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To say their airbase post office in

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Baghdad is a busy place today . All

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military personnel have to leave Iraq

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by December 31 and the only way to get

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your gear home is to carry it or to

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mail it . They do maybe three times

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maybe four times more male than we

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usually do . A lot of gorilla trunks .

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Very tired of those . Over the last

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couple weeks , this post office has

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averaged about a ton of letters ,

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packages and trunks going out every day .

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That's as much mail as a large

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stateside base might handle but instead

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of the 30 or more clerks a large

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mailroom would have say there's post

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office only has six airmen Their last

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scheduled day of businesses November

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five . So the mailing rushes on it's

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been getting exponentially more busy as

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each day goes by . And yeah it gets

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closer to the last minute . We're going

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to get all the people that were waiting

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until the very last day so I'm not

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expecting to close on time have

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november Air Force Master Sergeant Gene

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Taylor . Say their Airbase Iraq . Uh

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huh .