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This is Soldiers Radio News.
I'm Sergeant Ashleigh Torres.
Deployments and their effects.
Gail McCabe talked with Central Command Commander, General David Petraeus,
about the soldiers and families who serve and how America supports them.
[McCabe] Let's talk now about the military forces that you've got serving in Central Command.
What's the message that you want them to know?
[Petraeus] They need to know how much Americans--after nine years now of war--
how much Americans appreciate, more than ever, the sacrifices
that our great young men and women in uniform have made
and also that their families back home have made.
As I mentioned, nothing means more to those in uniform
than an awareness that those back home do appreciate
and value what it is that they're doing for our country.
[Torres] It's the most snow the Washington, D.C., area has ever seen,
and the Army National Guard was called in to help clear the streets.
Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown
says with the Guard's help, the job gets done.
[Brown] We've got about 700 members of the Maryland National Guard
who have been on active duty since last Friday
in anticipation of the first round of this major snowstorm,
and they continue to be on duty, serving with and in support of our local governments--
all 24 counties and our city--supporting state agencies from State Highway
to the Maryland State Police to Maryland Transmit Administration
and performing a number of jobs.
So we're really proud of the men and women who volunteered to step forward
in the Maryland National Guard and support this effort.
[Torres] The National Weather Service officially logged record snowfalls
throughout the region at 79.9 inches,
soaring past the previous record of 62.5.
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I'm Sergeant Earl Scott.
Soldiers from Fort Lewis and Germany took their music to the troops.
Specialist Jordan Maltezo takes us to Baghdad.
[♪rock music♪] [male speaker] Welcome one and all to Poundin' Sand 2010.
[Maltezo] The Poundin' Sand 2010 concert event at Camp Victory in Baghdad
was the grand finale for two of the three headlining bands.
1st Corps' 56th Army Band's own Sunburn and Tuff Box and the Baghdad Horns
went all out for what was the final show of their tour in Iraq.
[male speaker] It feels amazing. We really couldn't ask for a better last gig.
We've been waiting for this moment for a really long time,
and I think all the groups that performed tonight put out an outstanding effort.
[Maltezo] After performing more than 150 shows for the troops all over theater
during their deployment, the Sunburn and Tuff Box band members
are about to pack it up and head back to Fort Lewis, Washington.
[male speaker] We just came here and wanted to entertain a whole bunch of people
that we've been seeing all year and to have a good time
and to introduce one of the new bands here in Iraq.
[♪upbeat music♪] [male speaker] I'll take time to introduce the band The Dirty Hescoes.
[Maltezo] Just arriving in theater from Germany, 1st Armored Division's band,
The Dirty Hescoes, are ready for their new mission.
[male speaker] We're out here to play for the troops, give them a little taste of home
while they're out here, and that's the biggest mission of all for us musicians out here,
to please the audience and just have a good time.
[male speaker] They're really good. They're rocking really well.
They played a bunch of songs I know the words to, which is awesome.
I like singing along with the band.
There's all kinds of people out here smiling and head banging and clapping
and stomping their feet, so it's doing great things for the morale.
[Maltezo] The Army band tradition of bringing live music to the troops to boost morale
will continue, as one unit's mission ends and another's begins.
Reporting from Baghdad, I'm Specialist Jordan Maltezo.
[♪upbeat music♪] That's Soldiers Radio News from Washington.
I'm Sergeant Earl Scott. [♪♪]