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Iraq blogger let E.M. man do the driving

Feb-12-2006 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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By Whitney Carnahan, Quad Cities On-Line

It's unlikely that a local community college student from East Moline and a former Green Beret blogger would have much in common. But just a year ago, the two met up in the most unlikely place: Iraq.

Michael Yon, 41, had decided in 2005 to go to Iraq as a freelance journalist to report on the war. Self-funded and self-taught, Mr. Yon ended up in Mosul, Iraq, with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla.

It was there he met the student, then Spc. Dale Prickett, who was in charge of driving a Stryker Army vehicle each day.

Mosul, a city of 2 million located in northern Iraq, is split by the Tigris River. The east side is where the wealthy dwell, Mr. Prickett, 23, said. The battalion was based on the west side, where many of the have-nots live.[...]


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