Also, just to be a stickler, it wasn't a COP. It was just a vehicle parking area with an OP. A COP designates, although not everytime, more permanent settings, i.e. concrete barriers/walls.

From COL Preysler's (173rd ABCT CDR) interview with Stars and Stripes:

"People are saying that this was a full-up [forward operating base]/combat outpost, and that is absolutely false and not true. There were no walls," Preysler said, latter adding, "FOB [COP] denotes that there are walls and perimeters and all that. It’s a vehicle patrol base, temporary in nature."

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Only when troops can be portrayed as vicitims does the media show much interest in "reporting" on their activities.

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