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Article: IRAQI POLICE EAGER TO LEARN

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April 15, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Defense's Central Command issued the following news feature article:

By Sgt. 1st Class Clinton Wood1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division Back home in Brainerd, Minn., this Minnesota Army National Guardsman Pfc. Adam Starry tends to lawns as a landscaper. Here in this 5,000-year-old city of about 20,000 people, Starry is helping to train several Iraqi police officers.

Starry, of Company B, 194th Combined Arms Battalion, and 15 of his fellow soldiers are experiencing what it is like being an Iraqi police officer in a city that is still a hotbed of insurgent activity. They form a police transition team whose task is to train the Iraqi police on how to take ...

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