Mosul -- ....getting mail to the troops at the palace is a 20-minute drive through often-heavy traffic. Every trip through the city of 1.8 million is a combat operation, requiring several vehicles and security.
Camp Freedom, has heat and power and bunks with mattresses, and in pretty much every way the shelters beat the big tents the soldiers lived in at Pacesetter.
Sgt. Joshua McKeown, who rates the palace camp as superior to the conditions he found in Bosnia, had his own standard.
"I walked around in my socks last night," he said. "That's living."
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Stryker Brigade, arrives in Mosul...to Christmas mail, mattresses, and mud (+ internet cafes, espresso bars and Cuban cigars), ping!
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