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A convoy of US Army vehicles travers south on a highway headed towards Kirkuk, Iraq. Anti-aircraft fire streams through the air, targeted not at a specific aircraft, but into the air arbitrarily. The convoy is part of a large movement with the mission to secure the city. Only a few weeks after the initial invasion in March of 2003, Coalition forces have begun the process of gaining control of the central Iraq, with armored forces moving in from the south and special operations and airborne infantry assaulting from the west and north.  Situated within this convoy, a vehicle holding a team of USAF Special Warfare operators is a hum of activity, one driving and the other operating a massive collection of radios and networks, sometimes called a net. One net, connected to the Army unit that this team has been attached to, has a constant stream of location confirmations and details about locals and contact with the enemy. The others are either links to aircraft overhead, or networks with

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