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Freedom genera Corbyn train up and

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searching for terrorists .

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Welcome to this edition of Freedom

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Journal Iraq 50 john Children and

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here's a look at events shaping the

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region . The Iraqi Fourth Army division

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took over operational control of

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Central Salahuddin province from the U .

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S . Army's 25th Infantry Division .

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It's the second of Iraq's 10 divisions

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to come under direct Iraqi control .

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This means the Prime Minister is the

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commander in chief of the Navy Air

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Force . In two of the Iraqi army

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divisions . Iraqi soldiers found and

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disabled a large vehicle borne

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improvised explosive device according

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to the area and brought in the Iraqi

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explosive ordinance disposal team oreo

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D . They found £2000 of TNT wired to

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the vehicle because the charge was too

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large to detonate . The E . O . D .

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Team dismantled the device to make it

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safe . Also , since the beginning of

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operation together forward in Baghdad ,

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Iraqi security forces and coalition

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soldiers appeared 53,000 buildings ,

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arrested more than 100 terrorists and

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seized more than 1200 weapons in the

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years since it was founded , the

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National Provincial Reconstruction Team

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or PRT . The South . The Iraqi

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government identified about 70 major

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projects worth $45 million to improve

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life in Northern Iraq . Chief Petty

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Officer Darryl Crandall has more from

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building roads and bridges across the

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province to improving schools and

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hospitals and increasing the

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availability of electric power and

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other utilities . The nano a PRT

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improves quality of life for residents

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of the province working hand in hand

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with Iraqi officials . Lieutenant

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Commander chuck flowers is deeply

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involved in strengthening the nano

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infrastructure . A lot of the things

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that we're working with the Iraqis to

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help develop are the things that that I

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would do for the Navy on a day to day

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basis , deciding what needs to be fixed ,

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figuring out how we were going to get

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that fixed . The PRT actually helps the

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provincial director general's

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prioritize their needs and obtained

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funding for the projects . Again , we

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used various funding sources ,

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both Department of State um Department

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of Defense as seed money

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to allow the Iraqis as much say as we

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can both to help develop their ability

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to manage the infrastructure themselves

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and also to help you have a little bit

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of self determination in the direction

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that the U . S . Reconstruction effort

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is going . Once the projects are

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prioritized and funded , they're turned

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over to the Army Corps of Engineers for

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contracting out to local firms . It's

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more of a teach a man to fish

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than give a man a fish and an

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initiative . We're not focused on

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the individual projects as we are in

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the process of how the Iraqis would

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develop a project and then

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marry the requirement with the

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resources to actually execute that

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project . The Sinjar Water project is a

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major $30 million endeavor being

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planned this year and will include 60

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wells like this one into law for

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another project is an air traffic

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control tower in Mosul . We provided a

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$10 million airpower and some

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navigational aids to improve the

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airfields capacity hopefully to allow

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civil aviation to expand in the

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northern part of the country . PRT

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members say the infrastructure is

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improving slowly but steadily . The

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infrastructure in Iraq has

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been at best stagnant

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for about 30 years . There's lots of

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lots to be done and it's

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not just , it's not something that

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you're going to be able to fix in a few

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months . I think the Iraqis have a

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very bright future ahead of

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them . Chief Petty Officer Gerald ,

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Crandall Ninawa Province Iraq

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maybe Corman it Cottam surgical the

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ugly side of war . Every day since

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corporal Jeffrey ingersoll reports how

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their training prepares them for the

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worst . Doctors and nurses at the

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column surgical simulate a scenario

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hoping that it will never become a

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reality

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mass casualty drill prepares the

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incoming crew to treat more than 20

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patients in less than 30 minutes

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presentations

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actually experience

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treatment rooms with multiple patients

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forced Corman and doctors alike to

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communicate effectively and bond as a

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team .

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All the Corman and marines scrambled to

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wherever they were needed the most and

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to whoever needed the most help .

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Their efforts reflect a dedication that

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has followed the Corman from the

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memorable flag raising at Iwo Jima to

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the sands of the Persian gulf . Always

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try to help

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Next corporate directory and basil al

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Taqaddum . Well

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after the break meeting the neighbors

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stay with were

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rebounding people's lives and giving

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new hope that will effect these kids

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for future generations and now they've

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got people working making a living

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providing bread for their families on a

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daily basis , that this is Iraq's

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future generations of being taught here .

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Just remember that . I remember the day

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there were school and United States

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Army Corps of Engineers came and killed

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the facility again and gave him this

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facility to go to school . And I

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remember that with welcome back ,

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us and Iraqi soldiers work together

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searching homes for high value targets

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and weapons . Marvin Cornell visited

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some soldiers on patrol with the help

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of the Iraqi army charlie troops of

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cavalry and infantry division conduct

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many operations around forward

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operating base moment . These

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operations range from around patrols

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searching homes for suspected

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terrorists . First , David johnson says ,

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even if they , sometimes they're

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looking for , you can still be a good

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day . We went out there and look for

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this guy . Uh , we're walking around

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walking on doors , you know , recorded

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everything . Uh , we didn't end up

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finding the guy , uh , wasn't there .

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We got some information from the local

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area of the local population , uh , got

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some good information , good pictures ,

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things like that . And searching for

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terrorists with , there's much work

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needed to be done started . John

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Brennan says that he's glad he's here

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to help the people around . We started

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to patrol around the town just to get

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to know the people in the town to get

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any information and let everybody know

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that we were there to help down . And

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if they could give us information that

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would help us protect down against any

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terrorists in that nature , uh , that

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would be more helpful to us , even

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though we didn't find the target . I

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think we did a good job . Just let them

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know that people were in town and we're

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here to change the air . Uh , the

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although their time is short , these 29

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kids soldiers remain focused and ready

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for a mission until their job . Here's

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army sergeant in the

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british forces at the port of um QASR

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are tasked with training the Iraqi

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marines , Army staff sergeant , David

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bias reports on the progress they're

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making training . Iraqi forces is a

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huge responsibility for the coalition

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at the naval port and Lucas are 45

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commando marines from the United

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Kingdom , showing Iraqi troops how to

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handle the rigors of the BsF missions .

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The B . B . S . S mission is the vessel

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full season search mission , which is

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for the Iraqi marines support all sorts

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of ships ranging from the small fishing

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fishing towns that we see running up

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and down the river to the old tankers

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that we see on the council . What

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happened with the coalition ships will

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come down the river . The Iraqi raise a

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practice boarding on the coalition ship

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came down . The Iraqis went out and

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simulated a full boarding as they would

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do for real on a , on a fishing down or ,

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or a small vessel . Overall training is

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progressing quickly . I've been out

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here for six months now and I've seen

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huge improvements over , over this last

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six months . The Iraqis have gone from

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a relatively basic level . So now being

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in a position where they can almost

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take over a number of roles themselves .

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They've got three missions , the B . B .

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S . S possible season search mission

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that we've already talked about . The

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all platforms and the premise of

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security of naval base and the

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improvements that they've made in that

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six months of the I don't think we're

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not far off now for them being able to

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take over a lot of these roles

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themselves . Army Sergeant David bias

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in Qatar Iraq soon into the next FBI

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when sergeant first class let's reduce

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um shows us how scrap metal can be made

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into something unique . It started off

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as a joke . I took a picture of a

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humvee and I cut and pasted it to make

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it look like a six seater humvee and

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once they figured out that the picture

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was a fake then they said it couldn't

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be done . That's all for this edition

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of the newscast that brings you the

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stories from the front lines of the war

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on terror and Operation Iraqi , freedom

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from all of us here at the event and

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Freedom Colonel Iraq have a safe day .

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You

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yeah

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