and for the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. talk about you with r.t. and live from moscow one more recent sure i like the original stories don't i don't for my general ratko blood issue denies charges of genocide in front of the hague tribunal claiming he was just defending his own people meanwhile serbia finds that handing him over has done little to speed up the e.u. membership it had hoped for. nato has extended its military campaign in a different and deployed a touch helicopters there for the first time as a spark concern for the alliance is preparing a ground invasion of the country. cost of the spread of a deadly e.

coli outbreak in europe and all the hysteria it's claimed at least nineteen times mostly in germany and it crippled european food markets false accusations the spain was the original source of the contamination may have its fruit and vegetable exports sand for the pressure on a struggling economy. and the man suspected of shooting dead a journalist anna politkovskaya is officially charged first look at this claim they have enough evidence to prove the traction there told the truth. about iraq at the top of the hour but you stay tuned for our documentary on three generations of american soldiers they tell their stories of how they were led to the military and how it changed that lives forever part one of moving as now right here on our team .

to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but could be a good soldier and to be in combat. that's where you belong. and that's the southerner in me in time of war that's where you belong. that's necessary. probably to one of my children because. i needed to get out of necessity of the water. then arbor michigan to work on a harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back.

while i was in jackson and i would like to induction center and signed up. this is a possibility there were five textile mills and i want to for about two months and looking for a job and finally. one of the whole neighborhood around for years had pretty i get a job in the cotton mill. i was straight in the army recruiter. i grew up in the trailer park i grew up in a little small town called pear land texas near galveston i remember sitting on a child's and 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 and seeing how quickly. and the hoopla afterward and from the liberated feet. so great to be an american i had filled the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the couch at night and thinking i saw your you go into you know to go into the military. be doomed. so we got married on day thirty if it's the same or night say six if i so and i left on january third of night change six to six from the vietnam so it's right across penn mountain moment in vietnam.

we went from wrong tower to pay and why we're there for what they call the orientation period you know to get meals to the climate and to actually get used to the sounds or. the first couple of weeks i was terrified every not. and after my first rethink i went back to my i just cannot sleep i like to think i was going to be going to shoot in the course 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 their combat assault in. and i heard the radio and the power of the one of the reply said this is red lead we're talking five and all i could hear in the background was. now i try to relax and i try to forget about it and it would scan right back this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i had to stop and be shot in. a helicopter pilot you have both hands full so your gut instinct is to fight it. but there's no place to hide you're looking through a clear plexiglas window and the surrounding will and you see little flashes and you know that people are shooting just hope they don't hit you. from that point although. i think i realize 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 to us when we got there i remember that why'd you take so long there was no welcome. being a replacement which is the most god awful courage going to have one human being. you're going to conduct you don't know anybody 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 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 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 roll into these towns been like a bunch of cowboys shooting the place.

we went into the rashid. there was an actual military compound it's a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and i started asking me what was going on because there were some demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of mad any weapons and he said no. and so what are you going to. you know they're going and states a coup against sister 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 beat and tear up an m.r.e. and all sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind the humvee. as soon as i step out from behind mommy mommy marines are destroying their weapons and the demonstrators so

on selling my weapon and i put the stock up and. the plot 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'm aiming at the 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 start 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 yours heard to say well who opened fire. i don't know.

where when we did the reconnaissance and as we're driving off 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. now i thought to myself for a split second i said. you know these people didn't have any weapons we just shot at bunch of the normal. 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. how does i'll be honest with you chalked it up. i really did. pose

a you know. how did we know. so and after we arrived in coach he we didn't know that we had built up a scout. base complex of tolerance and i'm so what little was the program was a little by sniper fire or at times of mortar fire. i felt that we had everything go on against us where they were just that the car

are. creatures of nature it's the snakes. a spider. i don't know is a different smile. especially if you were in babel i know i've heard many people say you can't smell blood but to me not so i. you can smell it i remember early on i think it was then a pool. six to six we were out in over a woods and it was people in a rice feel that we didn't know what they were at on the black pajamas

and so hats and we had an hour and in that short period that we were there i did everything in black pajamas was the enemy so we opened fire on them. we were able to go and physically loka them and they had no weapons and they looked to be teenage children young very young. so you have that doubt in your my when one reality hit you you know. why did i feel that i kill innocent here or was it a call as of course and that's never answered. that

experience of being fired yet while i had to stop the rise unnerving so i. asked to be transferred to the armed helicopters because they never struck a shoot rockets and machine gun which. i don't think i really thought about what your job was. but. at some point. you you come upon a situation where you see people you have to share. and you have a machine gun and we call it a zone unveiled because it looks like a 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 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 trying to do it so. a little it was pretty tough i tried to. not see or. out that it didn't hit anybody or he only saw the building nice well i didn't see the people. i got hit the weather was exactly like this it was cold it was it was foggy was

damp it was september in northern france. we left for done 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 digging a hole. in the dirt because we knew we were going to be a type of artillery and i was had michele in my hand and inside me i was flying through the air like a huge straight chap that hit me and thrown me way into the air and i didn't know it as come back to the ground to look up. in the seventy i fell back. 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 could see the white fat in this huge hole and my but i remember i was lying there and. the many came over and he sort of fixed me up and he was leaning over me and i watched the tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut out the tip 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 hadn't heart 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 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 over. what i remember is being treated with the most formless tenderness and. sometime in male sex the stakes. neighborly to know my proper name was signed our we were alike can a pig swear we were to be hit and the other cop unaids were converging and wipe an enemy out. for what's upright knight you could. see long distances by 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 started over them to see that it startled me. it was firing and i didn't have my weapon was on the guy i call my way up here are. so i managed to get. hang grenades off will. cost a couple good age. now that said. then we could see as far as we could see there would be a crown that was coming up to our program that. we called in for and direct fire and couldn't get it we called in for permission to return. because my comment was getting overrun. so the commander told us that just try to

find a place and spend the night there we told the marshal he was on the one that was kill and one at a bomb crater and we sat there on the i. eventually the mechanizing they came in and we loaded the marching on. his brains actually fell out of an agile we were moving in. that still i still could picture you. remember it said in that corridor on i was. agrement i didn't say it sounded hollow.

but it was easier. to go back and kill more that's part of what drove me. what ruth am i. c. c c.

c. c. some people love to hunt and i love to hunt animals. here move for sale or whatever for whatever suits their fancy. but i can also tell you that there is no other feeling in the world it comes close to harming another human being. that's what you're trying to do. and the drawback to it is if i could you want to do it again. there's your joy. 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 series you're fired and you get that first burst of enjoyment. it only lasts for so long and the high comes to

a low. after wears off it felt to me like there was a more shows and muddy dark waters feels like old 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 combat roles. you get a rush it's like oh. i don't know why you do it but it's first kill it's same hard

you should think about it specially. if you have to kill it close quarters. it up and were killed with. weaponized i think. my waist was built in our forty's people and i wanted to kill. i felt good at the time when i when i did it didn't bother me if i. didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond our friend the call of duty it turned into soft and i said. that i hate that i had grown up in the south i think had expanded. because of what was happening here because so los and people.

that feel i've become an animal i. go kill 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 and then it's on you.

there's so many things happen in a war that put you at odds with your sense of right and wrong. i've seen things that would be described as is war crimes. that the sergeant who had the ring of yours who. is not a secret i mean he's walking around with a big wiring with human ears pushed through the logan they're all hanging on the ring these are people he has cut off their ears to try to get information. from. shooting civilians. you don't really call it it's not like you're shooting a scene. it's like. collateral damage.