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Article: Force protection for Baghdad International Airport.
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- FA Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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This article is about 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) Artillery (Div Arty) stability and support operations (SASO) at Baghdad International Airport from the end of major combat operations on 10 May 2003 until the Div Arty redeployed to Fort Stewart, Georgia, in August.
As we go to press, the level of conflict in Iraq has escalated into low-intensity conflict with units facing daily ambushes, infiltrations and deliberate attacks.
This article provides tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) for executing SASO in a more peaceful post-war, nation-building environment than exists in Iraq today.
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