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Okay . What's your job ? My

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job is a 11 charlie have a mortar

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gunner . Okay . And are they

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keeping you busy ? Oh , yeah , sure .

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It what uh tell me

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some of your day to day for you ?

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What's it like during the day ? What do

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you do ? Well , me and my consumer

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going missions and patrol the streets

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and make sure everything's going good

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in the towns . But other than that ,

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not really all that much is going on

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over here . So we're just playing it

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day by day , keeping safe . Okay ,

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where are you guys ? What's your area

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of operation ? Our area of

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operation in Mosul . Okay .

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All right . It seems like there's been

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a lot of activity there . What is this ?

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What is this uh ,

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urban thing like ? I mean ,

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I a little jungle stuff in my time ,

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but I can't imagine this downtown

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thing dealing with that . How do you ,

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how do you handle that ? Well ,

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you pretty much got to keep your eyes

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and ears open at all times . I mean ,

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there's a lot of buildings , there's a

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lot of traffic , a lot a lot of vehicle

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born IEDs . You gotta make sure you're

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driving down the street . You can't

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make sure nobody's going to come up

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from behind here to the side of you and

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grandma and try to blow you up or try

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to run over any IEDs . That's pretty

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bad . Have been putting a lot of those

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out lately and you've been avoiding

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them . Thank God . But other than that ,

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you just got a 360 degree of security ?

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Keep your eyes and ears open and hope

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you don't get any any contact .

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Are the uh what's it been like

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since the election ? It's gotten better ,

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worse election ? Yes . Since the

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election ? Well , to me

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it's the same . I don't feel it hasn't

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gotten any worse or any better . So

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it's already . And what about the

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people you guys in addition to

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patrolling and uh you're also kind of

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ambassadors , you deal with the people ,

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the kids . A lot of kids . There's a

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lot of kids . I mean you stop in a

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talent and you know , they come up to

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asking for candy and soccer balls and

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water and food and there's a lot of

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kids over here . It's pretty cool at

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first , but after a while , you know

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kids start getting on your nerves . But

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that's all right . I think that happens

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if your parents too . But uh

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okay . Is everybody uh anybody back

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here you want to say hi to or leave a

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message for ? Uh Yeah . My wife Nicole

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and my two daughters , Jasmin and

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Makenzie , I love you very much . I

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miss you . And hope to see you soon . I

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just want to say hi to all my parents

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back home . Uh Love your mission . See

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soon . Alright , specialist Close .

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Thank you very much . That should That

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should wrap it up . All right . Thank

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you . Thank you