United States Army Specialist Salvador Marti has arrived in Iraq as part of a troop rotation or augmentation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. soldiers from various active Army, National Guard and Reserve units serve with their own unit
United States Army Specialist Salvador Marti has arrived in Iraq as part of a troop rotation or augmentation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. soldiers from various active Army, National Guard and Reserve units serve with their own unit detachments or other units assigned at Camp Liberty, Camp Taji or other forward operating bases in the Iraqi theater of operations.
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.
Marti, a cannon crew member with three years of military service, is regularly assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, Schofield Barracks, Wahiawa, Hawai‘i.
He is the son of Salvador Marti of Anahola, and Glena Marti of Kaneohe, O‘ahu.
The specialist is a 1996 graduate of Kapa‘a High School.
