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Weeks: Iraq calmed down, you can see the progress
The reservists were in Iraq for seven months, many on their second deployment to the Middle East. The Five Marine Reservists all worked in supply and logistics in their seven month deployment.Weeks, who works in the Maintenance Center on base armoring the vehicles, drove one of the heavy trucks in Iraq she helped build in Albany. "I know the people who work on those vehicles, so I had the utmost confidence in all the vehicles we were using," Weeks said in a television interview last week.. This was Weeks' second deployment to Iraq, and she deployment to Iraq, and she told WALB it is much safer there now for American troops than it was in 2005. "First time we were over there it was normally pretty steady, with incoming and all. But now it's totally calmed down. You see the total progress of what we've made while over there." Sgt. Phillip Harrison of Ft. Valley agrees, saying Iraq is much safer than a few years ago in his first deployment. "It was a lot calmer. A whole lot calmer. No mortar attacks. No real threat to the base." All the Marine Reservists credited the sacrifice of American troops and Iraqi citizens for the improvements in Iraq, and said they were glad to be part of it. The Marine Reservists also noted in Iraq, they saw it snow, but also saw days when it was 120º.
Weeks, a 2002 graduate of ECHS, is daughter of Owen "Bubba" and Barbara Weeks.
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