Troops Practice Street Smarts

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VICTORVILLE - A squad of young Marines armed with M-16 rifles peered cautiously around a wall Monday as a second group prepared for a reconnaissance mission through a neighborhood of abandoned houses.

"If we don't learn how to peek carefully, we could be in real trouble fast,' said Pvt. Ian Stewart, 19, of Sacramento, one of 2,000 Marines and sailors from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit taking part in anti-terrorist training at the former George Air Force base.

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Troops Practice Street Smarts

Pfc. Marc Richburg, also 19, took the peeking lesson seriously. "This is important, you bet, so we don't get shot.'

Down a street lined with empty houses, occupied until 1992 when the jet trainin...

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