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Last week 1500 US Soldiers that were stationed in Kuwait were re-deployed to Iraq and their final destination was the Al-Anbar province. I guess training the Iraqi Army at the same time fighting the bad guys was not working out as hoped.
The Iraqi Army had a lot of defections after the Iraqi soldiers were given their paychecks and did not return on their monthly ten day leave. The Iraqi Army trains for 20 days and off for 10 days. That is a lot of time off for 20 days worth of work or I should say training. I think I would have forgotten everything that I had learned in training when I returned. There are other provinces the Iraqi Army is performing poorly I will let you read the article here.