To stop insurgents from blowing up convoys, he's lined the roads here with American troops.
The attack infuriated Pakistanis and prompted Islamabad to close the Afghan-Pakistan border to military supply convoys.
Jeffrey Buchanan said the withdrawal convoys were a "deliberate operation" that required intense military planning.
At least four incidents have been reported of aid convoys being shot at or near.
Beth's husband, Private E-2 Luigi Pratt, drove Army trucks on convoys through Iraq's Sunni Triangle.
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Fuel and water must be transported by convoys which are often targeted by our adversaries.
"Serving aboard the Arctic convoys must have demanded huge courage and dedication, " he said.
Such fuel convoys are typically escorted by Pakistani military, but these convoys appears to have been undefended.
You've been hearing in the last week about the militia raids on convoys that were heading north.
"These convoys aren't a bunch of guys driving down the road like the Beverly Hillbillies, " he said.
He was deployed to Iraq, where he was in charge of securing convoys, checking roads for IEDs.
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You can set them to concentrate on specific attack modes, patrol, scout, guard zones and form convoys.
There were also checkpoints where we had to stop for passing convoys or to prove our identity.
As convoys of dark cars shuttled along roads closed to other traffic, most attention fell on the diplomacy.
Apple wholesale sheds appear intermittently along the roadside and convoys of interstate trucks wait to go to market.
Mr Helmore has campaigned for many years for those who took part in the convoys to be recognised.
When I am hungry because the supply convoys have been attacked by the enemy, so is everyone else.
Chambers said all convoys are escorted, and there is also air support in areas of high insurgent resistance.
"I can't think of anything that we're not doing right now to better protect our convoys, " Chambers argued.
An option might be to to organise protected convoys but that would require more warships than are available.
Several military convoys carrying troops and ammunition were shepherded in the direction of South Waziristan by security details.
Military convoys, stretching back for miles, chugged after the king, and soldiers ringed the towns where he stayed.
Previously, diplomatic security agents only accompanied U.S. convoys on an "ad hoc" basis.
On other convoys along those same roads, Marissa's husband, Specialist Charlie Bootes, manned a Mark-19 fully automatic grenade launcher.
U.S. officials said aerial surveillance of the site in recent days showed convoys, vehicles and people moving at the camp.
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In Iraq and Afghanistan, however, there are no front lines and road convoys everywhere are among the most vulnerable targets.
While Scott was in Iraq guarding fuel convoys, Monica ran the household on her own with help from her parents.
Women regularly have found themselves in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, whether in supply convoys or in military police units.
Sullivan challenged the idea that U.S. soldiers are not "out there, " saying soldiers constantly travel the roads on retrograde convoys.
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