Iowa Guardsmen lead pivotal Do Ab battle in Afghanistan
In Do Ab Afghanistan on May 25, 41 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers faced Taliban fire in a tight zone. The Ironman Battalion fought off a much larger force with Army and Air Force support, sustaining no casualties. The engagement drew praise from Maj. Mike Wynn as a major postwar Iowa defense milestone.
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Iowa’s Ironman Battalion and Red Bull Division Legacy
The 34th Infantry Division known as the Red Bull division traces its lineage to Iowa’s Ironman Battalion, part of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and 1st Battalion 133rd Infantry. Regionalist artist Marvin Cone from Cedar Rapids designed the Red Bull insignia in 1917 while serving with the unit, and the division still uses it today.
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Education leader touts value-added evaluations in Iowa
Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass uses a basketball image to explain value-added teacher evaluations to the State Board of Education. He notes the concept tracks how student growth reflects teaching quality, while critics warn that the analyses rely on data quality and test scores and may be unreliable with missing data.
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Dying in Afghanistan Helicopter Crash Hits Navy SEALs Unit
Insurgents shot down a U S military helicopter in eastern Afghanistan killing 30 Americans and seven Afghan commandos. Among the dead were SEALs from the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden, including Jon Tumilson and Aaron Carson Vaughn, marking the deadliest single loss for American forces in the war.
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Union City
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