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Marines Build Lasting Relationship With Iraqi Police

Posted in CentCom, ME, Troops, news, tagged , on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

by Pfc. Jerry Murphy
RCT-1 PAO
RAMADI, Iraq (Nov. 13, 2008) — Currently on the battalion’s first deployment to Iraq, Marines of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, have found themselves living and working among Iraqi police daily on a forward operating base just outside Ramadi, Iraq. Although some of the Marines [...]

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Basrah Gets New Fresh Water Source

Posted in CentCom, ME, news, tagged , on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

by A. Al Bahrani
Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
BASRAH, Iraq (Nov. 9, 2008) — Two million Basrah residents will soon have a more dependable source of household water for cleaning, cooking, bathing, and washing. A $5 million project, scheduled to [be] complete[d] next summer, will connect permanent power to the Sweetwater Canal Pump [...]

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Founders’ Daily Quote: 19 Nov 08

Posted in daily quote on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it [...]

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