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U.S. convoys struggle to adjust to policy change
Struggle, eh? The article is published by McClatchy, which also mourned the slow employment for Baghdad's gravediggers when The Surge started to work. CAMP TAJI, Iraq In the first month that they were in Iraq, someone threatened, shot at or tried to blow up the soldiers of the Kentucky National Guard's B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery 12 times. Last month, there were only three such incidents. But confirmation that the roads have become safer came a few weeks ago when a flier went up in the 2-138's office at this base 20 miles north of Baghdad. "Effective immediately," it read, "assume all civilian vehicles are friendly." Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2007-12-21 |
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