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In Iraq, two soldiers call their wood shop home

Jan-26-2010 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Sgt. Douglas Lambe spent two deployments in Iraq as a combat engineer. Months on the road searching for bombs gave him plenty of time to think.

“I knew if I kept on doing that,” the Fort Lewis soldier said, “I’d die sooner or later.”

But the 27-year-old Richland native likely didn’t envision spending his third deployment working alongside a Stadium High School graduate in the wood shop at a military base in Iraq’s Diyala province.

Lambe and Spc. Charlie Wells work and live in a building crammed with scraps of wood, hacksaws, table saws, other tools, cans of paint and jugs of varnish.

They create tables, plaques, podiums and signs – pretty much anything required by their Stryker comrades in the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.

via thenewstribune.com

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