Hill reporters Jonathan E. Kaplan and Hans Nichols recently spent two weeks in Iraq. The Hill will publish their exclusive reports this week and next. Today: Personal impressions gleaned during their travels around the newly liberated and occupied Middle Eastern nation.
There are only a few sentences about the Brigade in this story, I have copied them below.
For three hours, we sat at an isolated Army outpost, home to the new Stryker Brigade Combat Team, six weeks in country, relatively fresh from Fort Lewis, Wash.
They seemed awed by the unexpected touchdown of Black Hawks, and a few young soldiers came by to have their pictures taken in the cockpit. The pilot, with 11 months in country, just smiled.
Avoiding Ali Baba
Hill reporters Jonathan E. Kaplan and Hans Nichols recently spent two weeks in Iraq. The Hill will publish their exclusive reports this week and next. Today: Personal impressions gleaned during their travels around the newly liberated and occupied Middle Eastern nation.
There are only a few sentences about the Brigade in this story, I have copied them below.
For three hours, we sat at an isolated Army outpost, home to the new Stryker Brigade Combat Team, six weeks in country, relatively fresh from Fort Lewis, Wash.
They seemed awed by the unexpected touchdown of Black Hawks, and a few young soldiers came by to have their pictures taken in the cockpit. The pilot, with 11 months in country, just smiled.
