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May 20, 2012 - 4:51:44 PM |
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Blackanthem Military News
25th ID and 36th ID Soldiers work together to provide a bigger communications network to COB Adder
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| Staff Sgt. Christopher Cioffi, 36th Inf. Div. help desk noncommissioned officer, runs cables throughout office trailers to provide a communication network for computers and phones on Contingency Operating Base Adder 23 Aug. (Photo by Spc. Brittany H. Gardner) |
COB ADDER, Iraq - Red and green cables crisscross from trailer to trailer through holes in the floors of offices to other office trailers, and buried under gravel and sand. Soldiers from the 36th Infantry Division and 25th Infantry Division linked together a network of cables in order to provide communication to a team that will soon arrive to Contingency Operating Base Adder.
Sgt. 1st Class Jack Griffith, 25th ID help desk noncommissioned officer in charge, manages a team of ten Soldiers. This group is divided into multiple sections, each having a specific function.
Griffith's team is preparing for Contingency Operating Base Adder to expand and accommodate the Soldiers moving from other bases around Iraq. Imaging computers, setting up email accounts, information assurance, and running cables to set up a network has been their main concern since arriving here a month ago.
"Everything's strategic," said Griffith, "and we're going to go into a tactical environment with a lot more people. And with a tactical environment with a lot more people, you know, we have to have a lot more switches and wires that actually connects that network together."
These 25th ID and 36th ID Soldiers have been working side-by-side to make this expansion process easier. Running wires indoors and outdoors, burying the cables and running tests have been a daily priority for these Soldiers, said 2nd Lt. Ragnar Jamieson, 36th ID tactical command platoon leader.
"This is allowing individuals to have command and control of USD-South in an extended format, if you will," said Jamieson. "And our generals and our different staffs can actually come up to Adder and perform the same functions they can from Basra here."
The work these Soldiers have put in to expand the communication network is one step toward the transfer of responsibility from 36th ID to the 25th ID.
"This is part of the transition between the 36th ID over to 25th ID," said Jamieson.
"Basically what we're going to do is connect our servers to the 25th ID, so that our servers can still communicate to our forward element up here in Adder and allow 25th ID to also have communications through our network. And then eventually we'll switch over to their network."
The cables and wires these Soldiers have worked tirelessly to set up will soon provide a network to support phones and Internet for the many new Soldiers who will live and work on COB Adder.
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| Staff Sgt. Christopher Cioffi, 36th Inf. Div. help desk noncommissioned officer, works with Staff Sgt. James M. Naven, 36th Inf. Div. signal operator, to run cables throughout office trailers to provide a communication network for computers and phones on Contingency Operating Base Adder 23 Aug. (Photo by Spc. Brittany H. Gardner) |
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| Staff Sgt. James M. Naven, 36th Inf. Div. signal operator, runs a test on the communication network for computers and phones on Contingency Operating Base Adder 23 Aug. (Photo by Spc. Brittany H. Gardner) |
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| Sgt. 1st Class Jack Griffith, 25th Inf. Div. help desk noncommissioned officer in charge, buries a cable to the communication network on Contingency Operating Base Adder 24 Aug. (Photo by Spc. Brittany H. Gardner) |
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