Story Highlights
- 1st Infantry Division Soldier pursuing degree while deployed to southern Iraq
Staff Sgt. Cleo Threatt 34, Signal Company, Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, looks through the course book at the Contingency Operating Base Basra Education Center. Threatt, who is from Birmingham, Ala., has taken two years of college so far and will continue working on his bachelor's degree while deployed in Iraq. Education centers like this one are located on most military installations both in the United States and foreign countries.
