In 2010, U.S. military personnel returning from a one-year deployment reported having only one gunfight during that period.
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The claim is an anecdote from a podcast guest about a friend's unit returning in 2010 after a one-year deployment with only one gunfight.
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… "I was in fear for military property and life." "Okay, have a nice day. Take care." Whoa. In the beginning, okay, and then around the end it was, it was different. It was a little different. They drop, they would just drop off stuff. That's guys went back on, like, 2010, and they got, when they got back from their one year deployment, a month, I was like, "How was it?" And I'm like, "Dude, we got one gunfight. We had to do paperwork. What is crazy?" And, like, "Yeah, people drive with their headlights on," and, like, we had to tell them which way we shot. Like, because when search it was, "Pull up," they've just throw 84 and everything. …
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Context. The source passage is the podcast guest's own account of a friend's unit, not independent evidence, and the claim faithfully paraphrases it without adding a figure or scope.
Context. The provided sources cover 2010 troop levels and drawdown timing in Iraq, and deployment and casualty statistics, but none mention gunfight counts or unit-level combat experience reported by returning personnel.[1][2][3][4][6]
Context. NBC's 2010 Marjah report describes a Marine who had 16 firefights in two months, which concerns a different unit and deployment and does not address the claim's referent.[5]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 primary, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Timeline - Invasion, surge, withdrawal; U.S. forces in Iraqreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Facts and Figures on Drawdown in Iraq | whitehouse.govobamawhitehouse.archives.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEPLOYED - NCBI - NIHncbi.nlm.nih.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation ...congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5Life on the front: 'There's no downtime'nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 6United States Forces – Iraq - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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