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CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq -- Riding shotgun in an up-armored Humvee as a convoy NCO in charge through the volatile streets of Tikrit, Iraq, and riding in a city fire truck back home in Meadeville, Pa., are two very different experiences.
However, they are both experiences that belong to Army Reserve SFC Darren Hall, a medic assigned to the 402nd Civil Affairs (CA) Battalion, based in Tonawanda, N.Y. "I've been a fire fighter for Meadville for the last eight years," said Hall, who has been in Iraq for close to a year. "The fire department has been very supportive of me through my training and two deployments," he said.
Based at Camp Speicher, Hall and his fellow civil affairs Soldiers are on the road in convoys several days a week, logging more than 165 convoys in their area of operations...
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