--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick question - when will the 4th Infantry get > there? > > (I'm probably living closer to Ft. Hood than anyone > else, with the > possible exception of Adam, at least as the crow > flies, so I should > probably be *up* on this more than anyone else -- > but aside from knowing > they shipped out last week, I know very little.) > > Julia
Julia - the current reports are that the 4th Infantry will not be ready to engage in combat until late April. Right now the 3rd Mechanized Division and the 7th Armored Cavalry Regiment are engaged in combat in Iraq at the front lines, while a brigade of the 82nd Airborne is protecting lines of supply and the 173rd Airborne Brigade has landed in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force is also close to Baghdad. Where is the 101st, though? That's a question that has been bugging me. Somewhere in the west? It's a light infantry division - strategically, not tactically, mobile. Its Apaches do give it significant striking power though. Rick Atkinson of the Washington Post was embedded with them, but none of his reports for the Post have been "From the front" stories the last few days. What's going on there, I wonder. Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
