Six hundred to 800 fuel trucks laden with gasoline, diesel, kerosene and propane roll in from Turkey each morning for delivery to gas stations and depots across Nineveh, Dohuk and Irbil provinces.
The operation is complicated by black market activity, profiteering, ethnic tensions, the constant threat of roadside bombs and ambushes, and garden variety crime..
The soldiers working at Foxtrot are from the brigade's 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment. .....gunners have been transformed into infantrymen.
Which is not all bad, said Pfc. Alfonso Pulido.
.....soldiers have to stop traffic on the highway and walk among the cars looking for anything suspicious.
Most of the time the people smile and wave....offer him candy, cigarettes...
He and his buddies say they like that what they do directly helps the Iraqis.
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Related:
8 'Devil Siphon’ stopping Iraqi fuel black market ~ 1/5th Field Artillery Bn, 1st Infantry Division ~ "The Devil's Brigade" ~ Army News Service | 2/06/04 | Pfc. J. H. French
Stryker Brigade, ping!
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