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Entire Army Reserve platoon arrested in Iraq

Published 10/15/04

Filed under: Miscellaneous

First the insurgents penetrated the Green Zone in a big way. Now an entire platoon of Army Reservists was arrested for refusing what they called a “suicide mission” in Iraq.

As reported in The Clarion-Ledger:

A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a “suicide mission” to deliver fuel, the troops’ relatives said Thursday.

The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq � north of Baghdad � because their vehicles were considered “deadlined” or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.

As my wife put it, “Incredible. It’s like the Soviets.”

The Fray

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