
The 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment is still working hard in Mosul, 225 miles north of Baghdad. Commanders said this week that the place has calmed down considerably since January, when it was considered one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq.
One soldier who e-mailed in confirmed that, sort of. “We aren’t getting incoming very often that I know of. But half the time I don’t think they sound the alarm,” he wrote.