Editors Note:

In the next few issues of S&S we will be following AGR Brother David Baer, Iowa State, who is currently serving as an advisor to the newly recreated Iraqi Army. The following is an excerpt from an email message we received from Capt. Baer:


Capt. David Baer, holding the AGR flag, with the Iranian mountains in the background.

“I’ve been selected to be an advisor to the newly recreated Iraqi Army. I will be training them to be a professional army with the US army as a model. It will be challenging and rewarding work. Currently, we are with this Iraqi unit at Kirkush Military Training Base east of Baghdad about 20 miles from the Iranian border. Lots of bad guys running around and the nearest US combat unit is about 40 miles away.

The only vegetation or farming is along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where they can do some irrigation. The problem is the irrigation equipment is either broken or it has been looted. They are desperate to move into the 21st century agriculturally. They are barely self-sufficient in food, mostly because of the depredations of Hussein and his regime.”

In our latest contact with Capt. Baer, we learned that he has become a proud father. He and his wife Anne had a girl named Madeline Elizabeth Baer on October 4th, 2003. She was 6 pounds, 11 ounces and was 18 inches long. n

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