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AN NUMANIYAH, Iraq (Aug. 12, 2005) -- On June 9, 2005, the forward deployed 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing sent an 11-man Military Transition Team (MiTT), to An Numaniyah, Iraq, a training base in southeastern Iraq. The team’s mission is to stand up the 2nd Brigade of the 7th Iraqi Army Division and serve as advisory staff in the training of the 1st Battalion. The MiTT concept is modeled after the combined arms platoons that were employed in Vietnam from 1967 to 1974. Using this model, Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq formed three specialized teams to embed with the New Iraqi Army...

These are e-mails from a friend who went to Iraq to help rebuild the city of An-Numaniyah. He works for Contrack Intl, and is the Senior Site Constuction Manager.I asked if I could share his e-mails so we would have some idea what is going on in the rebuilding of Iraq and how the people feel about us being there. April 11, 2004 Good day to you all at home, (wife's name here) had mentioned you all had a nice service yesterday,(Easter) Thank you for mentioning me again. Tell all of our members I think of them often and pray...