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Squadron shows muscle in unruly Iraqi border town
Edited for brevity.Lt. Col. Bill Dolan, commander of Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, wanted to make a lasting first impression on the people of Husbayah, an outpost on the Syrian border likened by some U.S. soldiers to the frontier town Mos Eisley in the original Star Wars. So he sent Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles barreling down the main street on Sunday, as attack helicopters and two Navy F/A-18s flew low overhead. "Get your ass off the Arab Street and onto the Arab Sidewalk!" "This is a border town," Dolan told his subordinate commanders before the operation. "Anybody who has been to Juarez or Tijuana knows what that's like. There are mugs, thugs and whackos we'll have to deal with." Posted by: Dar 2003-05-06 |
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