Besmaya Combat Training Center, Iraq

By SGT Chad Menegay (USF-I DCG A&T PAO)August 25, 2010

Besmaya Combat Training Center
1 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – An Iraqi Army Soldier stores a 120mm High Explosive Anti Tank round after a training exercise as part of the M1A1 Tank Familiarization Course Aug. 11 at the Besmaya Combat Training Center, Iraq. Iraqi Army Soldiers are to operate and command M1A1 A... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
2 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Iraqi Army Soldiers unload 120mm High-Explosive-Anti-Tank rounds off of an M1A1 tank after a training exercise as part of the M1A1 Tank Familiarization Course Aug. 11 at the Besmaya Combat Training Center, Iraq. Around 500 Iraqi Army soldiers have gr... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
3 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rachel Maddow (lower left), a television host for MSNBC, climbs into an M1A1 tank, as Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May (right), Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, offers encouragement during a live-fire exercise Aug. 19 a... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
4 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rachel Maddow, a television host for MSNBC, and Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, share a laugh as Maddow relates her M1A1 tank exercise experience after a live-fire exercise Aug. 19 at t... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
5 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Rachel Maddow (foremost left), a television host for MSNBC, Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, and Iraqi Army Col. Abbas Fadhil Sahib (right), Besmaya Combat Training Center commander, wa... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
6 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Beachman, Senior Advisor with Iraq Training and Advisory Mission - Army at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq, and a Somers, N.Y., native, and Iraqi Army Col. Abbas Fadhil Sahib, commander at the Besmaya Combat Training Cent... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Besmaya Combat Training Center
7 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Richard Holladay, Senior Enlisted Advisor with Iraq Training and Advisory Mission - Army at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq, and a Clarksville, Tenn., native, salutes as Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and A... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL