At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists have been court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own mission to Iraq. The soldiers said they needed the vehicles, and parts stripped from one, to deliver fuel to Iraq, but their former battalion commander said Sunday the troops should at least have returned the vehicles to their original units. Members of the 656th Transportation Company based in Springfield, west of Columbus, said they needed the equipment to deliver fuel that was needed by U.S. forces in Iraq for equipment from helicopters to tanks. The reservists took two tractor-trailers and stripped parts from a five-ton truck that had been abandoned in Kuwait by units that had already moved into Iraq, according to one of the reservists, Darrell Birt of Columbus. Full Story
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