Army Makes Training Base Feel Like Iraq
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With faux insurgents, fake bombs, real concrete barriers and a little city of tents, training to prepare Reservists and National Guard members for Iraq is becoming more realistic.
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The Army is trying to teach all of its soldiers to recognize symptoms of brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder &#151; and not be ashamed of seeking treatment for the signature injuries of the Iraq war.
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In Iraq, a new strategy pushes soldiers out of large bases and into communities.
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U.S. forces in Iraq suffered one of their worst days on Wednesday, with 11 soldiers reported killed as a high-level panel in Washington said training of Iraqi forces should speed up so that U.S. troops can withdraw.
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The pressures on the Army are apparent in the Third Infantry Division, which is preparing to go back to Iraq for a third tour.
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SAMARRA, Iraq, Dec. 21 -- Mortar rounds land outside Patrol Base Uvanni so often that soldiers inside barely lift their heads when another deafening thump disturbs the clear afternoon air.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq -- The race started like any other, with the pop of a gun and the slap of sneakers on hard mud. The sun had begun to peek above the purple horizon, and the air was New England cold.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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Despite stepped-up training, the readiness of the Iraqi military to operate independently of U.S. forces has decreased since President Bush's new strategy was launched in January, according to the White House progress report released yesterday.
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Australian Army Captain Piero Bertocchi takes Iraqi soldiers on a training run in northern Iraq. Captain Bertocchi is one of 38 Australians who are training recruits in the new Iraqi army.
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The U.S. Army is showing growing   signs of strain as it tries to sustain troop levels in Iraq and   Afghanistan, including stress on soldiers, lower unit   readiness, equipment shortfalls and money worries.
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New statistics provided by Iraqi officials appear to mirror the geographic pattern of the American troop increase.
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The President learned something on his surprise Iraq trip: troop morale in Anbar Province may be high, but they are tired
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WASHINGTON - US troops sweeping through Fallujah yesterday believe they have found a training centre for the insurgent group headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The Iraqi military academy that NATO plans to set up outside Baghdad should be able to train about 1,000 officers a year, the alliance's top commander in Europe said Thursday.
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In Iraq on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld witnessed a wide variety of special forces, commando, police and regular military units that are learning how to take over the fight against the resilient insurgency.
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For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.