Troubled Iraqi Areas May See More Troops
AP (via Washington Post) - May 29, 2003
Senior leaders and logistics experts in the 3rd Infantry say most of the division is not ready for combat. They complain that they have received almost no spare parts to repair damaged tanks and armored personnel carriers - what the military calls Class IX supplies - since they left Kuwait on March 22.
"He is going to get U.S. soldiers needlessly killed if he expects us to go into battle," a senior noncommissioned officer in the 3rd Infantry said of McKiernan.
U.S. Soldier Killed, Five Wounded in Iraq
AP (via Washington Post) - June 5, 2003
The assault came a day after more than 1,500 soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division - which helped fight the war and take Baghdad - moved into Fallujah and surrounding areas in central Iraq. Their mission is to quell increasing attacks on U.S. occupying forces in the region.