NATION BUILDING IN MESOPOTAMIA: U.S. MILITARY ENGINEERS IN IRAQ
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U.S. military engineers to the monumental challenges that seem to arise every day. From planning the reconstruction of Iraq's national infrastructure to working with Iraqi doctors to get power to hospitals in downtown Baghdad, the response of U.S. military engineers has consistently been "Let us try." This is just one snapshot of a small group of military engineers who served in Kuwait and Iraq from January to July 2003 as part of a larger military and civilian team charged with the reconstitution of an entire nation.IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 2
The motto of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is "Essayons," which is French for "Let us try." At every turn during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Essayons has epitomized the response of
The forward engineering support team (FEST) in Iraq. The FEST provides engineering planning, analytical capabilities, solutions and reach back for the Department of Defense.
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