Salute and Remember SSG Patrick Lee Lybert

For my Fallen Soldier Son SSG Patrick Lee Lybert, 1st PLT C Troop, 3-71 CAV (Recon) 10th Mountain Division KIA 21 June 2006, Gowardesh Afghanistan.
Patrick also served a year in Iraq with 1/32 Alpha Co. of 10th MTN DIV 2003-2004.
Any solider knowing him is invited to contact and share with me at clnfhs74@yahoo.com.

Patrick, Noah, Stacy

Patrick, Noah, Stacy
My Three Sons, May 2005

Red, faithful companion

Red, faithful companion
'waiting to play fetch"

Cheryl Lee Patrick Mother of Fallen Soldier SSG Patrick Lee Lybert

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Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States
Mother of Fallen Soldier, SSG Patrick Lee Lybert, KIA 21 June 2006, Gowardesh, Afghanistan. Any soldiers knowing my son e-mail me at clnfhs74@yahoo.com About me? I am Mother/caretaker/guardian for adult son who when his brother was KIA Afghanistan 21 June 2006 lost his future guardian/caretaker. My oldest son resides out of state. I am proud of him, he has a critically demanding and sensitive employment position, I wish he got home more. * In October of 2007 I legally dropped my married name of Nussberger, and by court order returned to my maiden name "Patrick" reason: my dear son was named for me: Cheryl Lee Patrick = Patrick Lee Lybert. I'm still married, I just reclaimed my name and who I truly am in honor of my son.

Saturday, January 05, 2008


CAMP LYBERT, Afghanistan "UPDATE"
Many friends have asked me about CAMP LYBERT built by 3-71 CAV 10th MNT DIV (LI) Recon. The camp built and then named for Patrick.

CAMP LYBERT continues and expands.

For current eye opening of the area and sacrifice soldiers endure in Afghanistan I cannot stress enough that you watch the following news clips:

Brian Ross of ABC aired November 2007

Ambush: Video Shows U.S. Troops Being Hunted, Killed
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/ambush-video-sh.html There are 4 short video clips, emotional but accurate.

Also well done and equally accurate is Anderson Cooper 360

"Ambush in Afghanistan" December 19 2007

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2007/12/19/robertson.afghan.ambush.long.cnn

You'll hear CNN reporter Nic Robertson " without enough resources they feel forgotten........They've been sent to the front line in the War on Terror. They have enough man power and weaponry for most of them to survive, but not all of them, and not enought to win."

Both news reports center around the area of CAMP LYBERT. From what I understand CAMP LYBERT is even further NE, more remote than what you'll view in those clips.

I of course only know details of CAMP LYBERT second hand. Either from dear soldiers who were there OR from News Articles and Newsletters. Here are some bits and pieces about CAMP LYBERT:

CAMP LYBERT in brief:
3-71 CAV 10th Mountain Division (LI) Recon built and named CAMP LYBERT for SSG Patrick Lee Lybert KIA 21 June 2006.

CAMP LYBERT sits a top the Mountain overlooking the Afghanistan Pakistan Borders, the same Mountain SSG Lybert was KIA on..

CAMP LYBERT sits between 6500 to 7000 feet in the sheer isolation of the Hindu Kush. "Once we were informed that it would be a permanent post we named it after Pat and I "manufactured" a flag pole out of a 2" x 4". After about a month I told our supply Sergeant, SSG Chambers, to get the largest flag poles he could find for the camp. Eventually two of the largest flag poles I could image showed up and very painfully we dug them into the stone to set them. The flag served as the only flag for over 90 days until my wife, Charity, could get some new flags to the mountain. The flag poles at Camp Lybert are at 6,985ft and are 55ft tall." End from CPT Jeff O'Dell 10th MNT DIV

"Camp Lybert was built to keep border infiltration routes closed off to insurgents" ........"They bring weapons and men over from Pakistan and then go back when the fighting gets intense….." quote SPC Timbo Harrell taken from www.salon.com Watching Afghanistan Fall wtitten by Matthew Cole Feb 2007

3-71 CAV 10th MNT DIV deployed to Afghanistan Feb. 2006 and returned 15 months later, June 2007.

June 2007 CAMP LYBERT – became home for 503rd IN, >Legion Troop, TF Saber, 173 ABCT 1st Squadron, 91st U.S. Cavalry.

CAMP LYBERT "The Edelweiss of Afghanistan" continues to grow and develop with the 503rd IN, Legion Troop, TF Sabor, 173 ABCT (1st Squadron, 91st U.S. Cavalry).

On Jan. 2, 2008 I received a message from the CPT currently @ CAMP LYBERT telling me "we received 45 children up from local towns the other day to learn English on CAMP LYBERT. It was amazing! We actually recruited a teacher from Kabul to teach the students during the winter months."

Follows excerpts taken from Watching Afghanistan Fall published
www.salon.com articles written in Feb. 2007 by Matthew Cole:

*Camp Lybert is named for Staff Sgt. Patrick Lybert, who fell in combat.

* From Kamdesh, a small outpost near the Pakistani border, to Naray, a larger base 25 miles south, to another border outpost called Camp Lybert, the 10th Mountain Division's 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry -- the so-called 3-71 -- was supposed to control a 220-square-mile triangle of territory.

*Places like Gowardesh, the site of Camp Lybert, and Kamdesh are crucial in America's war in Afghanistan. Their proximity to the areas of Pakistan where U.S. intelligence officials believe bin Laden and al-Zawahiri travel has created an instability U.S. forces are trying to counter. "Camp Lybert was built to keep border infiltration routes closed off to the insurgents," said Spc. Timbo Harrell. "They bring weapons and men over from Pakistan and then go back when fighting gets intense. We try to light 'em up if we can see them carrying the weapons. But usually weapons are hidden on donkeys and we're not allowed to engage."

But the troops in Nuristan have also suffered from sheer isolation and the topography of the Hindu Kush. At Lybert (altitude 6,500 feet), the 3-71's Charlie Company had gone 70 days without a hot shower or a hot meal. They have sustained deaths and injuries from hiking and falling. Soldiers who have served in both Iraq and Afghanistan before said their current living conditions are much worse. "Leadership doesn't care about us," said one officer, who requested that his name be withheld to avoid punishment for his comments. "We've gone on mission after mission after mission where we've gone black [run out] on food and water. They tell us, 'Pack light, your mission will only be four days tops.' But then we end up stuck on a mountaintop for two weeks. We didn't have anything, not even tents. If you can't get us off a mountain, don't put us on there…….end

(For more of Watching Afghanistan Fall search engine www.salon.com as written by Matthew Cole)

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