The following information has not been formally evaluated and is considered to be raw data:
1. Mosul is up north. See
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul
Approximately 220 miles northwest of Iraq. It is up near Turkey, sort of.
2. Movement control sounds like a transportation / logistics job that plans and manages to movement of people and stuff. Matching up transport requests with available cargo movers, trucks, etc.
3. E-mail is an iffy thing. I know it's available, because I swap e-mail with a brother who is in the Marine Corps. Rather not share screen names and the like, though. Don't know what the Army has for it's folks, but if they have connectivity, then they have it. I suspect that if she's in the transport / logiostics business, she'll have Internet and hence e-mail.
4. Care packages are allowed, but the contects are regulated. No booze, no pork, no revealing photos, in the case of a young lady, no undergarments from Frederick's of Hollywood, no non-Muslim religous material. Basically, if the locals cannot or should not have it, our folks CANNOT have it. Would suggest that text in letters be kept 'modest'.
The foregoing is based upon rules in effect in early '03. They have not loosened up.
John L. Gezelius, Lt Col, USAFR (Ret) [as of 3/14/03]
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