article_snippet.sent: James Lehnardt served with an artillery unit in Iraq during one of James Lehnardt deployments where James Lehnardt held the rank of specialist.
article_snippet.sent: James Lehnardt was based in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, from July 2009 as part of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 17th Fires Brigade, Brigade Aviation Element.
article_snippet.sent: The unit, part of the 7th Division, co-ordinated American and Iraqi security force missions in the south of Iraq after British forces left and American troops were deployed there to deal with the Shi'ite militia which took control of the city.
article_snippet.sent: James Lehnardt was later based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Tacoma, Washington and more recently, the Augusta-Fort Gordon area of Georgia.