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According to Private First Class Clifton Hicks, who served in Iraq with the First Cavalry from October 2003, only six months after Baghdad was occupied by American troops, until July 2004, search and avoid missions began early and always had the backing of a senior non-commissioned officer or a staff sergeant. “Our platoon sergeant was with us and he knew our patrols were bullshit, just riding around to get blown up,” he explained. “We were at Camp Victory at Baghdad International Airport. A lot of the time we’d leave the main gate and come right back in another gate to the base where there’s a big PX with a nice mess hall and a Burger King. We’d leave one guy at the Humvee to call in every hour, while the others stayed at the PX. We were just sick and tired of going out on these stupid patrols.”
BTW Clifton Hicks (who’s my son) denies that he was stationed at Camp Victory, which he claims was occupied by wimps and weasels. He was stationed at Camp Slayer, a far more macho place from which to abscond to the Burger King & PX. Clifton, trained as a Abrams tank driver, was assigned to be driven around Baghdad with his head sticking out of the roof of an un-armored Humvee in order to draw fire.
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