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Yeah , yeah . Mhm . During the month of

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january marines with ninth Engineers

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support battalion constructed a land

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bridge across a dry riverbed also

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called a wadi which intersects with

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route Red right . Red has been under

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construction for the past year and is

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the main road marines used when

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traveling north and south through the

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district of musa Qala . This was the

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last major project on the road build

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the wadi , they estimated sees about

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four ft of water as soon as the wet

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season hits A combination of the rain

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and the melt off from the mountains .

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Uh this this gets hit pretty hard with

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water so we're building a land bridge

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so water will flow and that washed the

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road out . The land bridge spans 115 m

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and will ensure the use of route read

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during the rainy season . Typically the

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rain during this time floods , the Wadi

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enforces marines to use an alternate

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route of at least 18 miles in either

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direction . Well we have to level the

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ground find center . Then we lay the er

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culvert and the pieces where the water

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will flow through and then we have the

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backfill over that . It's pretty long

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tedious process for each step . But

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when it all comes together , you end up

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with a bridge . This bridge will not

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only benefit marines and coalition

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forces traveling through the area , but

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also afghans throughout the surrounding

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districts who used the road on a daily

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basis . Leave something permanent for

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the locals here . So years from now

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they can still use this water crossing

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even the rating season after we've left

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and know that we've built this and

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provided them something lasting ,

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something they can use to pass commerce

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through this area . So the marines

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worked around the clock through rain

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and freezing temperatures for more than

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a week in order to ensure the bridge

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was completed before the heavy rains

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began . Their an outstanding job . They

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they work hard . They get up early in

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the morning , they work late and had to

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kick him off the site . Sometimes I

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just want to keep going reporting from

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Helmand Province , Afghanistan . I'm

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corporal brian Nygaard . Yeah .