Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune and...
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