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By Margaret Friedenauer, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner / Associated Press
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The going rate for a duck in this northern town is about $5. That’s what Sgt. 1st Class Michael Steffey and his platoon found out while patrolling the neighborhood of Al Ahmil on Friday.
As Steffey walked the street with the 2nd Platoon, Alpha Co. of the 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment, asking about the safety of the neighborhood, a woman came out of a gate and said a Stryker vehicle had run over one of her ducks recently.
Steffey didn’t argue or press the point, but asked how much it was worth. The woman said $5. Steffey only had 20-dollar bills, but Pfc. John Follman passed over five singles.
“That one was on me,” Follman said.
It’s not clear who with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team ran over the duck, though it wasn’t Steffey’s platoon. But it was probably a driver who either didn’t realized he squashed a duck or didn’t have time to stop to reimburse the owner, as soldiers often do when they occasionally hit livestock in the busy streets.
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By Margaret Friedenauer, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner / Associated Press
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The going rate for a duck in this northern town is about $5. That’s what Sgt. 1st Class Michael Steffey and his platoon found out while patrolling the neighborhood of Al Ahmil on Friday.
As Steffey walked the street with the 2nd Platoon, Alpha Co. of the 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment, asking about the safety of the neighborhood, a woman came out of a gate and said a Stryker vehicle had run over one of her ducks recently.
