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“When our platoon of combat engineers returned to COS Marez, in Mosul, Iraq after it had been turned over to the Iraq Army, we were stuck there for several hours. During that time, our platoon explored the now abandoned areas of the COS while we waited. Me and two buddies were walking back to our MRAPs and saw an American flag sitting in a trash pile next to a dumpster where it had been dumped by the IA when they took over. The three of us immediately rescued the flag, folded it, and kept it with us until we returned to the States, where we could give it a proper burial. Pictured here is PFC Hamlin and PFC Perez, two combat engineers with 2PLT 4STB 4-1AD, folding the flag for safe transportation through the rest of deployment and back to the United States” user submit from Dan
