Dear Central Illinois Proud Families of Marines:
Thank you all so much for your incredibly generous gifts. The stockings were obviously made with much love and care and my Soldiers and I very much enjoyed receiving them on Christmas. I have attached some pictures of the Soldiers here in the Battalion's Operations Center with their Stockings on Christmas day. This is just a small sampling of the Soldiers from Task Force Longhorn who received your gifts. In our BN alone, we received over 200 stockings!!! This allowed us to ship a stocking to every one of our Soldiers spread throughout 27 bases in Baghdad and Southern Iraq. Amazing. Thank you all so much. To tell you a little bit more about our unit. We are the 303d Military Intelligence Battalion, an Intelligence Collection Battalion. We have a distinguished history dating back to WWII and we are The Army's most decorated Military Intelligence Battalion. As a collection Battalion, our Soldiers are responsible for collecting all the intelligence to help Combat Commanders make decision about their operations. When not deployed in Iraq, the Battalion is based out of Fort Hood, in Central Texas. Many of our Soldiers are on their second or third rotation in Iraq and some are even on their forth. This is the Battalion's third deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prior to this deployment, the 303d Military Intelligence Battalion had a previous rotation to Iraq from Jan - Dec 2004 and then again from Aug 2006-Oct 2007. We arrived in Iraq for this deployment right before Thanksgiving. This tour should be a twelve month rotation for us, which means we will all be home for the holidays next year. Thank you all again for your wonderful generosity; it is truly amazing and awe inspiring. v/r MAJ Michelle Krawczyk Task Force Longhorn Operations Officer ![]() |