From: "Mark" 

"...and maybe a reporter pushing a slant."

Or maybe it's the administration making the subtle point that most of Iraq is
safe?

"jeff"  wrote in message
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> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
>> I  read that this is the first time this unit has been deployed overseas
>> since WW2. Looks like they are going for bodies and not experience
>>
>> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm
>>
>> According to the Sept. 20 NY Times, the week prior, the US Army Reserve
>> announced that 800 soldiers from the Rochester, NY-based 98th Division
>> would be deployed in the forthcoming nine weeks to Iraq. The overseas
>> deployment would be the unit's first since World War II. In Iraq, the
>> unit will assume a lead role in training the New Iraqi Army.
> You know... that unit could be filled with vetrans of Desert Storm,
> Bosnia, Kosovo... And odds are it has a fairly decent percentage of troops
> that started on active duty.
>
> Basing anything history of the unit as a whole is absurd - it was also a
> combat infantry division in WW II - it's not like it's the same people you
> know.
>
> Another thing that the 104th Div (TNG) (it's West Coast counterpart) does
> is run ROTC summer camps for trainee officers. The 98th probably does
> something similar. Until I got called up a couple years back, I was being
> recruited by the 104th.
>
> Again - this appears to be a case of the unit being a good fit for the
> mission - and maybe a reporter pushing a slant.

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