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813 FALLUJAHIAN MEN JOIN IRAQI ARMY

The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following press release:

Eight hundred and thirteen Iraqi men enlisted in the Iraqi Army during a three-day recruiting drive here by a Mobile Recruiting Team from the Ministry of Defense.

The 813 recruits were part of a larger recruiting effort to enlist 1,000 Iraqi men from the Al Anbar Province into the Iraqi Army.

"The overall goal is to enlist 5,000 recruits from Al Anbar Province by the end of October, but they are getting recruited in groups of 1,000," said Capt. Selden B. Hale, a recruiting advisor traveling with the MRT and assigned to the Headquarters Transition Team under Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq.

One thousand recruits is ...

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