Article: 356TH BROADCAST OPERATIONS DETACHMENT

The U.S. Army issued the following news release:

Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to the 356th BOD at Fort Meade, Md., have the mission of operating an American Forces Network radio and television station in a theater of war.

Broadcasters and technicians in the unit ran AFN-Iraq from July 2006 to July 2007. They produced the daily television newscast "Freedom Journal Iraq" from studios in Baghdad. Combat correspondents covered stories from Mosul in the north to conflicts in the western desert of Al Anbar to the city of Basra in the south.

Unit DJs aired 12-16 hours of live radio daily - producing country, rock, urban and contemporary shows along with seven daily newscasts. Radio broadcasters ...

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