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I-4 CAV in the News

The soldiers whose work transforming an abandoned college in Baghdad into COP Amanche was the focus of Desires of the Human Heart, Part One and Part Two were featured in the Stars and Stripes on May 17th and in several articles by Jeff Emmanuel published on the Weekly Standard Website.

Read "The Best Ambassadors" and "On Patrol with the Quarter Cav."

Gates of Fire

Kurilla was running when he was shot, but he didn't seem to miss a stride; he did a crazy judo roll and came up shooting.

Read the full Dispatch.