Baq from Iraq

on April 27, 2008 12:13 PM | Permalink |

LOS ALAMITOS - Sgt Donald Chang greets his sons Jason Chang, 4, and James Chang, 12, as he and other soldiers of the 160th Long Range Surveillance Detachment arrive at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, Calif. after a 12-month combat tour in Iraq on Sunday, April 27, 2008.

During their deployment, the Soldiers conducted security missions around Camp Slayer as Task Force Shield's Quick Reaction Force. Task Force Shield, consisted of five companies of National Guard units from California,
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com

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