Thomas D. Battle, the battalion adjutant with 2nd Battalion, 402nd Army Field Support Brigade out of Rock Island, Ill., reads his poem to the audience while other entertainers listened during the Joint Base Balad Poetry Slam at Morale, Welfare and Recreation east Feb. 11 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Battle, a Portsmouth, Va., native, chaired the committee for the event. Greek societies host poetry slam at JBB 252979

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