A Salute to Our CPD Military Reservists - Chicago Cop.com

The point is that reservists serve
numerous functions in times of peace,
as well as in times of war. Some go
into battle, while some step in to fill
positions or offer support. Some may
be deployed stateside, while others are
deployed throughout the world.All of
them play important roles.
In the following section, we will
share some of our Department
members’ contributions. It is not
possible to include everyone’s stories.
This section is only meant to give
fellow officers a taste of what some of
our reservists have been up to recently.
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PO Roy Taylor (009) - Army
Explosive Technician Christopher Strahlman
(603) pictured with his children before his
deployment to Kuwait
“Let us have faith that right makes might,
and in that faith,
let us to the end dare to do our duty
as we understand it.”
James Robinson (021)
Master Sergeant/Army
James Robinson (021) has been a
Chicago Police officer for 12 years and
a soldier for 25 years. A Master
Sergeant in the Army, Robinson just
returned from a 13-month deployment
with U.S.A. Europe Command,
an Army Intel mission that covered 93
countries from West and South Africa
to Western and Eastern Europe. The
mission’s main goal is force protection,
which means they keep sites safe from
terrorist surveillance and attacks.
According to Robinson, one Army
infantryman requires a support crew of
12-16 persons.
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P.O. Ryan Doherty (002) (no photo
available) is currently in Iraq. In a
letter, Doherty wrote that his unit
started out in Camp Coyote, Kuwait
before heading into Iraq. He said they
had to keep moving, so sanitary condi-
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tions were non-existent for a while. In
An Nasiriyah, they acted as a security
force at an airfield, and then were reassigned
to work a prison camp they
built in Umm Qasar. They may soon
be relieved by more Military Police
battalions. When they are, Doherty
says he is looking forward to coming
back to work!
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Police officers and brothers Andres
and Richard Zayas (765/Public
Housing) are also both in the Naval
Reserves. Andres has been on the
Department for nine years and in the
Navy for 18 years. In November 2002,
he was deployed to Ecuador with the
USSOUTHCOM Mission. This
mission coordinated counterdrug
strategies as part of the War on
Terrorism, since narcotics have been
linked to terrorist funding. It consisted
of members from all four branches of
the military and other U.S. government
agencies. Richard Zayas is
preparing to relieve the security forces
in Spain who will soon be returning.
Officer Zayas and brother Richard
Chicago Police Star — 315th Issue — June 2003