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the military engineers in Ceo at least

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11 years . So at least been training

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soldiers 11 years . But I came from

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Fort Benning . I worked at the B not

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Ceo Academy training sergeants . So

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I've used some of what we teach should

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be not to help try to develop N . C . O .

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Corps . But I've been in trade doc in

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the training the training environment I

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guess about three years .

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It's of

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course living with them for a year .

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You get a completely different view

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because these guys got less equipment .

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We have less time to train . I mean our

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basic training 13 weeks . Then you go

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to your unit to train up . These

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soldiers have been here a couple of

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weeks and they'll probably be on

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missions within a couple of weeks . Uh

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they don't have the up armoured

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vehicles . They got 50 Humvees but they

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ride in bongo trucks and someone don't

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have the proper body armor . They go

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out , they get wounded , they see their

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buddies get killed but the next day

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they're back on mission and they go out

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and they keep fighting . I've been

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extremely impressed with Iraqi soldier

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from working with equipment and the

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training that they have to go on

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missions and keep fighting over and

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over . Um You just can't say that . I

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can't say enough about him . He really

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can't . Our guys . When we roll

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emissions , we got more vehicles , we

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got up armored Humvees , we got the

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best body armor you can have the best

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weapons you can have . And these guys

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are using basically our leftover .

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They've done an excellent job . The

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surface that they have here is an

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excellent start major . Uh he's very

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strict I mean he's he works 20 hours a

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day . I want to go find him at night .

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He's out walking to compound make sure

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the buildings are clean and stuff like

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that . So the talent and desires there

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is just the way of doing things . They

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just never used them as leaders . They

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just use them as uh supervisors and not

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leaders . So and and they're getting

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better . It's getting closer to N . C .

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O . Corps that we recognize . But that

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is to me that's one of the biggest it's

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a whole group of tools a whole group of

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leadership that they're not even using

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yet . And when they start using them

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more and more they'll just of course

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they'll just become stronger and get

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more training out of it . So that's

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what I'm here .