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- The examiners here come from

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the Defense Forensic Science Center,

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located at Fort Gillem, Georgia.

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They all have different
educational backgrounds

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in forensic science that
come together in our lab

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to create the total
picture of the evidence

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that we receive and exploit

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and turn into that valuable intel.

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My name is Lieutenant Colonel Pete Cruz.

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I am the Lab Director for the

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CENTCOM Forensics Exploitation Lab,

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here at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

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My job here is to provide an atmosphere

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for the forensics
examiners to operate freely

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and free from distraction as they examine

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and exploit evidence from the battlefield.

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- [Technician] We do a lot of the swabs

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that get sent to DNA.

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- We have a biometrics capability

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through latent prints and DNA.

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Chemistry, our drug analysis.

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We have our UAS/UAV examiners.

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We have our firearms
and toolmark examiner.

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And we also have our electronics
exploitation examiner.

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There's a lot of soldiers, seamen, airmen,

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out there that really
don't know what we do.

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We have a whole host of capabilities

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that we can use to exploit evidence

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and help paint that
picture for the Commander,

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for the actual soldier on the battlefield.

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And they capture all of that data

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and turn that into an intel product

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that we can send back to
other intel service centers

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for the strategic picture as
well as the tactical picture.