War Heros

We dedicate this page to show our appreciation to the Freedom loving people of the coalition forces and give an honor and salute their action for freeing the Iraqi people from the most cruel regime in the modern History....

First of all we salute all the soldiers , second we salute the leaders......

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young hugs his mother, Kaye Young, and his father, Ron Young, after arriving at Fort Hood, Texas Sunday. The pilot was captured by Iraqi forces after his helicopter was forced down with mechanical problems. Young and fellow pilot Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams were rescued unharmed after the fall of Baghdad earlier this month.

He is the main military advisor to the president, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council. A former Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran, he joined the military in 1965. Noted for his laid-back demeanor, Myers, 61, often rides his Harley Davidson motorcycle to work and plays the saxophone. He and his wife have two daughters and a son.

Gen. Tommy Franks
Commander of Central Command
In the spotlight since military operations began in Afghanistan, Franks is held in high esteem by the Bush administration, though he is not as media savvy as his Gulf War counterpart, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. The 57-year-old Texan had heated disagreements with defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld over battle plans for Iraq. He received three Purple Hearts in Vietnam. He rose quickly through Army and served with the First Cavalry Division during the 1991 Gulf War.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner
Head of the Pentagon's office for postwar planning
A 38-year Army veteran, Garner is widely respected for restoring order and setting up the government in northern Iraq after the Persian Gulf War. While the war rages in Iraq, Garner, 64, will lead the initial humanitarian effort and report to Gen. Tommy Franks. Known for his determination and ability to get things done, he is well liked both in and out of the military. In 1991 he was the last officer to leave Iraq and reportedly had the Kurds begging him to stay.

Lt. Gen. T. Michael Moseley
CENTCOM's air war commander
As the air component commander for Central Command, Buzz Moseley leads air operations in Iraq as well as the entire Central Command, which runs from the Middle East to parts of Africa. Known to be politically and media savvy, he most recently commanded the air operations in Afghanistan. He was criticized for the way he handled an investigation into a friendly fire incident that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.

Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating
Chief naval commander
Keating is the head of the NAVCENT, Navy Central Command, as well as the 5th fleet based in Manama, Bahrain. A combat veteran of the Gulf War, Keating is responsible for all naval operations during the Iraq conflict and will command five aircraft carrier battle groups in positions around the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean.

Lt. Gen. James T. Conway
Top Marine commander in gulf region
Conway is the top Marine commander in the Persian Gulf region. A veteran of Desert Storm, he is the former commander of the 1st Marine Division. Originally from Arkansas, he has a reputation as a family man. His son and son-in-law are among the 60,000 Marines under his command.

Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan
Army Forces Central Command
McKiernan is commander of the 3rd U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Forces Central Command. He is responsible for leading Army ground forces into Iraq. Known as even tempered and soft-spoken, he has said that any attack by Iraq with weapons of mass destruction would be met with a dramatic response. During the Persian Gulf War he was stationed in the VII Corps headquarters and directed ground operations.

Lt. Gen. Earl B. Hailston
Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command/ Marine Corps Forces Pacific
Hailston is the commander of the MARCENT, Marine Corps Forces Central Command, in Manama, Bahrain, and is responsible for all Marine operations in the invasion of Iraq. Gen. Tommy Franks tapped Hailston to command operations in the attack on Iraq from his post as the commander of Marine forces in the Pacific.

Maj. Gen. Buford Blount III
Commander of the 3rd Infantry Division
Blount, 54, is the commander of the Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division leading the drive to Baghdad from Kuwait. The 30-year Army veteran commands more than 20,000 troops specializing in desert warfare, 200 tanks and more than 200 armored personnel carriers. Media friendly, his division is hosting 85 "embedded" journalists to record the units action in Iraq.

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus
Commander, 101st Airborne Division
As leader of one of the Army's most storied units, Petraeus is a high-profile officer known for his gung-ho attitude and his ease with enlisted men. The 101st, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., is an air-assault division, meaning its troops generally ride into battle on helicopters a vocation Petraeus knows well from his days as an enlisted man in Vietnam. Petraeus went on to West Point, graduating in 1974, then joined the Army's Rangers.

Lt. Gen. William Wallace, the commander of V Corps The Army's senior ground commander in Iraq.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr Central Command's director of operations.

Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations for U.S. Central Command forward headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Army Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the commander of the 1st Armored Division, which is responsible for Baghdad security.

Lt. Gen. T. Michael Moseley, The commander of U.S. air forces in the region.

Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment's 1st Battalion

Marine Col. Ron Johnson, operations officer for the 2nd Marines, Task Force Tarwa.

Lt. Col. Lee Fetterman, a battalion commander with the 101st Airborne Division.

Army Col. David Perkins, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade.

Maj. Mike Silverman, operations officer for the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry.

Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Coker, the engineer battalion's senior noncommissioned officer.

1st Sgt. Timothy Campbell, 35, of Bethel, Ohio, the senior noncommissioned officer of Bravo Company.

British Commander: Air Marshal Brian Burridge.
Burridge commands more than 45,000 British troops fighting with the U.S. military. About 2,000 U.S. Marines are under his command, the first time since World War II, and he reports directly to U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks. Burridge, 53, joined the Royal Air Force in 1967 and rose through the ranks, serving in top planning and political posts before becoming an air marshal. He earned a degree in physics and a masters in business administration, and serves as a defense fellow at Kings College, London.

Maj. Gen. Peter Wall, the chief of staff of British forces at Central Command.

Brigadier Graham Binns, commander of the 7th Armored Bridage, or the Desert Rats,

We salute all the armed forced of the coalition forces and their families...

Pfc. Jessica Lynch, an Army private first class. Lynch was rescued by U.S. special operations forces who slipped behind enemy lines and seized her from the Saddam Hospital

PV2 Gregory R. Huxley Jr., 19, of Forest Port, N.Y., was killed in action April 6 when the armored personnel carrier he was riding in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.

After helping evacuate wounded U.S. soldiers, Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith jumped into an M-113 armored personnel carrier, maneuvered it into the center of a walled courtyard and climbed into the commander's hatch to man its .50-caliber machine gun. Under fire from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, his flak jacket shredded by incoming rounds, Smith held off a counterattack until he was killed by a bullet to the throat. What a great hero!!