WEBVTT 00:03.320 --> 00:07.250 Areas for U.S. troops can receive the imminent danger pay affected june. 00:07.250 --> 00:11.000 First bethesda pardon officials say the decision follows about 00:11.000 --> 00:14.650 two years of study by combatant commands in cord nation with 00:14.650 --> 00:18.370 the joint staff in the military services official said a policy 00:18.370 --> 00:21.670 change was not driven by the budget but was part of a routine 00:21.670 --> 00:25.350 re certification that takes place. Every couple of years on mom 00:25.350 --> 00:28.680 the place is no longer designated as imminent danger areas will 00:28.680 --> 00:32.890 be haiti liberia rwanda in kurgistan defense officials say in 00:32.890 --> 00:36.360 any danger pay will remain and the fact for Afghanistan Levin 00:36.360 --> 00:40.740 on Jordan pakistan syria Yemen and egypt the benefit provides 00:40.740 --> 00:44.420 truths about seven dollars and fifty cents a day for a fall list 00:44.420 --> 00:47.600 of the changes to areas receiving in an endangered they go online 00:47.600 --> 00:49.060 to the fenced dog out of. 00:49.830 --> 00:52.730 For servers members in Afghanistan having a bird's eye view of 00:52.730 --> 00:56.780 the battlefield is a big plus army staff sargent Jose a borrower 00:56.910 --> 01:00.320 shows us how some troops are using this guy's to spied danger. 01:02.000 --> 01:07.810 A pair of boots on the ground and horizons sky. U.S. old from 01:07.810 --> 01:10.650 combined task were strewn along with soldiers from the Afghan 01:10.650 --> 01:13.770 national army and the Afghan local police come together. 01:14.300 --> 01:17.900 The mission is to inspecting clear an area in kandahar province 01:17.900 --> 01:22.190 suspected of having possible. I E these improvised explosive devices. 01:23.170 --> 01:26.810 As the convoy moves to the objective and fair support team follows 01:26.810 --> 01:28.610 with the bird's-eye view of the. Battlefield. 01:31.640 --> 01:34.770 And stays in constant communication with sargent brian thomas 01:34.940 --> 01:36.500 the fire support specialist. 01:37.580 --> 01:42.500 Ever. Diminishing my job was to porn a with aircraft to pass 01:42.500 --> 01:45.490 information for myself to them and then back to me basically 01:45.490 --> 01:49.430 what they could see on the ground ahead of my convoy behind rates lines. 01:49.460 --> 01:53.280 Now tops that space the kids even on the ground and that any 01:53.280 --> 01:55.000 estimate danger or threats. 01:55.550 --> 01:57.840 I think it passed me and investment here. 01:58.610 --> 02:01.660 I E D's or one of the biggest a rates here in Afghanistan in 02:01.660 --> 02:04.640 the can be placed in the ground in a matter of minutes saw any 02:04.640 --> 02:08.070 type the suspicious activity seen from the skies quickly communicate. 02:09.220 --> 02:11.400 Right and the other. 02:12.020 --> 02:13.070 There though. 02:14.340 --> 02:19.910 It made me but to me what you're going to be a colors and eyes 02:19.910 --> 02:23.290 on on a couple of people digging on the road that we're we're 02:23.510 --> 02:27.240 we're on and they give us the heads-up bypassing its agree and 02:27.640 --> 02:29.910 the location and actually get no closer look. 02:30.880 --> 02:34.840 The within the find out that gives digging more more fieldwork performing. 02:35.590 --> 02:38.930 Overall with their support and that's a big advantage for us 02:38.930 --> 02:42.480 to have this purity which we know of any threat comes we able 02:42.480 --> 02:45.090 to either Engadget ordeal of easily see it with the aircraft 02:45.090 --> 02:45.530 and stuff. 02:46.410 --> 02:48.210 I'm army staff sergeant was a far. 02:49.010 --> 02:50.850 Kandahar province against it. 02:52.550 --> 02:55.840 The national guard is responding to severe winter weather in 02:55.840 --> 02:59.920 Indiana that state's governor directed. The guard to stage additional 02:59.920 --> 03:04.060 highway assistance teams along interstate snow has shut down 03:04.060 --> 03:07.640 some roads in a driving conditions treacherous national guard 03:07.640 --> 03:10.380 crews have also been busy helping stranded motorists. 03:11.560 --> 03:13.440 Then assign a mission to go north. 03:14.020 --> 03:18.650 Art for small and very he's schools and state government offices 03:18.650 --> 03:19.880 remained closed. 03:20.430 --> 03:23.360 Igrid a service members what the wrote. I am a national guard 03:23.360 --> 03:26.660 are back with their families today. They arrived at the quonset 03:26.660 --> 03:30.340 air base yesterday were your loved ones waiting their men were 03:30.340 --> 03:34.310 deployed in southwest asia in support of operation enduring freedom 03:34.660 --> 03:37.750 their mission lasted several months causing the group to miss 03:37.750 --> 03:39.630 the holiday seasons what their loved ones. 03:40.610 --> 03:44.310 And from happy renewed reunions to sag it buys them was and portals 03:44.310 --> 03:47.590 the or Oklahoma gathered at the army reserve center to send our 03:47.620 --> 03:51.400 dozens of soldiers the army reserve for eighty. First transportation 03:51.400 --> 03:55.460 attachment will be overseas for nine months staff sergeant racial 03:55.460 --> 03:58.750 Berkowitz says while their job can be challenging. It's also 03:58.750 --> 04:00.490 tough on those they leave behind. 04:01.190 --> 04:02.100 I can on them. 04:02.720 --> 04:05.020 Or Comfort idleness. 04:05.540 --> 04:06.680 For moral support. 04:07.240 --> 04:12.060 And that's a really really difficult thing to do when your saint here. 04:12.830 --> 04:15.600 The group will not on the courtney in tractor transportation 04:15.600 --> 04:19.110 of people in things for the U.S. but also help train collision 04:19.140 --> 04:20.250 and Afghan forces..