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Shifting duties, constant dangers

Jan-27-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Army Times has another reporter, Robert Hodierne, with the SBCT in Mosul. Strykerparent sent me this article, which describes the joint missions between the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st and the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Stryker Brigade. Lots of color in this piece.

[Link to Full Article]

By Robert Hodierne
Times staff writer

MOSUL, Iraq — Cpl. Jerred Horn had just searched the second floor of a house here and was headed for the stairs.

Horn and most of the rest of the men in Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, are battle-hardened. they fought their way north from the Kuwaiti border last March, and since the fall of Baghdad have been combination Texas Rangers and Peace Corps in this city of 1.7 million people.

Even though they have searched hundreds of homes just like this one — looking for weapons and information — they brought to their patrol the kind of survival intensity one would expect from grunts who know they are scheduled to return home in less than three weeks.

But when Horn startled a rooster that came squawking down the stairs, he still was relaxed enough to shout to one of his buddies, “Hey, Pickard, here comes your prom date.”


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