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growing concern it's an interest in mongering. and europe's pushing its preferred candidate to take over the i.m.f. has been treated more with wrestling with deep debt as ill russia india and china say it's time for an outsider to get a job. for more news in half an hour start first with assess what it means to be a good soldier our special report next update. to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but can be a good soldier and to be in combat. and. that's where you belong. and that's the southerner in me

in time of war that's where you belong. governesses said. probably two on my journey because. i needed to get out of this is on the water and. then harbor michigan to work on a harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back and while i was in jackson i why two of the induction center and signed. this is a particularly there were five textile mills and i want to for about two months and looking for a job and finally. one of the old neighborhood greats around for years

occurred i get a job in the cotton mill. coming straight to the army recruiter. i grew up in a trailer park i grew up in a little small town called pear land texas near galveston i remember sitting on a child's hand watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick that win and their reply afterward and from the liberation beat. so great to be an american i had filled the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the cal said i and think

unless you want to go into you know to go into the military. we got married on the thirtieth of peace amber nighties six if i so and i left on january third of my chain sixty six for one of vietnam so why a guy spent more on him alone in vietnam. we went from bomb the taliban why we're there for what they call red tape period you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the saddam's or.

the first couple of weeks i was terrified every not. and after my first reading i went back to my bed i just cannot sleep. all i can thank i was going to be there going to shoot never any more because the next day nothing happened. and then. somewhere at about three or four weeks we had an operation where they had thirty helicopters i was circling waiting on my turn to go in this l.z. or landing zone to put the combat assault in. and i heard the radio and the power of the one of the reply said this is red lead which i can fire and all i could hear in the back was. now i try to relax and i try to forget about it and it would skyrocket like this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i have to

stop and be shot in. the helicopter pilot you have both hands full so your gut instinct is to try to. hide. but there's no place to hide you're looking through a clear plexiglas window and the surrounding woodland you see little flashes and you know that people are shooting to this hope they don't hit you. from that point on. i think i realized that it is possible to doubt. that. we were by a bunch of thirty guys in a going to have to truck put in as replace train and we couldn't find the division. we finally found it in the first thing he said to us and we got there i remember why did it take so long there was no welcome. being

a replacement which is the most god awful khursheed going to have on a human being. you're going to come that you don't know anybody and they don't care about you and they were scared to death you were going to do something stupid and lift your head at the wrong time fire at the wrong time anything to attract fire it would get them killed. by january two thousand and three. i found myself sitting in the kuwaiti desert waiting to invade iraq. i told myself you know hey we're here to fight a war this is it you know this is so tough this is what eleven years of training

and you know has accumulated to my main goal was making sure that my men came home alive hell i didn't care about how i had to say it but i didn't really care about anybody that was outside of my platoon. once we crossed into iraq we were rolled into these towns like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place. we went into the rashid. there was an actual military compounds in a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked as one of the entrances. started asking me what was going on because there was some demonstrators down the road and. i asked

him if any of mad any weapons and he said no. and there were already going to. you know they're going to stage a coup against sr anything like that and he said no they are just down there are certain and you know chanting and yelling i go behind my home beat and tear open an m.r.e. and all a sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind me on the. as soon as i step out from behind my humvee my marines are destroying their weapons and the demonstrators so on sling my weapon and i put the the stock up and. the thought of the rifle stock up on my shoulder and i start firing. and i'm hitting i'm hitting the demonstrators no i am. and of course i mean we have a head i mean. center mass but i don't know who called cease fire

all i know is it was kind of like simultaneously we all just stop firing. the lieutenant he comes up to me and he goes what the hell happened. i don't know you tell me sir you're the lieutenant. i said i do you know i heard a gunshot that went over our heads and i said that you're heard to say well the open fire. i don't know. where when we did the reconnaissance and as we're driving by. as we're driving body bodies i'm looking down at the at the ground and not seen any any weapons they were wearing traditional. dollar pose and. course they were soaked in red with blood. now caught myself for

a split second i said. you know these people didn't have any weapons we just shot at a bunch of the norm. protestors. and then a little voice and then your head goes off and so well that's war. that's what happens in war. i just i'll be honest with you chalked it up. i really do. you know. how did we know.

so on after we arrived in coaching we didn't know that we had built the basic out. these complex tunnels. so what it was keep for a lot more space. by sniper fire or at times and mortar fire. or felt that we had everything or in against us right there would just be a car on. the creatures of nature it's the snakes. it's spiders. i don't know it's a different smile. especially if you were in battle i know i've heard many people say you can't swim but i mean i thought i knew

you can see. i remember early on i think it was. paper. six to six we were out in noble words and. it was people in a rice field that we didn't know what they were they had on a bright pajamas and as so hats and we had our and that's our prayer it that we were they had everything in black pajamas was the enemy so we opened fire on them. we were able to go and physically look at them and they had no weapons and they looked to be teenage children young very young. so

you have that dollar in your mouth i went when reality hit you you know. what did i kill that i kill innocent here i was a call the base of course and that's never answered. slowly. that experience of being fired while i had to stop the rise unnerving so i. asked to be transferred to the army all cotton because they never stop they should rockets and machine guns. i don't think i really thought about what your job was.

but. at some point. you if you come upon a situation where you see people you have to be sure. and you have a machine gun and we call it phasing them down because it looks like your conscious brain thanks seeing people move. and seeing women and children go into a house and being told that this is an enemy location. you. have to aim at this building and you have to far be the rockets from machine guns and if you're far enough away it's still not quite like shooting people. but i think it it presents a problem for most people if you think about taking a gun and shooting since. most people can't. a soldier has to be trained to

do it so. initially it was pretty tough and i tried to. not see. top that it didn't hit anybody or you only saw the building explode you didn't see the table. the day i got hit the weather was exactly like us it was cold it was there it was foggy was damp it was september in northern france. we left for a gun that morning we were to cross the moselle you were on one side of the river and you were being destroyed by artillery shells coming the other way.

i was getting off. in the dirt because we knew we were going to be attacked america every and i was had michelle in my hand and inside me i was flying through the air like you sledgehammer it hit me and thrown me way into the air and i didn't know it as come back to the ground i went up. to seventy i fell back. put my hand up and i felt a piece of some in my gym and then i looked at my hands and they were just scarlet with blood and i looked at my back at my butt and my butt was if you could see the white fat in this huge hole in my butt i remember always lying there and you know many came over and he sort of fixed me up and he was leaning over me and i watched tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut off the tip of his nose and then the blood from his nose

merged with my nose. and the next thing i knew i was in a stretcher i still don't know how r.p. yet because i was still paralyzed on my right side and then i had the operation on my head and what i still remember i grit my teeth you see i didn't have any honesty here and they drilled with the drill to start taking all this stuff out and i can still remember it felt like i had put my head on a railroad track and the train had run on. what i remember is being treated with symbols for much tenderness and condition.

sometime in may of six they say. neighborhood my proper name was san are we were like can it be where we were to be hit and the other cop unaids were converging and ripe an enemy our. robots upright night you could. see long distances for them. we had been out for quite a while on this patrol and hadn't seen anything so we relaxed all at once something stepped out of the bushes. and it startled them to see us and it startled me. he was fired and i didn't have my weapon was on the guy i call my way up here are. so i

managed to get. hand grenades off of my well. house a couple grenades. now was it. then we could see as far as we could see there would be a car that was coming up to our program and. we called in for and direct fire and couldn't get it we called in for permission to return. because in order to get mobile. so welcome i'm opposed to just try to find a place and spend the night there we told the marshy and he was on the one that was killed and one other bomb crater and we sat there on i.

eventually mechanizing we came in and we loaded the marsh you know. his brains actually fell out and when we were moving there. that's still that's still the picture you can remember said in that corridor or i was a. hog remembered it is a it sounded hollow. but it was easy. to go back and kill that's part of what what drove me.

what were they and. c. c. c. c. c. some people love to hunt i love to hunt animals. dear with sales or whatever whatever suits their fancy. but i can also tell you that there is no other feeling in the world that comes close to the humming of

other human beings. that's what you're trying to do. and the drawback to it is the fact that you want to do it again. because you enjoy it. it's almost like a drug and you become addicted to it but after a while like with any like with any addiction. you know a series you're fired and you get that first burst of enjoyment. it only lasts for soul and the high comes to a load. after wears off it felt to me like everything was just muddy dark waters feels like a swimming you know in a big you know what we've referred to in the marine corps as a ship pull and. you find yourself. looking forward to the next. mission or for

a combat role. you get all right it's like oh. i don't know why you do it but it's first kill it's. same are you you think about especially. if you have to kill a close quarters. it up and were killed with. with a knife i. my he was we killed in our forty's people and i

wanted to kill. i felt good at the time when i when i did it it bothered me if i. didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond our friend the call of duty and it turned into stopped and i said. that i hate that i had grown up in the south i think i had expanded. because of what was happening in vietnam because so knows and people. i feel i've become anonymous i have. no remorse.

i literally saw young men turn into psychopathic killers. but the great thing about the marine corps is the training process that the young men and women go through gives them all the ability to kill or at least one time to put that warrior ethos in effect and then once you've done it and then it's on you. there's so many things happen in a war that put you at on odds with your sense of right and wrong or. i've seen things that would be described as is war crimes. that the sergeant who had the ring of yours who. it's not a secret i mean he's walking around with

a big wiring with human ears pushed through the open they're all hanging on the railing these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information. on the shooting civilians. you don't really call it it's not like you're shooting a scene there it's like. collateral damage. question is that so much of a taxpayer's money i mean i'd like to give a real serious issues of relevance and even legitimacy as the jostling continues as

it will succeed now disgraced so many trials con. thank you.