It is four in the morning and the convoy is staged and ready to roll. Today's run has 70 vehicles _ 50 trucks loaded with food, water and supplies and 20 military escorts, guns mounted and turrets manned.
When it hits the road, the convoy will sprawl six miles (10 kilometers) long.
The course ahead is a 70-mile (113-kilometer) stretch of desert highway through the oasis hamlet of Baghdadi and out to Haditha Dam, where the Euphrates River meets Lake Qadisiya.
The dam, on the outskirts of a dusty city by the same name of about 78,000, is Iraq's second-largest source of hydroelectricity, and the U.S. Marines' Combat Logistics Battalion 4 _ CLB 4 _ …
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