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President Trump’s necessary airstrike on Iran

by Cory Swanson
| July 3, 2025 1:00 AM

On March 21, 2011, I was on duty as the night operations officer at the 1-163rd Infantry headquarters in southern Iraq. 

I received a satellite radio call from my battalion commander, who was leading a night security patrol with one of our units. The lead truck had been hit by an IED and the gunner had been killed. 

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