BCT commander wounded in Iraq shares insights

BCT commander wounded in Iraq shares insights
By John Milburn - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday May 8, 2008 7:16:20 EDT

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Regardless of what happened before he got to Sadr City or what happened after he left, Col. B.D. Farris gives his 15 months in the Baghdad slum good marks.

And that comes from a brigade commander who was shot last May while inspecting a wall designed to keep Iraqis safe.

“From what I saw when I left, yes, the surge worked,” Farris said Wednesday.

Farris, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, was talking to officers studying at Fort Leavenworth. He also was to give a lecture Wednesday night at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

His presentations were part of an effort by Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, commander of Fort Leavenworth, to expose officers to commanders coming out of combat. Caldwell is former commander of the 82nd Airborne.


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