The Right Man in the Right Place?
Via Joe Galloway and FB. Just me proud enough to share here. Unfortunately the story is via Those people?
Last U.S. base in Iraq prepares to turn out the lights
CAMP ADDER, Iraq — The young Army officer who’s in charge of logistics at the last U.S. base in Iraq is a Sudanese refugee, one of the “lost boys” who fled their war-ravaged homeland in the mid-1990s.
His staff sergeant survived a deadly improvised-explosives attack during his third tour here in 2005, then returned for two more.
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“We are the ones that are going to sort of turn out the lights and close out Iraq,” said Capt. David Moses, 30, who was born in South Sudan and fled the civil war there as an adolescent, eventually landing in Utah.
ETA: Joe busted my chops some about McClatchy and Dakota Meyer. I still think that story was , at best, “damning with faint praise”. Gonna keep me skeptical.
Category: Geezer Alert!
Some of the Dinka I worked with here in KC are some really good people and it is good to see that some of them are serving their adopted home in the military. I knew some of the older guys I knew wanted to join the army or at least work as terps in Iraq.
sometimes there are those perfect moments. Sometimes they’re too perfect for people to believe.