Fort Riley surge brigade returns

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Fort Riley surge brigade returns
By John Milburn - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 22, 2008 15:29:39 EDT

FORT RILEY, Kan. — The news wasn’t good, and it was difficult to avoid. Jennifer Crotts tried to block it out, but checking her e-mail took her to news pages. Frequently, they would report another attack and more dead soldiers.

Her husband is an infantry sergeant returning from Iraq this month. Crotts has lived 15 tense months in Kansas, needing to check her e-mail daily, worried that his messages would stop coming.

“You click on it because you want to know. You have a constant worry on your mind until you talk to him again,” she said.

Her husband, Christopher, lived in an outpost in Baghdad in the Rashid neighborhood. The area had seen little in the way of U.S. presence before the soldiers arrived early in 2007.

Terrorists, insurgents and run-of-the-mill street thugs were in control. The 3,400 soldiers of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division were coming to try to restore order.


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