News Tribune reporter Sean Cockerham and The Olympian photographer Tony Overman covered local troops in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, for several weeks in Sept.-Oct. 2006. For news stories and photographs, visit our Military section
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Camp Buehring, Kuwait -- It feels like living under a heat lamp. Or like standing in front of a jet engine pushing out superheated air. The temperature in Kuwait is well over 100 degrees and it's expected to be the same in Baghdad.
Tony and I arrived at Camp Buehring after a 23-hour flight from Tacoma followed by a three-plus hour bus ride through the desert. It was about 5 a.m. by the time we, and the Fort Lewis soldiers we're traveling with, hit our cots. Some of the soldiers had been up for 36 hours.
Kuwait feels like an alien land, but it's safe enough. Within hours, though, Tony and I are getting on a flight to Baghdad International Airport. Baghdad is where body army and helmets will be added on top of the searing heat.
We first have to go to the Green Zone and get our press credentials. Then we will embed with a unit of Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers who are patrolling neighborhoods in the capital.
-- Sean Cockerham
