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The day started like any other.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The day started like any other.(A Soldier's Story: Part VI)

Article Excerpt
I had just made it into the office (a makeshift trailer) to check my e-mail before getting to work. I had stayed up most of the night watching the Rose Bowl with some of the guys, and I was still on a high from the Longhorns' crazy win. It was going to be a great morning. But almost as soon as I'd switched on my computer, I was interrupted: There was word from my company's executive officer of an IED. At first the news didn't strike me as all that strange, because you hear about those with some frequency. Usually it's a false alarm, or sometimes it's some primitive device that couldn't really hurt anybody. But this time was different. There were KIAs. That's when you start to worry.

I headed to the tactical operations center (TOC) to get the scoop. A few weeks earlier, a new battalion had arrived at Forward Operating Base Duke, and it so happened that it was the exact unit I was a member of when I...

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