I met Jeff Emanuel at FOB Falcon in Baghdad last May.  I was on my third three-mont trip.  He was on his first trip and he only had the ability to operate for a little more than a week.

I like to think I convinced him that he needed to spend weeks if not months in Iraq to understand it--but that would be giving myself too much credit.

He's set to embark again.  Hopefully we will cross paths again when I head back to Iraq in a few weeks.

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