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 LIBERTY, Baghdad -- American soldiers at most major bases in Iraq seem to live in trailers that generally house a couple guys apiece. But Camp Liberty ran out of trailer space when President Bush ordered more troops to Baghdad to try and stop the sectarian violence.
So the Fort Lewis troops here have been living in tents and sleeping on cots. It looks like there are maybe 25 guys living in the tent where Tony and I will be staying for the next week or so.
It’s 9:30 p.m. here and a couple of guys are playing football on a video game system set up in the corner. Others are reading or just listening to their iPods. Most of the cots are empty. Their occupants could be at the gym, grabbing some food, or out in the streets of Baghdad.
Missions outside the wire go 24 hours a day here.
-- Sean Cockerham
