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Oh good . Welcome to Austin . Glad to

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have you back . Good to be

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back you . Mhm .

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If only if only be a satellite we can

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root for the long , hard going in the N .

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C . A . A . Tournament again ? Yeah ,

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I'm sorry , what was that again ?

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Okay , okay . Hang on

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one . Welcome back . Here's

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another session of our hometown heroes .

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We are talking with texas service

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personnel over in the Middle East . Our

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guest this morning is Captain Rafael

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Guerra . He is a Jag judge advocate

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general . He's a lawyer over there with

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the National Guard . We're going to

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talk to him a little bit and uh , it's

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an inside his fifth . What is happening

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there . Captain Guerra , can you hear

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us and good to talk to you if you can ?

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No , I sure can I can hear you fine .

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I want to tell the people you were a

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University of texas grabbed 2001 ,

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University of Houston Law school , grab

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2000 and four . Now you're in the Jag

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Corps . Tell us a little bit about that .

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Well , I'll tell you what , it's a ,

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it's a great opportunity to get a great

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education there from our texas schools

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and to be able to contribute that

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knowledge and experience uh , through

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the military , especially in this time

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of need . Uh , Jag corps is a fantastic

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organization uh , spread around the

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world and uh , I'll tell you what the

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only place you can practice law like

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this is in the army without that . We

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will tell people that you're with the

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joint fires and effects cell . Can you

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tell us what that entails or is that

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classified ? Uh It's essentially what

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they do , it's the joint cars and

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effects cell does a lot of the

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coordinations with the lower units uh

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in anything they do that causes any

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type of what real term as effects on uh

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any any type of combatant or

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noncombatant in the uh Iraq theater of

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operations . We coordinate anything

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from air to uh to uh messages or

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anything that needs to be coordinated

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from lower commands through the higher

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commands ? You probably more than any

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lawyer that might be . There have some

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pretty firsthand knowledge of this

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because you spent some side in the

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infantry , Right ? That's right . 11

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years as an infantryman , uh graduate

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of the Ranger school along with some

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other schools that made me very proud

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to be an infantryman . Do you miss the

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infantry or is it more from being a

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lawyer ? I'm sorry you say that again .

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Mhm . Do you miss do you miss the

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infantry or is it more challenging

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being a lawyer over there ? Uh huh . Um

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Yes , and no , I missed the infantry

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because of the commodity that you had

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amongst the soldiers and the , you know ,

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the high level of intensity of your

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activities . But I'll tell you what ,

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as I get a little bit older , I kind of

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like the fact that the army wants to be

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more from my brain than my body .

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Well , that's well said , I guess

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um What's the environment like there ,

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Can you tell us much about it where you

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are . Um Well it's ,

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we're , I mean we're in the middle of

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essentially in the middle of Baghdad ,

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it's a , as far as the environment

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concern is a great environment to be

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inside . Uh , and and among the troops

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and dealing on day to day basis with

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all the activities that's going on . Um ,

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but we're well protected and uh , you

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know , it's a good place to be able to

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do our job from and we assume the

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job is getting done . Oh ,

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absolutely . Every day we , you know ,

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we're seeing positive reports , uh ,

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you know , and uh , you know , this is

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it's a low intensity conflict but it's

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very challenging and it's , you know ,

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things you don't see , uh , you don't

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see your proofs of your activity the

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next day . Sometimes it takes a while ,

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but I see a lot of positive things

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happening here , true enough . Before

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we let you go , I've got to ask you one

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more thing , are you going to be able

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to follow the Longhorns in the N . C .

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Two , A tournament . Will you be able

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to get the game's over there we are .

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And yes , I do . Uh go , horns were ,

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there's a lot of us out here and we're

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behind you , no matter what , just like

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you're behind us , they can issue some

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burnt orange camel Captain Raul . Do

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Guerra from Mcallen . It's good to talk

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to you and try and stay safe over there ?

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We appreciate it . Will do . Thank you .

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You bet you good to talk to you ,

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rafael Guerra out of Mcallen and u t .

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And you receive Houston Law School .

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We'll be right back .