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Voices from Iraq

Jan-16-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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Anchorage Daily News

The Daily News has invited Alaska troops serving in the Middle East to write us. Stryker brigade 1st Lt. Darrell Stepter, with Fort Richardson's 4-23 Infantry Regiment, writes about how his platoon grew from nine to 22 soldiers shortly after arriving in Iraq and how they quickly learned to work together.

... Our first patrol was very rough. Nothing bad happened, but it was the first time my platoon had ever been together. ... On my first patrol I did not know what to expect, where I was, where I was going, or even all of my soldiers' names. The key thought that went through my mind was "what string of idiotic and unfortunate events in my life led to this?" I was convinced I was going to die, or worse, something stupid was going to happen that I wouldn't have a solution for and one of my soldiers would die. [...]


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