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 _Today I got a taste of just how hard it is for Fort Lewis soldiers in Baghdad to communicate with home by email.
The only Internet access for most of the soldiers I’ve met here from the 1st Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment is at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation center at Camp Liberty.
It’s about a half mile walk from the tents where these soldiers live. Tony and I walked out to the MWR today to check out the Internet access for ourselves. Our wait for a computer was about a half hour (it’s more like an hour during evening peak times after missions.)
But the real issue is the slow Internet connection.
Soldiers can only use one of the computers for 30 minutes if there is a line, and there almost always is. The connection is so slow that it took over 15 minutes just to log on to email. Then it took the rest of the allotted half hour just to read and reply to a single email.
It’s not a big deal for Tony and me. The News Tribune rented us a satellite modem to send our stories and pictures back home. But the soldiers here in Baghdad don’t have satellite modems. I understand the Internet situation is a lot better in Mosul, where most of the Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers in Iraq are stationed.
-- Sean Cockerham
