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as far as i know, you are going to need an agency or publication that will write a letter of accreditation, as well as proof of completion of a hostile environments training course (AKE and Centurion offer these and they are expensive). Also, you have to have your own armor as well. Bill Putnam and a couple other LS’ers will know better, but those were the requirements as i understood a couple of months ago.

Nearly all answer’s to your questions can be found here:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10215&Itemid=144

Yes, letter of accreditation/assignment is necessary, proof of hostile environment training is not. As far as cost goes, aside from armor and any additional equipment you may need, 90% of your expense will be flying round trip from Denver to Kuwait City.

Good luck and stay safe..

I did it in November 2003. Procedures may well have changed, but at the time I showed up at the Coalition Provisional Authority offices, talked with some military, then went down to Ramadi where we passed through another base en route to the troops we were embedding with. It was all pretty simple. They were very short of Kevlar, but I borrowed from a soldier while out on patrol.

If anyone’s still following this post:
Does it matter, black or tan vest? In the ordering process now for a Dec. 09 trip.
Thanks.

Tan- why try to stand out in a potential hostile environment? Better to blend in. Different gets you noticed, noticed gets you shot.

Black also is a lot hotter, absorbs solar radiation and all that.