Mosul, Iraq - Soldiers from the 4th Battalion of the 23rd Infantry at Fort Richardson are living and working in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq. These soldiers are running patrols in the city looking for insurgents. A patrol of soldiers from Fort Richardson pushes its way through the streets of Mosul, Iraq. It is a quiet day, no one shoots at the armored vehicles with an assault rifle and no roadside bomb is discovered. But these things do happen here on a regular basis.
“They pop at us a lot and we don’t see them all the time but when we do, we do chase after them. It’s kind of like cat and dog chasing and sometimes we get them, sometimes we don’t, it’s just the luck of draw,” said Jason Stokes, Anchorage, Bravo Company. [...]
A Soldier's Story, Part 1: Soldiers battle in a different type of landscape
Link to Full Articleby Doug Grindle, KYUU-TV, Anchorage
Mosul, Iraq - Soldiers from the 4th Battalion of the 23rd Infantry at Fort Richardson are living and working in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq. These soldiers are running patrols in the city looking for insurgents. A patrol of soldiers from Fort Richardson pushes its way through the streets of Mosul, Iraq. It is a quiet day, no one shoots at the armored vehicles with an assault rifle and no roadside bomb is discovered. But these things do happen here on a regular basis.
