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To: Les H who wrote (4667)1/9/2003 11:53:15 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29600
 
And in Georgia, two combat brigades from Army's Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division (mechanised) were about to join the unit's other combat brigade in the Persian Gulf region.

Soldiers from the Third Infantry have been training for months near Iraq, manoeuvring their Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles in the Kuwaiti desert.

If the area becomes a war zone, military analysts said, the unit will play a leading role.

The decisive element here, I think, is going to be the Third Mech,'' said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a non-profit defence policy group.

All those Abrams and Bradleys showing up on the outskirts of Baghdad, that is going to convince the Iraqi people that Saddam's end is at hand.''

globalsecurity.org