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Background: The 172 Stryker Brigade was called up and sent to Iraq ~July 2005. They were supposed to be back last August but got recalled at the last minute and held over for another four months. Guys were litterally pulled off airplanes thinking they were on their way home. (People in my town were PISSED.)
Fast forward to today. They're all home now minus a few...
It's interesting talking to them when they come in my store. For their initial deployment they were stationed around Mosul. Everyone I talked to said it wasn't so bad there. One detachment had the duty of patrolling the road between Baghdad and Mosul. They got hit by a LOT of IEDs but nobody died.
But when they were held over they were reassigned to Baghdad. To a man, they all said that BD is the wild west. The rest of the country seemed to be fairly peaceful/managable but BD was a total nightmare. Interesting to hear things from their perspective.
Welcome home guys.
Fast forward to today. They're all home now minus a few...
It's interesting talking to them when they come in my store. For their initial deployment they were stationed around Mosul. Everyone I talked to said it wasn't so bad there. One detachment had the duty of patrolling the road between Baghdad and Mosul. They got hit by a LOT of IEDs but nobody died.
But when they were held over they were reassigned to Baghdad. To a man, they all said that BD is the wild west. The rest of the country seemed to be fairly peaceful/managable but BD was a total nightmare. Interesting to hear things from their perspective.
Welcome home guys.