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Combat Outpost Cobra

Feb-22-2010 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Another article from The News Tribune re: the 3/2 SBCT, Primitive outpost gets some upgrades.

COMBAT OUTPOST COBRA, Iraq – As the American military shutters bases across Iraq, one outpost in northwestern Diyala province will double in size over the next few months.

Combat Outpost Cobra was scheduled to close when soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment arrived in August. But the squadron – part of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division – has been given the assignment of joint American-Arab-Kurd security checkpoints designed to ease ethnic tension.

Construction crews are adding space for another 700 service members and contractors at the maze of Hesco barriers and run-down concrete buildings. But brigade officials face a tall task in building up Cobra: The unit’s preventive medicine officer warned against major potential health risks in a September assessment, and the outpost’s infrastructure is years behind its larger counterparts.


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