This is my unit boys.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/wo...t.html?_r=2&hp


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.

“Another day at the office,” said Staff Sgt. James Grimes as he and his men set off for one of the last such patrols.

It might have been just another day, if not for the backdrop of a withdrawal that has already cut the number of American forces to 7,500 on four bases, with all expected to be gone within weeks. The soldiers who will linger until the end will still be heading out to secure roads, protect other American forces and ward off insurgent attempts to inflict casualties on departing Americans.

Most of the convoys have made

Shit...


That's crazy dude, I'd feel like Davy Crocket at the Alamo if our guys were the last ones in country. Are the nasty guard dirty birds still doing fob hopping over there? or did they beat feet for Kuwait already?