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My name is Staff Sergeant Lord Avila Jr

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uh I am with able company 35 or nine

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and I might squad leader in third

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platoon . Okay , what's your hometown ?

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My hometown is san Antonio texas . All

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right . Uh , first of all , tell me

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what operation you guys participated in

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tonight . We participated in Operation

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Geronimo Strike . Uh We were tasked

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with taking down several target

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buildings . My squad was the main

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effort on one of those target buildings .

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Uh once we reached the objective , we

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successfully captured one H . V . T .

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And a small weapons cachet . Okay ,

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that's pretty much overview . A

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specific . Uh how big was

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the mission tonight ? With a squad

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couple of tonight . The mission

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consisted of company level mission . Uh

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all three of our platoons across the

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headquarters elements . And we also had

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an attack aviation involved . Okay . Uh

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now , how long did it take you from a

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safe uh landing zone ? Uh

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how long did it take you get ? Uh from

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the time we touch down to reach our

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target building , it took us no more

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than five minutes to reach our target

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building . What area was your objective ?

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I believe our objective was in a oh

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Eindhoven uh from

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briefings and everything .

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Uh everything I've

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seen so far . How hostile the area

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uh area we went into tonight . All the

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intel was telling us that it was gonna

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be a very hostile area . Upon reaching

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the objectives . Uh there wasn't too

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much resistance that was present when

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we arrived , Once you got into your

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objective is reached and everything

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else uh briefly tell me what you found .

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Uh once we made initial entry into the

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building , we found several women and

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Children uh to military age males .

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Upon further search of the area , we

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ended up finding one Ak 47 2

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bandoliers of ammunition and several

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hand grenades . Uh Once the

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commission was wrapped up , one of your

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guys leave the objective . Uh Once

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we uh were given the order to roll up ,

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we left the objective with two

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detainees , plus all of the evidence

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that was obtained during the sensitive

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site exploitation . Uh

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how do you feel missions like these ?

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You are overall michigan . I feel these

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types of missions uh when we do in fact

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captured the VTS , we're going after ,

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It provides uh very good intel on

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that's going to help us out with

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further operations . Uh a

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standard mission for your company . Yes .