman and child in the city of Sioux Falls that would be a daunting task. For the soldiers of the 147th it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just another day at the office.
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\nPersonnel searches are only part of the equation, vehicle searches are the larger and more difficult part of this mission. Nearly every vehicle that enters our two facilities has to be searched both inside and out, and our soldiers are experts. The number of vehicles searched so far is about equal to half the population of Sioux Falls. Given that amount of vehicles if you lined them bumper to bumper it that line would be roughly 180 miles long! On top of that we have perimeter security Quick Reaction Force and Area reaction force for both facilities, so yes we are busy.<\/p>\n

On the plus side the weather is slowly starting to change for the better a few hot humid days in the last few weeks but it is starting to cool down to the low 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at night. In South Dakota that would be miserable at night but here the low 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at night seems like fall weather. The nights get a little cooler each week, and the days are only around 100 which is actually pretty nice.<\/p>\n

Our leave rotations are in full swing so some of you may have already had the chance to see you loved ones. When our soldiers that return from leave they all say leave was great but just too short. I understand fully how hard it is to say goodbye when they return; it is never easy. Just remember the importance of the job that your loved ones are doing on this deployment and the outstanding manner in which our soldiers perform, and be proud of the service they are giving for our great nation. I am also extremely proud of the job our families are doing at home your hardships and sacrifices are not forgotten by us we all appreciate everything that you do. I have said this many times knowing things are taken care of at home allows us to focus on our job and stay on task, thank you once again. On the bright side just think only six more newsletters until we are home.<\/p>\n

LTC David P. Chase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Spartan Six\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n1\/147th FA Commander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings from South West Asia, It is hard to believe another month has passed already since our last newsletter as I had mentioned keeping busy has really helped the time pass quickly. Speaking of busy this will put the work our soldiers are doing in perspective. As you know we have a huge security mission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdrcorner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dakotasteelrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}