Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq

The Washington Post ^ | 5/11/2003 | Barton Gellman

[arjay]

BAGHDAD -- The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms, according to participants.

[risen_feenix]

As I understand it, the 75th is a combat unit. We no longer need that many combat units. The gov't is sending a more cost-effective unit (i.e., no gas-guzzling Bradleys and Abrahms tanks) in it's place. The scientists aren't leaving, but the military contingent is.