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US Troop In Baghdad: "It Just Feels Like We're Driving Around Waiting To Get Blown Up"...

US Troop In Baghdad: "It Just Feels Like We're Driving Around Waiting To Get Blown Up"...

Army Staff Sgt. Jose Sixtos considered the simple question about morale for more than an hour. But not until his convoy of armored Humvees had finally rumbled back into the Baghdad military base, and the soldiers emptied the ammunition from their machine guns, and passed off the bomb-detecting robot to another patrol, did he turn around in his seat and give his answer.

"Think of what you hate most about your job. Then think of doing what you hate most for five straight hours, every single day, sometimes twice a day, in 120-degree heat," he said. "Then ask how morale is."

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