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Fires Squadron Helps Iraqi Farmers Get Irrigation Water

For the first time in more than four years, water now flows continuously through an irrigation canal (pictured above) near Fira Shia, Iraq that once had barely enough water for farmers to use for subsistence farming. The Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment teamed with local Sunni and Shia tribal leaders, local Iraqi government officials and the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavarly Regiment to solve the problem of getting an adequate amount of irrigation water in canals for the farmers in the Taji area to use prior to the winter planting season.

Source: U.S. Army photo/Capt. Christopher Ellis, Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment





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