WEBVTT 00:00.057 --> 00:01.051 - Interview. 00:01.051 --> 00:02.968 Ty, I'm gonna crush it. 00:03.897 --> 00:04.730 Yeah. 00:04.810 --> 00:08.143 - [Woman] All right, go ahead and start. 00:08.160 --> 00:11.322 - [Interviewer] First, tell me your first and last name, 00:11.322 --> 00:15.155 your unit, you know rank, battalion, all that. 00:15.926 --> 00:16.991 - You want my rank and all that? 00:16.991 --> 00:19.741 - [Interviewer] Yeah, rank, unit. 00:20.780 --> 00:22.410 If your name is like hard to spell, 00:22.410 --> 00:23.616 tell me how you spell it. 00:23.616 --> 00:24.449 - (laughs) Okay. 00:24.449 --> 00:27.048 - [Interviewer] And then, like your home town. 00:27.048 --> 00:27.881 - Okay. 00:28.414 --> 00:29.541 - [Interviewer] Just say all that now, 00:29.541 --> 00:31.904 and I'll get it recorded so I can make your title. 00:31.904 --> 00:32.737 - Okay. 00:33.306 --> 00:34.139 - [Interviewer] Go for it. 00:34.139 --> 00:36.236 - All right, my name is Second Lieutenant Brian Knop. 00:36.236 --> 00:38.098 To appear for Second Platoon, 00:38.098 --> 00:40.348 Bravo Troop 1180th Cavalry. 00:40.993 --> 00:43.849 And my home town is Liberty, Missouri. 00:43.849 --> 00:44.859 It's where I grew up, 00:44.859 --> 00:47.678 and I currently reside in Dallas, Texas. 00:47.678 --> 00:51.637 - [Interviewer] Okay, turn just this way just a little bit. 00:51.637 --> 00:53.054 Then, look at me. 00:53.888 --> 00:54.744 There you go. 00:54.744 --> 00:56.979 All right, so this is your first deployment? 00:56.979 --> 00:58.477 - This is my first deployment. 00:58.477 --> 01:00.599 - [Interviewer] Okay, so how do you feel about that? 01:00.599 --> 01:02.628 - I think it's a little bit of fear of the unknown, 01:02.628 --> 01:04.184 but overall I'm excited about it. 01:04.184 --> 01:08.239 I feel very fortunate to be able to deploy as a platoon. 01:08.239 --> 01:11.460 - [Interviewer] OK, so what would be your job and stuff 01:11.460 --> 01:12.793 while you're there? 01:12.793 --> 01:16.521 - I would be leading Second Platoon and we will be managing 01:16.521 --> 01:19.076 two capabilities, or sections, we're each gonna be running 01:19.076 --> 01:22.909 capabilities, pulling security at the airport. 01:23.891 --> 01:26.740 I don't know how much I can say, as far as OPSEC goes. 01:26.740 --> 01:28.975 - [Interviewer] If it is, I won't have it. 01:28.975 --> 01:30.930 - OK, we just start that over. (laughs) 01:30.930 --> 01:32.699 - [Interviewer] Okay, you're fine, whatever you wanna do. 01:32.699 --> 01:35.532 - OK, so I will be Second Platoon, 01:37.451 --> 01:39.404 there's gonna be a few outtakes here. (laughs) 01:39.404 --> 01:40.790 - [Interviewer] You're fine, it's no big deal. 01:40.790 --> 01:41.810 - Alright, cool. 01:41.810 --> 01:44.445 So I will be the platoon leader for Second Platoon, 01:44.445 --> 01:47.126 so I'll be managing two capabilities of each of my section 01:47.126 --> 01:49.338 will be running a capability, providing security 01:49.338 --> 01:51.184 at the airport in Kabul. 01:51.184 --> 01:54.621 So we will be pulling mainly security around the airport, 01:54.621 --> 01:56.888 occasionally leading to head down to the Green Zone, 01:56.888 --> 01:59.228 shuffling different people back and forth. 01:59.228 --> 02:02.811 So essentially, I'm an armed mobile escort. 02:04.462 --> 02:06.183 - [Interviewer] So are you excited about goin'? 02:06.183 --> 02:07.183 - I'm sorry? 02:07.214 --> 02:08.972 - [Interviewer] Are you excited about goin'? 02:08.972 --> 02:10.352 - I'm very excited to go, 02:10.352 --> 02:12.372 again this'll be my first deployment. 02:12.372 --> 02:13.745 It's the thing that you look forward to, 02:13.745 --> 02:14.746 you trained up for it, 02:14.746 --> 02:17.189 and now you actually get to apply all of that training. 02:17.189 --> 02:19.210 Fortunate to have a great group of guys to be takin' 02:19.210 --> 02:20.793 down range with me. 02:21.922 --> 02:24.113 - [Interviewer] So are you leavin' any family behind? 02:24.113 --> 02:25.780 - I have one, sorry, 02:27.668 --> 02:30.476 I'll actually be leavin' my wife behind. 02:30.476 --> 02:32.728 We don't have any kids yet, so think it makes the situation 02:32.728 --> 02:34.395 a little bit easier. 02:34.418 --> 02:38.346 She's been very supportive and I'm lucky to have somebody 02:38.346 --> 02:41.796 takin' care of all the affairs back on the home front. 02:41.796 --> 02:43.114 - [Interviewer] Okay, it's a go. 02:43.114 --> 02:43.947 - Alright. 02:43.947 --> 02:45.345 - [Interviewer] Perfect.