Clapper deployed in Iraq

    Army Maj. Gilbert A. Clapper is currently deployed in Iraq to support the mission of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
       Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.
      Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq’s economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq’s sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
      Clapper, a nurse anesthetist with 14 years of military service, is normally assigned to Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point, N.Y.
      He is the son of Doug and Barb Clapper of Newport News, Va.    
    His wife, Heather, is the daughter of Jane Sincerbeaux, of Bridgewater.
      The major graduated in 1991 from Denbigh High School, Newport News, and received a bachelor’s degree in 1995 from Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.