Goodbye Iraq: Last Us Combat Brigade Heads Home

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, was officially designated the last combat brigade to leave Iraq under President Barack Obama's plan to end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31. Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana joined the troops on their final journey out of the country.

By Rebecca Santana

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Goodbye Iraq: Last Us Combat Brigade Heads Home

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait -- A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the predawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history.

For the troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a ...

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