TALES OF PATROLLING the streets by the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment. From pieces of information I'm cobbling together it appears the 2d ACR has the sector north and east of the 1st Brigade, 1AD sector (across the canal) in what used to be known as Saddam City.

After 11 p.m. — curfew hour — the patrol began again. As three Humvees crawled along a darkened street, an orange-and-yellow Volkswagen Passat screeched over a median in front of Schumacher’s Humvee, nearly colliding with it.

The driver, in the traditional white robe many Muslims wear, apparently was drunk. He fell to the ground as soon as soldiers opened his car door. They handcuffed him and put him into a small room in the bunker they call “the drunk tank.” A soldier drove the Passat back to the bunker.

“He’ll be out at 0500,” Schumacher said. “We’ll let him walk home.”

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