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Article: Marines Cross Tigris River in Amphibious Assault Vehicles.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 8, 2003
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By Patrick Peterson, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 8--OUTSIDE BAGHDAD -- After hundreds of miles of highway travel, U.S. Marines Monday finally used their amphibious assault vehicles the way they were intended -- floating across a tributary of the Tigris River to take up positions near Rashid Airport, east of downtown Baghdad.
Like a row of giant, olive-green elephants, the amphibious Amtracs roared down the muddy banks of the Diyala River, splashed into the water and lumbered out on the other side.
"Usually we do it in the ocean," said Amtracker Lance Cpl. Casey Mattox, 22, a reservist from ...