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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FOB Marez, Mosul __ Sgt. Emmet Cullen was looking through his photos the other night and did a double take.
“I knew I recognized that guy,” Cullen yelled.
It was a picture of Fort Lewis soldiers posing with a group of smiling Iraqi policemen. Cullen took it over a year ago when he was in Iraq with the 1-25 Lancers from Fort Lewis.
Cullen’s current unit, the Lightning scout platoon from Fort Lewis’ 3rd Brigade, had just busted that same cop for working with the insurgency here in Mosul.
Other soldiers tell the story of recently capturing two insurgents who used to work for the Americans.
A sergeant recognized one of the insurgents as a guy who had been a barber at a U.S. base in Mosul during 3rd brigade’s last Iraq deployment two years ago. Soldiers say another one of the captured insurgents used to deliver pizza at that same base, FOB Patriot, during the 2004 deployment.
I’m told it was more common to have Iraqis working at U.S. bases back then. Now most of the workers on the base seem to be either Turkish or Filipino.
-- Sean Cockerham
