The Benzene Queen
By Major Krista McKinley, U.S. Marine Corps
A Marine officer tells her story of supporting the oil infrastructure in Iraq.
Southern Iraq (November 2002 to July 2003)
On my first tour in Iraq I was assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) Civil Affairs cell in the G-3. What started out as a straightforward civil affairs mission to ensure our military operations did not collide with the civilian functioning of Iraq took a strange turn when I MEF assumed responsibility for petroleum distribution across most of southern Iraq.
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Major McKinley is the Officer-in-Charge of the MAGTF Deployment and Distribution Operations Center for I MEF and will deploy a third time to Iraq in January 2008.
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