WEBVTT 00:04.740 --> 00:06.450 Yeah . Captain Aaron Fisher . 00:08.340 --> 00:12.120 And what is your , your ability in 00:12.120 --> 00:13.953 support company I am the company 00:13.953 --> 00:16.176 commander engineer . Support company 90 00:16.176 --> 00:18.900 SB Yeah We're building a water crossing 00:18.900 --> 00:22.540 for 115 m water gap using 00:22.550 --> 00:25.150 multiple culverts to spend the distance 00:25.150 --> 00:27.317 and when the rainy season comes in the 00:27.317 --> 00:29.372 winter thaw , we'll still be able to 00:29.372 --> 00:31.706 move military traffic across this point . 00:31.706 --> 00:34.350 No rot red is used by locals as well 00:34.350 --> 00:36.350 for their commerce up and down this 00:36.350 --> 00:40.150 valley . This connects Shigatse 00:40.160 --> 00:44.020 along with leatherneck 00:44.030 --> 00:46.400 for us and other smaller towns 00:46.400 --> 00:49.560 throughout the area for locals Business . 00:49.570 --> 00:52.140 We got here on the 10th and I've been 00:52.140 --> 00:54.307 working in the last four days , pretty 00:54.307 --> 00:57.710 much nonstop Deb 06 accountability 00:57.710 --> 00:59.766 breakfast and as soon as first light 00:59.766 --> 01:01.877 hits , we start uh start moving earth 01:01.877 --> 01:05.130 and and working . Yeah , we put a layer 01:05.130 --> 01:08.050 of geo geo fabric down . It's just 01:08.060 --> 01:11.380 basically felt as well as a textile 01:11.380 --> 01:14.520 material that's helps hold the fines as 01:14.520 --> 01:17.000 well as the small soils . And then we 01:17.000 --> 01:20.600 start laying the covert down and we put 01:20.610 --> 01:24.450 so far we put about a 100 truckloads 01:24.450 --> 01:26.700 worth of cubic earth onto this 01:28.640 --> 01:32.290 this Colbert like a road surface . We 01:32.300 --> 01:34.467 were gonna do the basic steps of water 01:34.467 --> 01:36.689 and compaction . Once we've put a crown 01:36.689 --> 01:38.800 on it , just make sure that the water 01:38.800 --> 01:41.022 doesn't sit on the road . Uh there's no 01:41.022 --> 01:43.244 no stabilization . None other than that 01:43.244 --> 01:45.300 to the soil . Don't the marines that 01:45.300 --> 01:47.467 are working the road locals approached 01:47.467 --> 01:49.689 them talking to him asking what they're 01:49.689 --> 01:51.744 doing all that . That's where we get 01:51.744 --> 01:53.800 most of the data . There's some some 01:53.800 --> 01:55.967 scientific data but not a whole lot in 01:55.967 --> 01:57.967 this region . Most of its come from 01:57.967 --> 02:00.189 locals tell us where the water comes up 02:00.189 --> 02:00.120 to and where has come up to him in the 02:00.130 --> 02:03.960 past . So okay . Do an outstanding job . 02:03.960 --> 02:07.420 They they work hard , they get up early 02:07.420 --> 02:09.642 in the morning , they work late and had 02:09.642 --> 02:11.809 to kick him off the site . Sometimes I 02:11.809 --> 02:13.920 just want to keep going Out of simple 02:13.920 --> 02:16.087 distance of getting materials out here 02:16.087 --> 02:18.198 from from Leatherneck . It's about 57 02:18.198 --> 02:20.364 km away from where we are now . And uh 02:20.364 --> 02:22.420 it takes a little bit of time to get 02:22.420 --> 02:24.531 over there , unload and load all that 02:24.531 --> 02:26.531 material Loading and Loading Always 02:26.531 --> 02:28.531 takes about three hours . So it can 02:28.531 --> 02:31.940 turn a Three hour trip into about 9 , 02:32.020 --> 02:34.980 9 hours just going over there , driving , 02:34.990 --> 02:37.046 loading and coming back . Then we've 02:37.046 --> 02:40.880 got to offload at the site . So Hee 02:40.880 --> 02:43.110 specific , we've got about 15 different 02:43.110 --> 02:45.390 items . As far as trucks go There is 02:45.390 --> 02:47.880 closer to 20 vehicles out here , motor 02:47.880 --> 02:49.870 t assets . It leaves something 02:49.870 --> 02:51.814 permanent for the locals here . So 02:52.140 --> 02:54.307 years from now they can still use this 02:54.307 --> 02:56.529 water crossing , even the rating season 02:56.529 --> 02:56.450 after we've left and know that we've 02:56.450 --> 02:58.617 built this and provided them something 02:58.617 --> 03:00.783 lasting something they can use to pass 03:00.783 --> 03:03.450 commerce through this area . So I 03:03.450 --> 03:06.660 honestly believe that getting commerce , 03:06.670 --> 03:08.690 getting money into these local 03:08.690 --> 03:10.857 communities , smaller villages so they 03:10.857 --> 03:13.079 can build schools and homes is the only 03:13.079 --> 03:15.079 way that they're going to give them 03:15.079 --> 03:17.190 another option . Something they don't 03:17.190 --> 03:17.020 have to do to avoid having to go be a 03:17.020 --> 03:19.930 terrorist . They can they can get their 03:19.930 --> 03:22.990 kids into school and it gives them 03:22.990 --> 03:25.157 something other than like I said , the 03:25.157 --> 03:27.490 alternative . So I think it's important 03:27.490 --> 03:29.601 that we do this and provide them that 03:29.601 --> 03:31.920 opportunity . We normally don't do body 03:31.920 --> 03:34.087 crossings this big . Normally the most 03:34.087 --> 03:36.198 we'll put in as two or three of these 03:36.198 --> 03:38.476 culverts systems at this point in time , 03:38.476 --> 03:40.587 we think we've got Of the small 36" , 03:40.587 --> 03:43.100 we've got we've got 16 , I've got To 03:43.100 --> 03:45.156 box courts and one U . Shaped covert 03:45.156 --> 03:48.750 also have four concrete culverts . 03:49.140 --> 03:51.084 Well , like I said , we've grabbed 03:51.084 --> 03:53.196 everything we couldn't leatherneck to 03:53.196 --> 03:53.150 ensure that this rat wouldn't close 03:53.150 --> 03:55.570 down so we can use it our entire time 03:55.570 --> 03:57.903 here as we start to draw in Afghanistan , 03:57.903 --> 03:59.848 they're going to put more and more 03:59.848 --> 04:01.959 engineers out ambitions like this are 04:01.959 --> 04:04.181 not going to happen . So it's important 04:04.181 --> 04:03.880 that we get it done now and it's taken 04:03.880 --> 04:06.102 care of now because they won't have the 04:06.102 --> 04:06.860 capacity to do it in the future .