For our series of conversations this week about Iraq and the U.S. military, we've reached Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl at Fort Riley, Kansas.

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Now, right now, of course, there are brigades who are scheduled to leave Iraq, to return to their home bases, whether it's Fort Riley, Kansas or Konigsberg, Germany.

NPR: Bush Expected to Announce Increase of Troops

At Fort Riley, Kansas, U.S. soldiers training for a mission in Iraq stopped briefly last week to attend a memorial for Sgt. 1st Class John Scott Stephens, an adviser who had been killed in Iraq.

NPR: Training the Trainers at Fort Riley

One of William Riley's clients recently called the Fort Worth, Texas, financial adviser wondering if she should donate to a new church in her community.

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