Sunday, January 20, 2008

As 'Surge' Deployment Winds Down ...


"The Professionals: As 'Surge' Deployment Winds Down Part 1
By Staff Sgt. Mike Pryor
Part 1 of a two-part series
Most of Sha'ab was still sleeping as a humvee weaved its way through the neighborhood's maze-like streets early one frigid, January morning.
Commanding the patrol was 1st Lt. Austin Dziengelewski's platoon of paratroopers from B Co, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment. The patrol was on their way to a squatter village in the area, where displaced families were living in makeshift tents. With the temperatures dropping below freezing at night, the paratroopers were worried people in the camps might freeze to death. The platoon's mission was to find them and see what help they needed."

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