WEBVTT 00:00.040 --> 00:03.740 Hey Jason , How you doing ? Good , how 00:03.740 --> 00:07.330 are you ? I'm great . It's a beautiful 00:07.330 --> 00:09.560 day here in Seattle Sons out . It's 00:09.560 --> 00:11.727 about 70 degrees today . It's going to 00:11.727 --> 00:14.840 be a wonderful couple of days . That's 00:14.840 --> 00:16.860 great . Too bad . I'm missing it . 00:18.520 --> 00:20.687 So tell me what is the weather like in 00:20.687 --> 00:24.490 Iraq today ? I 00:24.490 --> 00:26.657 believe that high temp was supposed to 00:26.657 --> 00:30.360 be 1091 10 and it's clear 00:30.360 --> 00:33.430 skies a little hazy . That's about it . 00:35.820 --> 00:37.931 Tell me about some of the duties that 00:37.931 --> 00:39.931 you are assigned to do over there . 00:42.550 --> 00:46.140 I'm an Air Force liaison 00:46.140 --> 00:50.120 to the to three or three to 00:50.120 --> 00:53.920 sorry 32 I'd striker 00:53.930 --> 00:57.830 brigade . My job is to 00:58.330 --> 01:01.520 advise the ground commander on what the 01:01.520 --> 01:04.420 Air Force can bring to the fight . A 01:04.420 --> 01:07.190 system in selecting the correct 01:07.190 --> 01:10.230 aircraft ammunition for the for the 01:10.230 --> 01:13.700 mission at hand and then I controlled 01:13.700 --> 01:17.480 aircraft on its final approach and 01:18.070 --> 01:21.070 give the clearance to drop ordinance . 01:24.670 --> 01:26.948 How long have you been in that , Jason ? 01:28.240 --> 01:31.520 I've been doing this job since 2000 and 01:31.520 --> 01:35.370 two . I've been in the Air Force since 01:35.370 --> 01:39.360 1995 . Communities . Had some 01:39.360 --> 01:41.527 other fairly interesting deployments . 01:41.527 --> 01:44.790 You're talking about those . My last 01:44.790 --> 01:47.060 appointment was to Afghanistan with the 01:47.060 --> 01:49.420 10th mountain Division doing the same 01:49.420 --> 01:52.920 thing I'm doing here . And uh 01:52.930 --> 01:56.740 before that I did a just 01:56.750 --> 01:58.806 Operation Northern Watch in Southern 01:58.806 --> 01:59.917 Watch before 9 11 . 02:03.400 --> 02:05.400 1 of the big stories we're covering 02:05.400 --> 02:08.640 here . Um , as the news as news media 02:08.650 --> 02:11.090 is the loss of the three soldiers of 02:11.090 --> 02:13.257 course and then we can spend up to one 02:13.257 --> 02:15.479 of the bodies . Was found today and the 02:15.479 --> 02:17.590 famous soldiers . Has that been a big 02:17.590 --> 02:19.701 topic of conversation ? Have you been 02:19.701 --> 02:21.868 at all directly involved in the search 02:21.868 --> 02:24.034 there in Baghdad for those three men ? 02:24.160 --> 02:27.560 I haven't , I haven't really been 02:28.330 --> 02:30.608 I haven't really heard much about that . 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Today . President Bush held a press 02:37.000 --> 02:40.670 conference calling for more troops 02:40.670 --> 02:43.720 $120 billion dollars spending package 02:43.730 --> 02:47.350 to fund the war in Iraq . Um , he said 02:47.350 --> 02:49.517 this is a critical time for operations 02:49.517 --> 02:51.683 over there . What is your assessment ? 02:51.683 --> 02:53.683 Would , would you agree with that ? 02:53.683 --> 02:55.628 Which expand a little bit ? Do you 02:55.628 --> 02:55.020 think this is a critical time for 02:55.020 --> 02:57.470 bringing more troops in to try to make 02:57.600 --> 03:00.280 progress or what is your evaluation ? 03:04.920 --> 03:08.470 I'm doing my best to support the third 03:08.470 --> 03:12.430 brigade striker team . It's 03:12.430 --> 03:14.580 getting a little crowded here , but 03:14.980 --> 03:18.510 it's our job and I'm gonna do it to my 03:18.510 --> 03:22.310 fullest . You see a little 03:22.310 --> 03:24.366 crowded . Does that mean some of the 03:24.366 --> 03:26.643 bases are getting a little packed ? Hi , 03:26.643 --> 03:29.650 can you explain what that means ? A lot 03:29.650 --> 03:32.880 of people ? A small city . 03:36.980 --> 03:39.202 President Bush also said he expects the 03:39.202 --> 03:41.880 violence to ratchet up as more troops 03:41.880 --> 03:43.991 pour in ? Why do you think that could 03:43.991 --> 03:43.920 happen ? 03:47.620 --> 03:51.230 I really don't . I don't know . I 03:51.230 --> 03:53.508 haven't thought about it all that much . 03:57.860 --> 04:00.450 What do you miss most from home , Jason ? 04:02.590 --> 04:04.820 The weather and my family . 04:08.270 --> 04:10.650 What when you daydream about home ? 04:10.650 --> 04:12.983 What do you envision is the perfect day . 04:12.983 --> 04:16.560 A 04:16.570 --> 04:20.070 perfect day . Either going to 04:20.890 --> 04:24.220 not right here spending the day of the 04:24.220 --> 04:27.570 paradise or going up down to 04:27.580 --> 04:30.650 downtown Seattle with my wife and 04:30.650 --> 04:33.880 daughter maybe going to the aquarium . 04:36.340 --> 04:40.110 How old is your daughter ? Jason ? She 04:40.110 --> 04:42.610 turned to on the 31st March . 04:44.310 --> 04:47.300 And when were you last home ? Uh 04:47.310 --> 04:50.980 January just after 04:50.990 --> 04:52.850 the new year's when we deployed 04:54.840 --> 04:56.950 any special message for your wife , 04:56.950 --> 04:59.310 holly and other relatives that may be 04:59.310 --> 05:01.588 in the area . Anything you want to say , 05:02.390 --> 05:04.390 I just want to let them know that I 05:04.400 --> 05:06.289 love them a lot and they're in my 05:06.289 --> 05:09.290 thoughts and prayers and I'll be home 05:09.290 --> 05:13.230 soon . You 05:13.230 --> 05:15.870 come from a family with a long military 05:15.870 --> 05:19.280 history . And Is this something that 05:19.280 --> 05:21.280 you felt compelled to do that ? You 05:21.280 --> 05:24.390 wanted to be part of this uh effort in 05:24.390 --> 05:25.070 Iraq . 05:28.760 --> 05:32.230 Um , I wanted to 05:32.230 --> 05:35.920 be , I wanted to help out after 9 11 05:36.890 --> 05:40.400 and wherever that takes 05:40.400 --> 05:43.900 us um , is where I'll do my job . 05:43.910 --> 05:47.380 But it was definitely 9 11 driven . 05:49.980 --> 05:52.091 Did you decide to enlist back to that 05:52.091 --> 05:55.730 time ? That's a reenlist . 05:57.560 --> 05:59.393 Do you think you will after your 05:59.393 --> 06:02.490 deployment ends ? Um , you'll be ready 06:02.490 --> 06:06.310 to sign up again . I still 06:06.310 --> 06:08.880 have a good three years on my 06:08.880 --> 06:11.820 enlistment . So we'll see when the time 06:11.820 --> 06:15.720 comes and what do you do back 06:15.720 --> 06:16.500 home Jason 06:20.850 --> 06:24.760 job or Yeah , when you do 06:24.760 --> 06:26.816 back home for your next home visit , 06:28.260 --> 06:31.980 I believe we're going 06:31.980 --> 06:33.990 back in either september october . 06:37.710 --> 06:39.840 The strikers have lost a lot of 06:39.850 --> 06:41.961 soldiers fort Lewis has lost a lot of 06:41.961 --> 06:43.850 soldiers , especially in the most 06:43.850 --> 06:46.128 recent weeks . How is morale right now ? 06:46.128 --> 06:47.850 After all that terrible loss , 06:50.380 --> 06:53.870 morale is always reasonably good at 06:53.870 --> 06:57.820 the striker Brigade . We know what 06:57.820 --> 07:01.460 our job is over here and we do a 07:01.470 --> 07:04.190 really good job getting the mission 07:04.190 --> 07:05.190 done , 07:08.380 --> 07:12.380 be safe and be well and well . Welcome 07:12.380 --> 07:15.400 you home back in the cool green Seattle 07:15.400 --> 07:18.760 soon . All right , thank you . 07:18.770 --> 07:21.050 Thank you , Jason .