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<p>FORT STEWART, Georgia — The U.S. Army is sending more than 3,000 Fort Stewart soldiers to Europe to help assure American allies in the region and deter Russian aggression in Ukraine.</p> <p>Officials at the southeast Georgia Army post said Tuesday that soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division will deploy next month.</p>

Two email vignettes written by an insider interviewing troops from the 3rd ID. First Email I spent all day yesterday interviewing the members of the 3-15 Infantry. They fought a two-day battle to hold objectives CURLEY, LARRY and MOE. These were each main east-west road intersections along the north-south MSR into the center of Baghdad. The two tank-heavy TFs of the 2nd BCT had attacked north along the main road to seize the heart of Baghdad. It was TF 3-15's mission to seize the intersections (large cloverleaf complexes) and retain them in order to allow movement of the ammunition and...

Rag-Tag Iraqi Troops Surrender to Marines By RAVI NESSMAN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER .c The Associated Press SOUTHERN IRAQ (AP) - Hordes of Iraqi soldiers, underfed and overwhelmed, surrendered Friday in the face of a state-of-the-art allied assault. These were not the fabled and well-fed Republican Guardsmen who anchor Saddam's defense - these were a rag-tag army, many of them draftees, often in T-shirts. Their handguns and small arms could accomplish little against opposing forces wielding 21st century weaponry. ``I kind of felt sorry for them,'' said one U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity. ``A lot of them looked...

Kuwait correspondants from sources within the United States 3rd Infantry Division on the Kuwait-Iraq border: The surrender of the Iraqi 11th and 51st divisions are under negoiation with the United States military and is expected in the coming hours. The two division represent at least 2/3 of the Iraq army in the South.