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--SUPERS-- Tuesday Baghdad :00 - :52 Col Ryan Dillon Spokesman, Combined Joint Task Force --LEAD IN-- MORE THAN FIVE-THOUSAND U-S TROOPS ARE HELPING FIGHT ISIS IN IRAQ BUT ON JULY FOURTH, THEY TOOK A PAUSE TO MARK THE AMERICAS BIRTHDAY --SOT-- Col Ryan Dillon, Spokesman, Combined Joint Task Force: I can say that any soldier, airman, Marine, anywhere in any deployment is always gonna find his way to celebrate, whether that be Fourth of July, or Christmas, we will always find the way But just right outside my office here, Old Glory is flying throughout this installation, probably a-hundred flags are waving in the Iraqi breeze right now, so we will always find a way But another thing that I would like to highlight is that this coalition, a true coalition, with 23 partner nations that are contributing forces, its almost every week that we can celebrate something Canada Day was just on the first of July, so we can celebrate pretty regularly here -TAG-- U-S TROOPS HAVE AN EXTRA REASON TO CELEBRATE THIS YEAR THEIR ALLIES ARE MAKING PROGRESS IN PUSHING ISIS OUT OF THE IRAQI CITY OF MOSUL, AS WELL AS THE TERROR GROUPS SELF-PROCLAIMED CAPITAL OF RAQQA, SYRIA -----END-----CNNSCRIPT----- --KEYWORD TAGS-- INDEPENDENCE DAY JULY 4TH IRAQ TROOPS MILITARY