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Excerpted from a signed email forwarded by a buddy in the National Guard:

Back here on Dogwood, tensions are running high as well. We have had three mortar attacks this week. Two have managed to land rounds within our little compound in one case injuring 3 soldiers and causing one to run panicking into some concertina wire injuring himself. So far non of my soldiers have been injured, but we are taking more precautions as a result of the recent attacks. One big change is all exterior lights in the compound are now kept off at night so as to prevent the enemy from using them as aiming point. Additionally, soldiers are keeping their body armor and helmets closer to them and we have practices getting everyone to the bunkers several times in the last few days. We are also looking at building sandbag walls around each tent, but that will take us a couple of weeks to complete as we have a lot of tents and soldiers.

Poor kids.