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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Sep 17, 2006 07:26pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 6, 2006 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With the halfway point of my deployment with the Iraqi Army (IA) behind me, it is time to look to the future and ensure our last four months here are well spent. Quickly I will recap my situation. This series of articles is from a unique perspective, one that nearly everyone in the military and the even more of the masses in the States could not even begin to fathom. The mission of the MiTTs, that of training a foreign military, has historically been a mission for Special Forces.
Based on the well-published fact that the Special Operations Forces are quite busy these days (while taking the lead in the war on terrorism) someone else needed to pick up the mission of training the Iraqi Army. Small groups of conventional forces are currently accomplishing that mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom. I became one of those lucky few assigned with the mission of training the Iraqi Army. I have been assigned to MiTT 8, tasked with training the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force (2-3-1 IA). I currently serve as the Intelligence Advisor and the Operations Advisor for Team 8. I am Captain B. J. Grass, USMC and what follows is just a brief look at my story. |
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