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Sunday August 10, 03 the 405 military of the 811th Infantry Battalion Dej acting within the Italian contingent for "Antica Babilonia" mission of stabilization and reconstruction in Iraq will start their first missions at South East of Nassirya. In their area of responsibility (5,600 km) the Romanian military will act in operations of security support and control of the main localities, operations of protection of main installations and facilities and establishment of fixe and mobile points of traffic control on the main routes of communications.
Since now, the Romanian military performed together with the Italian partners the reconnaissance missions on 80 km deep in the responsibility area, and the Romanian equipment worked in the optimum parameters. In this area there were no threats towards the multinational coalition, the population having no hostile attitude.
The health of the Romanian military is good and their only problem is the temperature (above 50 Celsius degrees).
General Staff