WEBVTT 00:00.040 --> 00:02.207 the question I wanted to ask you . I'm 00:02.207 --> 00:04.373 sure you've been asked this before and 00:04.373 --> 00:06.262 I apologize if you have to repeat 00:06.262 --> 00:08.262 yourself , But what can you tell me 00:08.262 --> 00:10.207 about this attack that happened on 00:10.207 --> 00:12.610 saturday night ? Well , the only thing 00:12.610 --> 00:14.850 I can tell you is that the patrol was 00:14.850 --> 00:17.460 hit was out doing a patrol and support 00:17.460 --> 00:21.410 of uh the security of our area 00:21.410 --> 00:24.360 and of the Baghdad area . And on the 00:24.360 --> 00:27.200 way back in from patrol , they hit an I . 00:27.200 --> 00:29.367 E . D . An improvised explosive device 00:29.440 --> 00:31.662 on one of our routes back into our base 00:31.662 --> 00:33.810 camp that destroyed the vehicle and 00:33.810 --> 00:37.000 killed four soldiers . Do you think 00:37.000 --> 00:39.560 this is just pure coincidence that this 00:39.560 --> 00:42.690 occurred in in what I'm told is 00:42.690 --> 00:46.110 virtually the same area as the attack a 00:46.120 --> 00:48.510 little over a week ago that also killed 00:48.520 --> 00:52.200 four soldiers ? Well , it was a 00:52.200 --> 00:54.640 different area , a different patrol and 00:54.640 --> 00:56.900 a different route . And it's one of 00:56.900 --> 00:58.840 those things that's extremely 00:58.850 --> 01:02.050 devastating , extremely bad , but it 01:02.050 --> 01:04.217 really was not tied to anything else . 01:04.217 --> 01:06.328 Is just one of those things that just 01:06.328 --> 01:07.994 coincidentally happened . And 01:07.994 --> 01:11.030 unfortunately it did happen to the same 01:11.040 --> 01:13.410 unit because that's one of their areas 01:13.410 --> 01:15.521 and as they go back and forth through 01:15.521 --> 01:17.577 the area , they're the ones that use 01:17.577 --> 01:19.743 those crossroads to come back into the 01:19.743 --> 01:21.854 wasteland . Do you have any reason to 01:21.854 --> 01:23.854 believe general that the insurgents 01:23.854 --> 01:25.966 might have information that this that 01:25.966 --> 01:27.966 the troops that they've attacked in 01:27.966 --> 01:29.854 these two instances , our citizen 01:29.854 --> 01:32.021 soldiers and they feel that they would 01:32.021 --> 01:34.243 be getting more propaganda value out of 01:34.243 --> 01:36.243 it by attacking citizen soldiers as 01:36.243 --> 01:39.530 opposed to conventional soldiers . No , 01:39.530 --> 01:41.363 I don't think so . I don't think 01:41.363 --> 01:43.474 they're targeting us at all the areas 01:43.474 --> 01:45.740 all across Baghdad and all across the 01:45.740 --> 01:48.070 country have varying degrees of 01:48.070 --> 01:51.340 insurgent activity in them and in our 01:51.340 --> 01:54.150 area generally is very low . We haven't 01:54.150 --> 01:55.983 had that many problems . We just 01:55.983 --> 01:58.094 happened to have had a couple here in 01:58.094 --> 02:00.317 the recent past . But the activity that 02:00.317 --> 02:03.900 we find with insurgents is really not , 02:03.910 --> 02:06.300 it's not . So it would be targeted at 02:06.300 --> 02:07.750 any one group 02:07.760 --> 02:11.380 way these bombs are 02:11.390 --> 02:13.420 hidden . I guess it just makes it 02:13.420 --> 02:17.100 extremely difficult to be able to , 02:17.110 --> 02:21.030 uh , see them or detect 02:21.030 --> 02:24.470 them ahead of time . That's true . 02:24.480 --> 02:26.830 Generally , they , the other uses a lot 02:26.830 --> 02:28.774 of ways to hide them . They either 02:28.774 --> 02:30.830 tunnel up under the asphalt and bury 02:30.830 --> 02:32.997 them under the asphalt or they'll hide 02:32.997 --> 02:35.052 them in trash piles or they even hit 02:35.052 --> 02:37.380 them in in uh , carcasses of animals . 02:37.390 --> 02:39.612 And we've also seen them use many other 02:39.612 --> 02:41.723 ways to try to disguise and hide them 02:41.723 --> 02:44.380 and uh , they're very adaptable . And 02:44.390 --> 02:46.390 every time that we , uh , we can we 02:46.390 --> 02:48.612 change our tactics so that we've worked 02:48.612 --> 02:50.890 their tactics and uh , they change too . 02:50.890 --> 02:52.723 So it's a , it's a running fight 02:52.723 --> 02:55.350 between us and them to uh , so when our 02:55.350 --> 02:58.460 mission here , I understand reading a 02:58.470 --> 03:00.800 wire service report that this humvee 03:00.800 --> 03:02.689 and the infinite what happened on 03:02.689 --> 03:04.967 Saturday night was armored , but still , 03:04.967 --> 03:06.800 that wasn't enough to protect it 03:06.800 --> 03:09.770 against what it says was £500 of 03:09.770 --> 03:13.310 explosives . The 03:13.320 --> 03:16.550 vehicles in up armored in 1114 . The 03:16.560 --> 03:18.671 amount of explosives is an estimate , 03:18.671 --> 03:21.040 but no , it was not enough . The it was 03:21.040 --> 03:23.262 a direct hit on the vehicle and because 03:23.262 --> 03:25.373 that it was not enough to protect the 03:25.373 --> 03:27.484 armament was not enough to detect the 03:27.484 --> 03:29.596 vehicle and all the individuals in it 03:29.596 --> 03:31.596 from that amount of explosives . In 03:31.596 --> 03:33.596 light of these two attacks , do you 03:33.596 --> 03:35.540 think there should be some kind of 03:35.540 --> 03:37.484 requests made to have more heavily 03:37.484 --> 03:39.651 armored Humvees for Georgia ? National 03:39.651 --> 03:41.873 Guard troops and National Guardsmen are 03:41.873 --> 03:44.620 over there serving no , I really don't . 03:44.620 --> 03:46.676 I think that the armament is exactly 03:46.676 --> 03:48.898 right for the vehicles that are there , 03:48.898 --> 03:52.040 especially not anymore . So for us than 03:52.040 --> 03:54.860 anyone else . Again , these are just uh , 03:54.870 --> 03:56.926 you know , they don't even time time 03:56.926 --> 03:58.860 will put bombs together to try to 03:58.870 --> 04:01.092 create a bigger blast . And that's what 04:01.092 --> 04:04.810 happened in these two instances . Now 04:04.810 --> 04:06.960 at this point , the names of the 04:06.970 --> 04:09.360 soldiers that were killed this weekend 04:09.360 --> 04:12.070 has not been released . That's 04:12.070 --> 04:13.450 true .