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conduct surveillance and reconnaissance

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missions as well as down aircraft

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recoveries and also convoy security .

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What's the most difficult part of your

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job ? Most difficult part of the job is

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getting through the mission safely and

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I get hit by any IEDs , which is

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something that actually happened to a

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member of the subject . Different said

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that he lost his life just in the last

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few days . I pray with all of you were

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doing your mission . You had something

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interesting happened recently and we

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have some pictures to kind of describe

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what happened about three weeks ago .

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We were on a routine convoy was a joint

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operation with another platoon and we

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all went to the mission and the local

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national right out in front of convoy

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commanders vehicle and he did that just

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as we took the short term , we get

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pretty fast the guides . So what

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happened just as we took a turn and the

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driver swerved to miss him , went up on

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an embankment and flip the vehicle .

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How we're going

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to probably about 45 50 miles an hour

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and was anyone hurt their

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personnel in the vehicle and committed

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to be medevacked out on the helicopter

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and the other three were taken away by

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ambulance . My understanding is that

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you've got to the scene that quickly

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and you and the others get these people

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out of the vehicle to tend to write .

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My number two was right behind the

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convoy commanders vehicle that flipped

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and we jumped into action . We provide

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security for the vehicle . We also

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called him a medevac helicopter and we

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set up the landing zone for the

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helicopter to come in as well as

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stabilized the casualties that came out

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of the vehicle . Going through your

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mind when you find the vehicle rollover ?

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Keep that question , What's going

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through your mind when you saw all of

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this happening ? It was a

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first thing running through my mind was

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I hope everybody's ok and nobody got

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care . And the second thing going

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through my mind , I just we just got to

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get these people out and get him in the

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helicopter and get him out as somebody

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can , uh somebody more better prepared

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to take care of these people . Was

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there any insurgents

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again ? Was was there any concern that

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there may have been insurgents in that

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area that maybe could have attacked you ?

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What are you doing this ? It's also a

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great concern , no matter what you do

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out here , that's always got to be in

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the back of your mind . Uh no matter

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what kind of operation conduct out here ,

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it's always a possibility for

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15 years .

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Can you get the question piece ? 15

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years . Is that correct ? What you've

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done in your time there ?

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Can you get question one more time ?

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I'm sorry , 15 years . Is that

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correct ?

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I mean , we're talking about your

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military career , You've been in the

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army for 15 years . Where have you been ?

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What have you done ? Okay , I got that

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one this time . I can understand you

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better . I've been in the army for 15

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years . I started off my career and the

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pennsylvania National Guard uh did that

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for about two years . One active duty

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from there have been about six

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different duty stations . The United

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States along with the touring career .

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I've also been before to create Iraq

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for our f one recent return from their

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got state support betting where I'm

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currently serving in baquba Iraq

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for Company B the bloodhounds . I have

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to ask you what that means . The

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bloodhounds . Just a model that we have

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a military intelligence company . So

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you know , that brought down as well

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known for sniffing out clues and

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finding people and that's what the

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military 1000 Company does anybody

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like that ? I'd like to tell my

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daughters according back then and I

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love you very much and I hope you have

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a great day at school . And I was

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telling my wife how much I love you and

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hang in there baby , I'll be home soon .

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Your Children in school . I was

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one of those on school and post and uh

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the other just started freshman year in

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high school . Thanks for your time

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today , sir , john john phillips

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with companies be part of the third

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degree