Search For The Soldiers
An operation to recover Tucker and Menchaca was mounted involving 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, as well as fighter and attack aircraft, E-8 JSTARS, Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and dive teams. Coalition forces received 66 tips about the missing soldiers, 18 of them deemed actionable. During the operation one U.S. soldier was killed and 12 were wounded. Coalition troops conducted over a dozen raids killing two insurgents and detaining 78.
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