An Iraqi police man inspects a destroyed vehicle following a road side bomb in the northeastern city of Baquba. Photo AFPSoldiers Train For New Mission: Leaving Iraq -- Stars And Stripes
FORT STEWART, Ga. — It was just another day for the U.S. Army in war-weary northern Iraq: insurgents in Mosul, political turf battles in Kirkuk, an attack on the Beiji oil refinery in Salah ad Din.
All needed to be dealt with immediately. And all by an infantry unit that wasn’t even in Iraq.
The recent war-gaming took place half a world away as the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division wound down a two-week exercise to prepare to go to Iraq this fall. The first Army combat unit to invade Baghdad in 2003, the division will be among the last military units to leave as the U.S. withdraws its troops, overseeing the transition from combat to departure in northern Iraq.
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