IRAQ: Willie is the way

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Every Marine has his own way of handling the perils of being in a convoy on a route where roadside bombs and snipers may await.

Cpl. Tyler Head of Oklahoma City settles back in the driver’s seat of his Humvee and flips a switch on his jerry-built stereo. Out blares the Willie Nelson song, ‘On The Road Again.’

‘It gets me in the mood,’ Head said.

— Tony Perry in Hit in the Euphrates River Valley

Video: Willie Nelson performs country classic, ‘On the Road Again.’