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washington wants to send texts warning people of possible extreme weather and terror attacks a move some analysts say will make the populace more fearful and not a more informed chip will be placed me should american cell phone meaning users will get the alerts whether they want them or on. coming up with all the journeys of four veterans that explore how being a good soldier became synonymous with being able to pull the trigger without hesitation special report coming up. paneled on this moment prompted you. to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but to be a damn good soldier and to be in combat in. the komi.

granted that's where you belong. and that's the southerner in me in time of war that's where you belong and you think. i had left mr sethi. probably join my junior year because of the anger i had a girl whatever i needed to get out of mississippi or probably. take a mob here and then harbor michigan to work on the harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back to. thought i was in jackson i wanted to live the induction center and signed up i believe i believe. i actually found can you see me. this is a cotton mill or there were five textile mills and i want to run for about two

months and looking for a job and finally one of the old neighborhood greats had done around for years as per i get a job in the cotton mill. i went straight to the owner of her. mommy. the internet in tacoma. i grew up in trailer park i grew up in a little small town called perelandra texas that's near kallstrom and i remember sitting on a couch and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick the wind and the hoopla afterward and from the liberated be too. awful great to be an american eyes filled to we had

lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the tiles that night and thinking most of you want to go into here you know to go into the military. be doom doom. so we got married on the thirtieth of peace amber nineteen sixty five. and i left on january third of nightrain sixty six school in the vietnam so it was like i spent my on him alone his vietnam alone. we went from bomb tower to ben was were there for what they caught or at taishan perry you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to

the sirens or. the first couple weeks i was terrified everyone. and after my first meeting i went back to my bed not i just could not sleep. all i could think of sin to begin to shoot i mean across 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 red flight said this is red lead were taken fire and all i could hear in the background was. now i try to relax and i try to forget about it

and it was coming right maybe this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i had to stop and be sorry i'm. a helicopter pilot you have both hands full so your gut instinct is to fight it. but there's no place to house you're looking through a clear plexiglas window and the surrounding woodland you see little flashes and united people shooting to dissipate they don't hit you. from that point although. i think i realized that it is possible to doubt. that. we were a bunch of thirty guys in a two and a half ton truck put in as replacements no real training and we couldn't find the

division. we finally found it in the first thing he said was already got there i remember that why do you take so long it was no welcome. being a replacement which is the most god awful curse you can have on a human being. you're going to conduct 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 lifter it at the wrong time fire at the wrong time anything to attract fire victim 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 and 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 hello to me care about how i hate to say it but i didn't really care about anybody that was outside of my platoon. once we crossed into iraq we were roll into these towns like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place up. we went into the rashid. it was an actual military compounds and huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and started asking me what was going on because there were some

demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of them had any weapons and he said no. and so what are you going to. do you know they're going to stage a coup against a store or anything like that and he said no they they're just down there said and you know chant and yell and i go behind my home v. and terrapins an m.r.e. and all sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind my humvee. as soon as i stuff out from behind my own be my marines are destroying their weapons and the demonstrators so on selling my weapon and i posted the stock up and. it was 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 you've got the head i mean we. center mass but i don't know who called ceasefire 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 know i heard a gunshot that went over our heads and i said did you hear heard to say well who opened fire. i don't know. where when we did the reconnaissance and as we're driving by. as we draw the body bodies i'm looking down at the at the ground and not seen any any weapons they were wearing traditional. jalapenos and. course they were soaked

in red with blood. no i thought to myself for a split second i said. you know these people didn't have any weapons we just shot at a punch at the norm. protestors. and then a little voice and then your head goes off and this is well that's war. that's what happens in war. so i just i'll be honest with you chalked it up. i really did choice that person you know. how did we know.

so on after we arrived in coochie we didn't know that we had built up a scout. of these complex of problems and i'm so with loads of people almost daily by sniper fire or at times in the water fire. i felt that we had everything borne against us right there it was just that the car on. the creatures of nature itself the snakes. hate spiders. i don't know the difference. especially if you were in battle i know it for many people so you can't smell below but i mean.

you you can smile about it and i remember early on i think it was and hey paul. sex and sex were already and all the words and. it was people in a rice field that we didn't know what they were they had on the bright pajamas and it's all hat and we had an orange and that's our period 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 rock at them and they

had no weapons and they looked to be teenage children young very young. so you have that doubt in your mind when one reality hit you you know. what did i kill that i kill innocent here i was a call that base of course and that's never answered how. mark. foley . that experience of being fired while i had to stop the rise unnerving so i. asked to be transferred to the army helicopter because they never stuck they shoot

rockets and machine guns. i don't think i really thought about what your job was. but. at some point. you come upon a situation where you see people you have to. when you have a machine gun we call it hasan unveiled because it looks like a constant spray. seeing people move. and seeing. women and children go into a house and being told that this isn't in any location. you. have to aim at this building and you have to far you 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 some. most people. a soldier has to be trying to do it so. initially it was pretty tough tried to. not see. to hope that it didn't hit anybody or they only saw the building exploded in sympathy for. the day i got hit the weather was exactly like this it was cold it was there it was foggy was damp it was september in northern france. we left for john that morning we were to cross the moselle we were on one side of the river and you were being destroyed by the cherry shells coming the other way.

i was getting off. in the dirt because we knew we were going to be attacked or our children and i was had my shovel in my hand and inside me i was flying through the air like a few sledgehammer. me and thrown me way into the air and i get nervous come back to the ground i went up and up and suddenly i fell back to. put my hand up and i felt a piece of some in my head 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 can see the white fat in this huge hole in my but i remember i was lying there and. the medic came over and he tried to fix me up and he was leaning over me and i

watched him from his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut off the top of his nose and then the blood from his nose emerged with my nose. and the next thing i knew i was in a stretcher i still don't hawk 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 honestly sure and they drilled with a 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 and formulas tenderness and.

some time in male sex to say. you know girlie channel my cop an alias and our we were like can a pig swear we were a q.b. . and the other cop and aids were converging and ripe and the enemy out. there was upright knight you could. see long distances by them. we have an arc for quite a while on this patrol and i hadn't seen anything so we relaxed how i watched something car and stepped out of the bushes. and it started ok on to see us there and it startled me when. it was firing and i didn't have

my weapon was behind the guy i brought my way up here are. so i managed to get. anger in a tough love will. cost a couple grenades. and we could see as far as we could see there were viet cong that was coming up to our parameter . and we called in for direct fire and couldn't get it we called in for permission to return. because not often it was getting overrun. so well commander told us and just try to find a place and spend the night. we took the marshy and he was the only one that was killed and when a bomb crater and we sat there on i.

eventually mechanizing and he came in and we loaded the marsh on. his brains actually fell out and when we were moving in. that's still that's still a bit curious there were a number seven and the crater on i with. our current member that it's a it sounded hollow. but there was easier

to go back and kill that's part of what what drove me. well for the end. at least sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep some people love to hunt i love to hunt animals. do your most for sale or whatever whatever suits your fancy.

but i can also tell you that there is no other feeling in the world that comes close to hunting another human being. that's what you're trying to do. the drawback to it is the fact that you want to do it again. because you enjoy it. it's almost kind of like a drug and you become addicted to it but after a while like with any like with any addiction. you know as soon as you're fired and you get that first burst of enjoyment. it only last for so long and the high comes to load after wears off if felt to me like everything was just muddy and dark waters feels like a swimming you know in a big well we were for to run the marine corps as a ship. and. you find yourself.

looking for work to the next. mission or for a combat role. you get all right it's like a rug. i don't know why you do it but that first kill is the same hard you should think about especially if. you have to kill it at close quarters. it up and where they kill to work. with

a knife i think. my braces with children are forty people and i wanted to kill. i felt good at the time when i when i did get private may have fry . didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond an hour from their call so do it it turned into something else that. the hate that i had had growing up in the south i think had expanded. because of all this happening here and now because so most of the poor. i feel i've become an animal i. took a year or 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 at least one time to put that warrior ethos in effect and then once you've done it. then it's on you. as so many things happen in a war that puts you at all odds with your sense of right and wrong. i've seen things that would be described as is war crimes.

the sergeant who had the ring of the earth. who. is not a secret i mean he's walking around with a big wiring with human ears pushed through the low but they're all hanging on the ring these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information. from shooting on civilians. you don't really call it and it's not like you're shooting a scene. it's like. collateral damage. all

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