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kdmiller45 says:I was at camp Seitz from Dec 2004 till Feb
2005, Mortarville, took the life a a friend
of mine SGT Melvin Mora
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lupus1dld says:
My son was sent to Iraq with his Army National Guard unit January 1 2003. He is resigning in November. Soon after arriving in Iraq he became disgusted with the unit's sitting around doing nothing - um, they claimed it was too dangerous. My son is not one to dink around when action is needed. So he took himself from al Taji down to Baghdad and volunteered to support the 1st Cav at a triage clinic known as LOG BASE Seitz. He had first-level EMT training and while he was at Seitz he took more and more classes (on 'down time'?). I read his many commendations from the 1st Cav and notice that he proudly wears his 1st Cav patch, awarded for service with memo (means he can wear it always on his uniform). He looked at the once beautiful country around Baghdad that is now a blown up, scorched, unliveable hotbed of terrorism and decided that the war stank just like the land. Of death. In Baghdad they were under constant 'Code Red', mortaring and whatever else was handy to lob. There was a space of about a mile between the walls of the clinic compound and a residential area. Iraqi families would bring their chairs out and "have a nice Sunday get-together" practicing firing over the walls on American troops. It was totally nerve-wrackingly jarring to work under those conditions; at times his clinic would save the life of a member of those same families. When my son came home in April, the Army National Guard laid him off his job as a mechanic for them. I suggested he move on in the medical field as he seems so very talented. His eyes clouded over and he said "I would mom, if there were any place at all where I wouldn't have to see children injured or dying."
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