Maurice L. Williams

Army Lt. Col. Maurice L. Williams is currently deployed as a member of Task Force Marne, one of more than 20,000 soldiers from the Fort Stewart, Ga.-based 3rd Infantry Division and elements of the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky.

The soldier is serving a 15-month tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

With more than 53 patrol bases within their area of operation, the task force has made significant strides in enhancing security in the region.

Since the arrival of the task force more than a year ago, violence in the region has been reduced by more than 75 percent.

Williams is a senior intelligence officer with the 3rd Infantry Division. He has served in the military for 19 years.

He is the son of Willie Williams Sr. of Lehigh Acres.

The colonel received a bachelor’s degree in 1989 from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and earned a master’s degree in 1999 from the Joint Military Intelligence College, Washington, D.C.



Justin E. Holland

Army National Guard Pfc. Justin D. Holland is currently deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.

Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq’s economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq’s sovereignty and independence as a democracy.

Holland, a signal support systems specialist with more than one year of military service, is assigned to the 996th Area Support Medical Company, Tempe, Ariz.

He is the son of Kevin W. Holland of Fort Myers, and Diana M. Holland of Geneva, Ill.



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