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Welcome

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to Iron Chronicles . The official

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newscast for task force Iron , I'm

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specialist Matthew Coffee . The

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military working dogs that contingency

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operating base Spyker went out for a

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little bit of bite work Specialist Jim

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McKenny tells us more military police

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specializing in canine come from all

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over the US to make up the team at Camp

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Speicher Air Force Staff Sergeant Jason

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unesco has been working with his dog

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eric for over a year and a half today

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we're gonna be doing bite work

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aggression training and you're gonna

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see a couple of guys getting a suit

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over here and they're gonna send the

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dog by a few people . Most of the war

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dogs in Iraq are trained in explosives ,

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but they all know how to bite

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specialist Dennis Tackett explains one

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of the exercises the dogs are trained

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in if we're working the road and we

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actually apprehend a suspect and were

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needed to do the search . We related

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the suspect in the prone that way ,

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it's a safer for us . The dogs trained

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to just guard and if the suspect makes

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any sudden aggressive movement , they

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get bit , it's mainly for our safety .

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It's just a safer way of doing a

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regular search . These war dogs are

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helping task Force Iron lead the way

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and find that both explosives and

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narcotics .

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Now Captain Teresa Pearson from Task

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Force Iron Public Affairs Office brings

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those frontline photos .

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The Iraqi soldiers , Russian village

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toenail thought . Operation

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civilians teach soldiers how to

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fight higher the Iraqi policeman stops

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to motorcycles at a checkpoint for

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violating first . So just scrambled for

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a loose ball when adjusting killed near

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the Kirkuk province Rogers , Children

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say as Iraqi traditions as freely as

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part of their homes near the problem

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girls die out different units possess

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different skills which make each unit

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just as valuable as another . When it

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comes to the global war on terror , one

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unit uses their skills but has

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developed new ones . Specialist john

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Bentley has the story . Soldiers from

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the 2nd 3/20 field artillery regiment

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are known throughout the first Brigade

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Combat Team , 101st Airborne Division

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as the balls of the Eagle . When it

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comes to a battlefield environment ,

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the balls of the Eagle soldiers are

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usually known for firing big guns at

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distant targets , but these soldiers

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are playing a different role in the

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fight against the counter insurgency .

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The artilleryman continue to fire their

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guns , but they also do the job that

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the infantrymen have taken on as well .

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They have to win the hearts and minds

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of the people and at the same time

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being able to get rid of the people who

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want to disrupt the harmony and the

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progress of this country is trying to

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make these soldiers are getting help

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from brigade support battalion soldiers

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in order to play this well successfully .

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The support soldiers are part of the

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2nd 3/20 Forward support company . They

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make trips from L . S . Anaconda to

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Barbara Ryan every day escorting

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civilian contractors , soldiers deliver

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the mail and breakfast while the

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civilian contractors pick up the basis

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trash , global water supply and clean

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portable restaurants . Uh , I think

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it's really important that we supply

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them for everything They need to go out

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on their clips on their combat patrols

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so that they have everything in the

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artillery men are receiving a helping

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hand from the second three 27th

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infantry soldiers . In addition to

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support soldiers . The majority of the

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balls of the eagle soldiers , including

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the command sergeant major , conduct

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combat operations as well as frequently

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engaged the local population in order

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to gain information concerning enemy

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extremists and weapon caches . Um , I

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have always said , I will never expect

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the soul to do anything that I first

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will not , we're willing to do myself .

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Um , so that's just how it is ,

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commands are major . Each step has

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served in previous Iraq deployments ,

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but this is the first time he has had

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to play the part of an infantry men in

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his battalion has been doing it since

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the beginning of the Iraq war , causing

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some to start calling them infant

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Hillary Man reporting from valid Iraq

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on specialist john Bentley . So that's

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it for this edition of Iron Chronicles

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for Task Force on Public Affairs

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Specialist Matthew Coffee