Task Force 1-18 Completes Hospital and School Repairs in Northern Tikrit
TIKRIT, Iraq- Company B, 1st Battalion 18th Infantry recently completed two Commander?s Emergency Relief Program (CERP) projects in Northern Tirkrit. On October 25th, Company B held grand openings at the Al Aola Primary School and the Salah Din Rehabilitation Hospital. Mahmood Jasim Al Tikrit, a local resident, said ?We really appreciate what the Americans have done. Many people will now realize that the Americans here are interested in helping us out?.
Both CERP projects were proposed by local leaders. The Al Aola School project was worth more than $25,000 and completely refurbished the school with wiring and plumbing repairs, paint, window replacement, tile repairs and new furniture.
The school serves more than 350 students in Northern Tikrit. The Salah Din Rehabilitation Hospital project was worth more than $250,000. The project repaired a failing air conditioning system, rehabilitated the heating and domestic hot water system. Additional repairs at the hospital included repairing the main electrical distribution point and building a physical therapy clinic.
With security continually improving in the Tikrit area, local residents increasingly seek to improve local schools, clinics and hospitals.
The Rehabilitation Hospital is the only hospital of its kind in Iraq. The physical therapy performed here is crucial to healing the many Iraqis who have suffered injuries resulting from the insurgency.
Capt. Dave Arnold, the B Company Commander from Centerville, VA, told local leaders that ?There are more projects on the way? and to ?expect to see ground breaking ceremony in the next three weeks for a new police station?. (Submitted by Task Force 1-18 Infantry)
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TIKRIT, Iraq- Company B, 1st Battalion 18th Infantry recently completed two Commander?s Emergency Relief Program (CERP) projects in Northern Tirkrit. On October 25th, Company B held grand openings at the Al Aola Primary School and the Salah Din Rehabilitation Hospital. Mahmood Jasim Al Tikrit, a local resident, said ?We really appreciate what the Americans have done. Many people will now realize that the Americans here are interested in helping us out?.
Both CERP projects were proposed by local leaders. The Al Aola School project was worth more than $25,000 and completely refurbished the school with wiring and plumbing repairs, paint, window replacement, tile repairs and new furniture.
The school serves more than 350 students in Northern Tikrit. The Salah Din Rehabilitation Hospital project was worth more than $250,000. The project repaired a failing air conditioning system, rehabilitated the heating and domestic hot water system. Additional repairs at the hospital included repairing the main electrical distribution point and building a physical therapy clinic.
With security continually improving in the Tikrit area, local residents increasingly seek to improve local schools, clinics and hospitals.
The Rehabilitation Hospital is the only hospital of its kind in Iraq. The physical therapy performed here is crucial to healing the many Iraqis who have suffered injuries resulting from the insurgency.
Capt. Dave Arnold, the B Company Commander from Centerville, VA, told local leaders that ?There are more projects on the way? and to ?expect to see ground breaking ceremony in the next three weeks for a new police station?. (Submitted by Task Force 1-18 Infantry)
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