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it is a small team of soldiers work

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hard to process mail for service

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members at contingency operating base

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basra in southern Iraq . The soldiers

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from the 8th of the 408 postal company

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were sent from talil to sustain and

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support the growing US presence in

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Bosnia . This is a unique postal unit

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because all other postal units are

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doing , they're supervising contractors

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were actually here on the ground doing

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the postal work . This is one of the

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only post offices left in theater . The

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bahsrah Postal team provides a valuable

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service so other units can focus on

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their mission . Not only do they say

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this time , but there , they're helpful .

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They provide us with any postal

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assistance that we need . If we did not

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come to get our mail from here , we

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have to go all the way to Buka . The

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mail doesn't arrive every day , but

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when it does every day that we get mail

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is the best day of the week and it's

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because our soldiers get a little piece

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of home brought in by these guys here

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as they unload the context is the

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package is piled higher and higher and

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higher until service members arrived to

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pick up their units mail . What I just

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like supporting soldiers . It makes me

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feel like I'm doing something really

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important over here regardless of why ,

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why we might , I still have the

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post office is the greatest bahsrah

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Post office is the greatest boxer

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Postal team's workspace has grown from

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a small office behind esko barriers in

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a trailer to the location it has today ,

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reporting with the one 23rd m pad for

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the third expeditionary sustainment

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command . I'm specialist roger .