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	AVENGERS JUNE FAMILY READINESS UPDATE

	Greetings from COB Speicher Iraq! Here we are at the end of June! It is hard to believe that it was almost seven months ago that we all were at the RCA Dome participating in an amazing ceremony- and just taking a wild guess, I would say that the difference in tempatures is at least a 100 degrees! Your Avengers have been working hard throughout the month. We have begun escorting convoys in a different area, have begun training for upcoming humanitarian missions and have begun to receive new vehicles to use on our convoy escort missions.
	We are also looking forward to our combined Avenger Forward and Avenger Homefront Celebration. 1LT Andy Wood and the FRG are working hard to put together an event to remember during the month of August. Our cover this month features a photo montage of a few of the handmade cards from a Sunday School class. We have received care packages, magazines, books, DVDs, candy and hundreds of boxes of Girl Scout cookies from friends and family both in Indiana and across the country- and yes, I did say hundreds of boxes! All of your Avengers are so very thankful for your continued love, support, letters and cards, and thoughts and prayers. Please enjoy the newsletter. CPT Matthew Voss matthew.voss@iraq.centcom.mil from the commander

	Dunivan's Convoy Somewhat sung to the tune of "Gilligan's Island"	Dictionary: CLP- Convoy Logistics Patrol; HETT- a huge Army tractor-trailer; C2- Convoy Commander; COB- Contingency Operating Base FOB- Forward Operating Base
	Now sit right down and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful CLP. That started from COB Speicher along with thirteen HETTs. The C2 was a mighty leading man, the Skipper was there too. Nineteen pax took off that day for a three day CLP... a three day CLP. The schedule started getting rough, the whole timeline was lost. If not for the coverage of Gun Truck 6, the whole CLP would be lost... the whole CLP would be lost. The CLP set down on several unchartered FOBs... with Dunivan, the Skipper too. Chucky and his boys. The sparks truck with Arnett and crew. the Gardner and Julian... Here on Dunivan’s Convoy!
		The pictures on the next few pages are a montage of photos taken during a recent extended mission executed by the Avengers... the mission called Dunivan’s Convoy. Pictures from top to bottom and left to right: Avengers prep their vehicles for convoy movement. SGT Scott Lower and SPC Ricky Wright prior to the mission. SPC Jeremy Bottoms checks out his .50 cal machine gun. An Iraqi Army soldier watches as a HETT moves through Mosul, Iraq. Two members of a U.S. supported militia the Sons of Iraq at a checkpoint in Iraq.

	*Avenger Gun Truck 1 leads the way across a pontoon bridge somewhere in Iraq. The Truck Commander is SPC Kenneth Arnett, PFC Kevin Ross: gunner and SPC Jonathon Ayers: driver.*
	An escorted HETT transports a Bradley Fighting Vehicle across the river. The Avengers escorted 12 HETTs to four bases and drove over 1000 miles safely. An Iraqi Army National Guard Soldier provides security along the bridge.


	Pictures from top to bottom and left to right: PFC Ryan Wade prepped to go on a mission as a gunner- he is wearing a Gunner’s Restraint System harness for added safety. Convoy Commander SSG Jason Blaize- Avenger 2-3. SPC Aaron Childress, Commo Chief, works on the commo system of an ASV. CPT Voss and SPC Ethan Stantz in the town of Ouwja- the burial place of Saddam Hussein- during a humanitarian mission with the 101st Airborne Division. Touches of home- Isabella Bunny Bear in CPT Voss’s gun truck.	Pictures from top to bottom and left to right: Gun Truck 3 with SSG Kenneth Dunivan, SPC Mathieu Householder and SPC Matthew Orlando patrol in Iraq. SSG Dunivan and SGT Lower and CPT Voss, SPC Brent Wright and SPC Bottoms before a mission. An Iraqi boy watches as the HETTs roll through Mosul.