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Article: Staging security in a theater of war: personnel sent to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure should be trained thoroughly on the physical and mental challenges they will face.
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Iraq is a country of extreme beauty, but it also presents extreme challenges, both natural and manmade. Thus, arriving in Baghdad can be a physical and psychological shock and personnel should be prepared. It starts with how the plane lands. As a defensive maneuver, approaching planes typically corkscrew down to a landing strip that appears to be directly below where the planes began their descent. The drop can be harrowing as well as nauseating, and stepping off the plane with a full airsickness bag in hand is not the best way to start an assignment.
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