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say your full name . Cross sir , your

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age . And yeah , I'm Lieutenant Colonel

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chris griffin . I'm from Memphis

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florida 40 years old . This is a very

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significant sources . Somebody feel

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about seeing you over . Well , anybody

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that saw that battalion march in knows

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anything about their recent combat

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history would be proud and honored to

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take over the battalion . And of course

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I am , uh , it's honestly one of the

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proudest days of my life . Um , and

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it's humbling to , to know that I'm

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entrusted with Karen for almost 1000

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marines that have distinguished

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themselves in combat and paid

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tremendous sacrifices to their country

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and coroner fellow man , but I'll die

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trying to do just that . So sir , and

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how do you feel about the previous can

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answer you ? The previous command is

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outstanding . Lieutenant Colonel Morris

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is leadership in combat with the men in

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Sangin is second to none under his

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leadership . And Sergeant Major Bush

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ways as well . They absolutely crushed

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the enemy every time they came upon

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them they lived in uh extremely spartan

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conditions uh , and continued to

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perform superbly and with this

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distinction throughout the whole

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deployment . So the command is

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outstanding and I'm happy to be

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replacing them . Wish them the best .

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The last question sir is how do you

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feel or what are your plans ? Italian

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that's easy . My first plans first and

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foremost to take care of the men who

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were hurt in santa and take care of

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their families and take care of the

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families of the men who were lost . And

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then aside from that we're training new

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marines , making sure that they learned

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from some of the valuable combat

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experience of the veterans were getting

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ready to go off on the 15th meu and

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confront whatever awaits us when we get

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there . That's it . Thank you very much .

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Okay .