As we tour the unit, it is clear fine-tuning goes on all the time.
During his second tour, his unit, the Second Battalion, Third Infantry Regiment, was involved in a major battle in the city of Najaf while trying to recover a downed Apache helicopter.
On one tour, his unit was assigned to guard the United States Embassy, a task that included searching Baghdad, both on foot and in mechanized patrols, for insurgents launching attacks on the Green Zone.
Now members of a tour guide unit of the city's traffic police are using the relatively slow winter months to hone their skills in detecting illegal guides and distinguishing them from everyday tourists.
* James Dale, director for the Poz Life Expo Tour, a unit of Poz Publishing, New York, was named to the new post of advertising director for the company's two consumer health magazines, Poz and Poz En Espanol.
During these two tours, my unit lost 13 soldiers in combat and handed out twice as many Purple Hearts, including my own.
"I wanted that scale and proportion," said Ms. Tiesi, recalling how she toured a unit in the building quietly in the middle of a workday because an architecture firm occupied it at the time.
During this tour, subordinate units of the brigade were responsible for training cadets of the Baghdad civilian Police department.
A team from the Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, Ariz., toured other units before planning to add 20 rooms this year.
I am sometimes tempted to tune it all out, EXCEPT that I've toured 171 units of our National Park System and I KNOW the struggle, the blood, sweat, tears, the courage endurance that it took to get our country to the state where every American has a voice.
In turn, Dolby Laboratories bought Lake in 2004, Jackson staying with the product line to become vice president of the live sound division at Dolby, and by 2005 the loudspeaker controller was being used by seven of the ten top concert tours; 3,000 units had been built.
