Army Orders 300 Soldiers Back To Iraq...

Associated Press Lolita C. Baldor August 14, 2006 at 06:37 PM
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About 300 Alaska-based soldiers sent home from Iraq just before their unit's deployment was extended last month must now go back, the Army said Monday, setting up a wrenching departure for troops and families who thought their service there was finished.

The soldiers -- all from the 172nd Stryker Brigade -- are among the 380 troops who had gotten home to Fort Wainwright when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the unit to serve four more months. The remaining 80 will not have to return to Iraq.

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