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/ 5 July 2006

Man serves year in Iraq because of clerical error

A former national guard captain whose military service was supposed to end seven years ago was sent to Iraq for a year by mistake because of an incorrect discharge date in his records. Jim Dillinger was 43 when he received a letter from the Defence Department in May 2004 saying he was one of 5 600 members of the Individual Ready Reserve being sent to Iraq.