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tell me this is your second appointment

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over in Iraq . Tell me about what your

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unit is doing over there . I'm over

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here in Iraq and I'm a mechanic .

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I run a motor pool over an HD fourth

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Brigade . What are some

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of the things that you've been doing ?

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I understand that you've been working

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on building better facilities for the

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truth there . Oh , yeah , yeah , we've

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been working on they just setting up a

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lot of sewage plants and water and

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electricity for everybody .

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Okay ? So there , because there's been

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a lot of reports about uh sort of uh

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lack of progress in that kind of area ,

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that it sounds like things are maybe

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going better over there than a lot of

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us know . Oh , yes , ma'am . Things are

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things are a lot of things are real

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good over here there .

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Uh

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uh it's getting it's getting better

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over here . Yeah .

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Well , tell me this is your second

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appointment , is that right ? Yeah ,

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this is my second deployment .

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Oh , I was pretty excited . I was

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I was pretty excited to come back .

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Uh I had

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uh , go

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ahead , I'm sorry . Uh I had

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a lot of thoughts and interests

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on what was still going on over here

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and I was just a little bit excited

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to get back over here and

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uh you know , continuing to help the

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Iraqis get their freedom .

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Yeah , So

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you have , what is whether the feedback

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that you've been getting from the

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Iraqis on what you're doing over there .

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We've been getting a lot of good pause

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with their feedback from them . Yeah .

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Like what , well ,

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we're helping them set up a lot of

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stuff and uh , they're able to go out

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and walk around , uh , and

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be able to be safe and uh , go out

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basically , uh , do a

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lot of things that they weren't able to

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do before . You say it's it's pretty

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safe over there , because there's been

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a lot of reports , like car bombings

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and that kind of thing . Um , they're

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not worried about going out in public

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and getting blown up at all . Uh , well ,

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I can't exactly speak on uh , that

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situation , but I know that we're

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setting up a lot of things for them to

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uh , be able to go shopping and be able

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to go down to the markets .

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Uh , things are getting real , things

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are getting better over here , man .

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Okay , well , that's good to hear . How

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about you ? Are you so scared over

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there about any kind of violence and

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that kind of thing , especially with

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the election occurred in the past

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weekend ? Well , I don't

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know exactly . Uh , I don't want to

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sound like I'm not scared of anything ,

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but I'm a soldier in the United States

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Army and uh , it's my job

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and uh , it provides it

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so everybody else can enjoy their life

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in the United States . Right ? Um , so

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tell me about when the elections took

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place when there was a really great

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turnout , even among the Sunnis , um ,

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and , you know , not a whole lot of

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violence is was predicted . What did

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that do for troop morale over there ?

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Well , I believe that made it realize

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that we are doing a good job and

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uh since there wasn't a lot of violence ,

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I feel that they're realizing that we

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are doing a good job over here . Right .

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You think that the insurgency is is

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sort of in its last throes as the vice

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president has said or do you

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think well , I don't want to get too

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political on this interview . Uh

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I I I support , I support my

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leaders

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100% .

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Right , But do you think that you think

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that that the election was sort of a

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blow to the insurgency over there ?

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What do you well , yeah , I I

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feel that they feel that

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they're they actually are going to be

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able to do stuff on their own and

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it makes it a positive environment all

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around . Okay . Um

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so how long have you been there been

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over there in total ? Oh

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total , I've been here for

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28 months total .

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Um but you say things are going good

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over there , things are getting a lot

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better . Yes ma'am . Since the last

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time I was here .

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Okay , what are some of the said

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best developments that have been going

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on ? Well now we have

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telephones that we can call home

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with , we can send a few emails out

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here and there and uh the male is

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working a lot faster now .

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Okay . Wait , oh

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sorry , go ahead . Although I was just

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gonna say those are just a few things

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that I can think of that have gotten

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better .