As troops return home, a changing of the Guard
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Increased combat risks and a rosier job picture at home make it harder to build up the ranks.
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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The Black Watch battle group has been set back into its Basra base ahead of the soldiersâ anticipated return to the UK for Christmas.
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Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.
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Some 200 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment arrived back in Britain after spending a month deployed in one of the most violent areas of Iraq.
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Hundreds of  Black Watch troops pull out of Camp Dogwood and return to their base in Basra in southern Iraq.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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The military, so the saying goes, enlists a soldier but re-enlists a family.
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Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment have been reunited with relatives after six months in Iraq. Send us your comments.
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Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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The first batch of Japanese troops has returned home from Iraq to emotional family reunions as the officially pacifist nation wrapped up its most significant military operation since World War II.
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WASHINGTON - Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten...
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Iraqi officials say the first more than 200,000 residents who fled fighting in Falluja are to begin returning home.
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A contingent of Portuguese police returns home after a 15-month tour of duty in southern Iraq.
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The British Ministry of Defense saidSaturday that the Black Watch regiment has completed its mission standing in for US troops in central Iraq and returned to its basein the southern Basra area.
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After handing over security responsibilities, troops will focus on hunting Al Qaeda and training Iraqi soldiers.