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What is your responsibility every day ?

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All right , My response . I'm the

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overall coordinator of the sandbags .

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The details of um responsible ,

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make sure , ensure their safety besides

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everything . Get the whole

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the whole detail and sandbag mission

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accomplished supervisor , make sure

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that the walls are going into

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pertaining the correct areas . Uh keep

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income of standards for building the

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walls and then once we have completed

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our U . Turn in the report , how many

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we have completed and so on . Okay .

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Why do you believe that your mission is

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important here in Iraq ? Um , well ,

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If I can save one life , my mission is

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very important . Well , by um , by

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putting the sandbag walls and ensuring

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that they don't do standards . We um ,

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we're protecting life , not just one

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life , but it could be , you know ,

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anybody in particular by being that

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these trailers are being used by

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military personnel , civilians , State

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Department personnel that are here

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station here . Um , it's very

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imperative that there's some sort of

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protection in case of mortar attack or

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a rocket attack . Uh , sandbag walls

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will withstand a small hit , but

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they're not actually designed to uh

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to stop rocket or more that are more

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designed to prevent shrapnel for going

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to the trailers trailers , obviously

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they're constructed of aluminum , I

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guess fire to us being here in

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another camp because there was no

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sandbags . Some guy got killed . Uh ,

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some other person got killed because

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the shrapnel went to Australia as it

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was taking a shower . So , uh , the

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way the walls are designed . Um , if

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you have the explosion , it should

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allow uh deflection . So the shrapnel

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will not go just through the trailer .

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Probably deflected to try to go in the

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upper emotions and try to prevent you

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know going into the trailer killing

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somebody . How will you be

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my guys ? I got a great thing .

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Yeah . Well I tried to since

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the beginning when we started I tried

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teaching them , teaching them every

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every aspect of the job so they all can

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do every one of our job without

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them . You know make sure wouldn't get

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done like it gets done . No I think my

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guys are pretty squared away . We

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worked very hard . We get up very early

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in the morning and go we go up to the

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part of formation , pick up the local

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nationals and all that and they are

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very professional . Alright basically

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um In the morning we meet our detail

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that comes to media department . Then

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we give a quick overview of the

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operation is all about . Just look . So

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the people here oriented what we're

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doing and more . That's an idea what

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the mission is . Uh We explain why we

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do it and then from there on we move

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out from from our department onto the

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vehicles up to an area where we pick up

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our local nationals . Um When we get

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there we establish security uh and

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then we started getting the search

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detail online . We get them all

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prepared to explain to them how to

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search , how to conduct the search what

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we're looking for , what's authorized

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was not authorized to be brought in .

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Uh then we proceed to start the search .

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They come in , we checked her

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identification which is called Agencia .

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And uh we make sure that it has a

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special ink stamp on it . They don't

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have that stamp , it's not a true

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Agencia , it could be a fake something

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like that . So make sure they have a

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picture , they could not get into the

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embassy compound without just here

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child . Once we I clear them they go

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into the search line and the guys in

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the details searching they proceed and

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then we're moving from there to uh we

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like to call it like a search personnel

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holding area . So that way we know that

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they've been searched and there's a

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clean area so they're not gonna you

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know disappear on us or something like

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that , we can keep an eye on them . Um

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After we complete the search then we

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single file and move them up to the

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upper portion of our where we pick them

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up at and we'll wait for the buses and

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the sand trucks to come up . Uh The

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buses can go through an X ray procedure

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so to make sure they're clear also that

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have the dogs come in and they do sniff

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sniff around the bus , make sure

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there's no explosives or anything like

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that . Once they clear we load them

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into the buses , then we bring them up

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into the embassy compound