Tom Klump

Capt. Tom Klump, 25, of the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, reads as he waits for a C-130 outside the passenger terminal tents at the airfield at Camp Speicher, Iraq.Klump, the battalion's personnel officer, said the new passenger service at Speicher means his soldiers heading home for R&R don't have to travel in long, dangerous convoys to catch their flights nearly as often.
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Capt. Tom Klump, 25, personnel officer of the 1st ID's 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, is in charge of sending his unit's troops home on leave.

As he waited for his own R&R flight Wednesday, he said the addition of C-130s at Speicher has drastically curtailed his need to load vacation-bound soldiers into trucks for dangerous convoy runs to Balad or Mosul from the unit's base in Bayji, 30 miles northwest of Tikrit.

"For these guys up north, it's obviously a lot safer," Klump said.

U.S. Army Captain Tom Klump