.Return of a Season
"[Note: So I had a previous post that went by this title, but this once touches on it in more depth, enjoy. Also in case any of my unit higher-ups are reading, this article has been OpSec Approved by Battalion]
It is April, and Baqouba is reported as a major hot spot of terrorist activity and is named an Al-Qaeda in Iraq stronghold. AQI holds the residents of Baqouba in a strangle hold of fear and oppression. Coalition forces enact Operation Arrowhead Ripper, a major offensive through the Diyala River Valley to reclaim it. That was 2007, and at that time Coalition Forces not show their faces without expecting a shot being fired, or an explosion of some sort going off. It truly was an unclaimed portion of the Country.
I arrived in Baqouba in August of 2007, after Arrowhead Ripper to finish securing Baqouba and relieve the unit (3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division) so that they could redeploy home. It was an interesting task for me and my fellow soldiers as we had just arrived from Baghdad in the hot spot neighborhood of Doura."
False Motivation
It is April, and Baqouba is reported as a major hot spot of terrorist activity and is named an Al-Qaeda in Iraq stronghold. AQI holds the residents of Baqouba in a strangle hold of fear and oppression. Coalition forces enact Operation Arrowhead Ripper, a major offensive through the Diyala River Valley to reclaim it. That was 2007, and at that time Coalition Forces not show their faces without expecting a shot being fired, or an explosion of some sort going off. It truly was an unclaimed portion of the Country.
I arrived in Baqouba in August of 2007, after Arrowhead Ripper to finish securing Baqouba and relieve the unit (3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division) so that they could redeploy home. It was an interesting task for me and my fellow soldiers as we had just arrived from Baghdad in the hot spot neighborhood of Doura."
False Motivation
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