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Operation Field Chicken shut down.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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| March 01, 2003 | Harris, Ron | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ron Harris

LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait _ Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken has been shut down, at least for now.

The chickens are dead.

Just more than a week after 43 chickens were brought here to ride into battle with the Marines, all but two have died.

Most were buried in the soft sand outside of regiment headquarters. Small, wooden tombstones mark their graves.

There's one for Captain Popeye, one for Pfc. King, another for Lance Cpl. Pecker and, finally, one marking the grave of The Unknown Chicken.

The plan was to use the chickens the way miners once used caged canaries to warn them of poisonous gas ...

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