From: jeff 

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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