Part II: Welcome to Iraq, and long separation (part 2 of 7)

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Long deployment begins
Guardsmen arrive in Iraq, loved ones adjust


Part II: Welcome to Iraq, and long separation
By SHARON COHEN - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Aug 6, 2008 6:11:50 EDT

The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out.

“Where are you?” she asked.

“I am where I need to be,” he answered cryptically, not wanting to disclose his exact location in Iraq. He probably would have waited to call home to Minnesota, but April 8, 2006, was special — it was Katie’s 26th birthday.

Kriesel was at Camp Fallujah, just east of the city where U.S. contractors had been hanged from a bridge, where Marines had battled insurgents in some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Soon after his arrival, Kriesel saw a tent near his living quarters that had been hit by enemy mortar fire, twisting the metal support beams and shredding the canvas.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_longdeployment_080508/



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