Communicating and cooperating with the Iraqi Army is one of the main challenges members of the Pennsylvania National Guard's 56th Stryker Brigrade are facing during deployment. Brigrade members are about 6 months into a 9 month tour in Iraq. Scott Detrow, who reports for WDUQ, WITF in Harrisburg and other Pennsylvania Public Radio stations, is embedded with the brigade for three weeks. For this story, he accompanied a platoon, plus some Iraqi soldiers as they searched for buried weapons. Listen to the report.
Photos: top left: Sergeant Michael Raley outside Iraqi Army barracks; center left: Soldiers wait with Iraqi Captain Abbas; bottom left: Captain Abbas questions Iraqi woman.
Listen to an interview with Brigade Commander Colonel Marc Ferraro
Listen to a report by Scott Detrow as he undergoes training at a camp in Georgia to prepare to be embedded with the Stryker Brigade
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