That was early 2007, during the surge.
Three deployments over six years in Iraq, including one during the "surge" with intense fighting.
The freshman, Jessica Cheeks, scored 7 points and made 2 steals during the surge.
Marine units accounted for three of the five units hardest hit during the surge.
But Sunnis dominate the region, and during the surge in July the rebels "liberated" a number of towns there.
For the first time since the Gulf war, the entire 82nd Airborne division was deployed during the surge in 2007.
That is less than a third of the number of troops in Iraq during the surge in 2007.
At different times, one to three American battalions were assigned to the city then, compared with 24 battalions in Baghdad during the surge.
Far from the oil resources in the south and the Shiite heartland, the city of Mosul slipped into neglect during the surge last year.
By the same margins as before (sometimes even slightly larger), a majority of Americans favor withdrawal no matter what happened during the "surge".
Many new members who joined during the surge were among the thousands of people who had attended one of her hundreds of public meetings.
