American soldiers at Tallil Air Base near Nasiriya prepared to leave for Kuwait. Those withdrawing are still heading out to secure roads, protect colleagues and ward off insurgent attacks. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Waiting to Leave, Last U.S. Troops in Iraq Stay Vigilant -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — Every other American soldier in Iraq, it seemed, was strapping duffel bags to the roofs of armored trucks, dismantling bases and joining the convoys hurtling south through the desert, toward the Kuwaiti border and the promise of home.
But for a handful of the last American forces in Baghdad, the war was not over, yet.
At 8 a.m. on Thursday, they piled into hulking bomb-resistant vehicles and set off through the streets of a city that once lay at the heart of America’s war here, but has now been all but left behind by the military. Their job today was to look for explosives in fields and canals. Clear the way for departing convoys. Meet with Iraqi Army officers. Patrol a once-bloody scrap of the countryside, perhaps for the last time.
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Update: US Soldiers Close Bases, Head Out of Iraq -- Voice of America
My Comment: The goal for the last remaining U.S. troops in Iraq is simple .... do not be the last U.S. soldier to be injured or killed in that country.
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