Soldier's Itinerary: Iraq, Home, First Child, Back To Iraq

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Soldier's Itinerary: Iraq, Home, First Child, Back to Iraq

Posted: Jan. 10 11:04 p.m.

Fort Bragg — Sgt. Josh Trout was allowed to spend an extra couple of weeks at home when the 82nd Airborne Division’s Second Brigade headed to Kuwait last week. He got the extra time to get to know Emmah Lynn Trout, who was born Jan. 3 at 8:58 p.m., a few weeks after her father came home from five months in Iraq.

Emmah weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. She will be bigger when her father sees her next because he will soon catch up with his unit for his fourth overseas deployment.

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Trout’s wife of two years, Tara, did not plan to watch. The speech could not affect her attitude, either. "Because he's gonna say what he wants. He's gonna do what he wants. There's nothing I can do about it; just wait for him to come home and deploy the next time," Tara Trout said.

Trout has been in Iraq twice and Afghanistan once. He lost four comrades in his unit in Iraq. He supports the president’s plan to deploy more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.

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Tara Trout is feeling that the family is being spread thin, too. "If they have to keep sending them, why do they keep sending him?" she asked.

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