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so it's all about you come back and do this all night so it's fine it's fine person and you know. i we're going to pass the baton. and i'm about to actually go to afghanistan here and you know i got i got not very much time to have fun and. that's why we try to do it they want to go drag and i think having been deployed before yes ma'am thai rak was pretty good nothing bad haven't we lose any advice so those are good good hopefully this year is the same day they start to calm down here and i asked my dad to say no but that's already how i know exactly everything is now so i got some work to be done but i don't make how so it's just what i get paid for you know so i get so i have effort on table for the wife and kid you know . how. three weeks.
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it's only for two your dad now i'll be able to pass my truck down as well so if you think you know i have to do it because. i'm glad. we've got about fifteen or twenty now my phone calls. all within just a minute or two of each other. there's a gunfight and there's a huge gun battle taking place in the courtyard between all the buildings where there's kids. and there's people in
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a lot of folks live there and it was still in the middle of the day. like almost lunchtime. when we found him. he was obviously taking a lot of medication and he had had a little bit of alcohol. this guy had come back from iraq. he had an assault rifle. and he said that he just he just needed to hear he was he was stressed and ordered to relax he just needed to hear the sound of gunfire. first or kicking down doors going to. kick down a door in their own scared. it's exciting definitely. i mean i don't know problem with it i just kind of just go back in the swing of
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things but i think hopes. someone says something to me. like a ball or something more i may get more fights to. spend it. but i never knew anything about his you know that p.s. t v year. as they are. so i never knew we had all those those problems or nothing and. some people come back from four or five deployments they're just fine you know unless they're. they're hiding they're
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really good like that all of a sudden just. you know everything you know is out. in the afternoon i came home it's like i his truck was in the driveway parked getting crazy and everything else they got only went out last night or something and they come in and unlock the door and you know usually just lock the bottom one inside gaza top was locked to the lock it walk in through the door. it happened right here . and i walk in. you know what i see is is feet. you know laying in plain in the hallway and then i see like little red and brown spots and stuff from my first thought is you know oh he
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he got drunk last night and he's passed out on the floor or he was moving something heavy any tripped and he hurt himself. and i come over to arm and then i see my forty five pistol laying on the floor and just you know out the side of his head and everything in just blood blood everywhere blood all over the floor blood all over the couch so i you know just kind of touched him and kicked just. like. you know like i i seen dead before but not dead people by their own hand in my house so you know he's a big looking guy and he's at there and smile all the time and everything in israel outgoing.
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thirty you know i don't know where i got some of it kind of all around you know yeah not really after her a lot of us just don't don't have you know the exposure to actual combat like i've been through combat a couple of times but in my case also driving a truck was kind of hunkered down in prison yes but so i never actually shot in war . and a lot of us don't but we like to. be exposed as soon as we get basic training they use all kinds of different things to shoot and a lot of fun this is fun shooting in war is not a song you have to do to stay alive you know to win the war when the battle here is just one just shooting a person so this is your last unit argosies or paper so it's it's different but they're shaped as personal. as well. so it's not you know i
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thought all the targets are safe there were they thinking. the soldiers treat me as i am an american soldier a moral member of the team sure the people united states are doing well. always place mission first well maybe it's the feet moving with almost aloof on camera and just one physically mentally tough tranquil titian warrior tested rules. always maintained all my equipment and myself. i stand ready to deploy and gauge and destroy the enemies united states of america in close call but only guarding the freedom and american way of life i am american soldier. do you know that my heart my heart their freedom it's called an m.b.a. graham it means is this way. and also that way. i have that
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for the song or. the shotgun and two zero three because i would rather die before i disarm i really. agreeably really like you really. what do you like better country so much that it's the best country in the world it got to be got it. well. by actually what happened. on the way. there were seven confirmed in two thousand and three five in two thousand and four nine in two thousand and five three in two thousand and six six in two thousand and seven fourteen in two thousand and eight and eleven in two thousand and nine to. one thousand can for be suicides at fort hood in two thousand and ten. i guess i
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should say the number of suicides of soldiers assigned to fort hood because he's happened on an off post. the soldier killed himself and. temple one of the neighboring towns in a public restaurant. you know this guy was in a park and around drug town near austin next to a school i mean obviously they all have issues that they couldn't get help for they didn't seek help for. so this is the story about the soldier too was found at the memorial on post. where he did it yes that's the first time that someone has. taken their life or poorly taken their life a place like that on post but this is the first time that it was at a. public and very recognizable place smells very symbolic obviously something.
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more campbell kentucky. has a lot of units on. it seems to be supporting. people. all knowledge or forces here. are the. strongest anywhere. because it's a volunteer all. everybody in the army wants to join the army. or at least doesn't have any other options. there is a huge amount of soldiers coming going here at all. it is the biggest base. it's also a main deployment base. they train here for a couple of months. and then they do play from here. and we have soldiers here that have gone five six seven eight times it's crazy.
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home of the free because of the. brave sometimes our society forgets that. isto i think i can. find a cause worth fighting. to feel on and that. the . matter of no one what is your first thing i thought of something like that and the man that you always look for who are out there all for forty that way out for the hour a man ok got up. to cover the bathroom the clothes and land on the floor he's moving a little bit more closely as he caught a bit of a make. believe it was the last one on the floor moved him over the last one ok.
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ok been a very long korat. be a great a young man are ok but everywhere yes ma'am the last one to go a lot of blood on the go go home and not on the on the rail bank would a done now we're gonna go back to got a building and a hand and a gun with on the floor in your mind and remind me around the bar that on monday night the wind farm on the way i'm going to. be interviewed. by the two. children from.
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and. the hospital and everything started to come back home. for some reason i just had to go. and when i walked in the restaurant there was a young girl there. and i just asked the girl. i need to know. the soldier. commits suicide here and she goes i can't saying thing and i just looked at. the mother of the solver. and i want to go thank you for what aid did but he didn't. and she started crying
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and. i'm so sorry i hope you and that they were in god can forgive me. for. this but that was it. and he has sent that to me at five forty three on the sixth and they said it ten minutes after six is when he said he wanted to follow family traditions. and there's military pretty much all in all for the whole both sides of the family for the man. army and air force and he said he wanted something to challenge him and make him a man. after basic training that was changed a lot i could tell that he really grew up the second tour is when he came back a mess he was having nightmares really bad he said he would see things and he would he would think about it
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a lot. of that time they didn't really know that this was going on with us because he didn't tell. because he had been talking to some other people that were having problems that they were being looked upon like they were me and workless army actually told them that they would tell my son that when he told him he had problems they told him that he was worthless and would never amount to anything and they get it fixed in straight in the had to be. stronger or he would never be anything. i love my country all i do. to repatriate otic is to love your country more than
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yourself. not many people think of it in terms like that but if you join the military for any other reason than that you're probably not to have a good day. so. if i could have stayed in the army i would have. as i did enjoy being an infantryman. i feel for my country like generations of my friends has done. hundreds of years i enjoyed it. there are good parts of it that is the army's issues you how to become a casualty how to be killed they teach you how to deal with facing death. you know teach you how to deal with being. and once you are wounded in your no further use to the army. they get rid of you they warehouse him until you get your medical discharge and go away. when i get stressed out and
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i feel better. simples that bad day go to the range in iraq and i just dumps around feel better. it's still a. piece of shrapnel that's a dug out of my spine it's a piece of the. the bomb was i'm sorry i'm all over the place a pipe basically a huge pipe bomb made with homemade explosives so it was and it wasn't like a mortar or artillery round or anything it was entirely homemade and the iraqi police helped put the bomb in place so i don't want to get into the details of
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what happened in the attack of the steam which are you me i think the things i saw on. because that's what it's not so much the nature of the attack and the aftermath it's the reasoning behind making this more bills that we were attacked in the first place that's what bothers me so much it's just so stupid. our brigade commander was concerned that we would scratch the iraqis furniture i'm not kidding they went on public record saying that. that was one of his major concerns because they complained to him that us where all our gear and having our weapons we've scratched their nice furniture and they did live in pretty nice we
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saw a lot of brand new b.m.w. is brand new ford brand new mitsubishi was driving around our back yes. the army decided to have key leadership and what they meant by that was anybody above the rank of the six like myself would remove their body armor and weapons and leave them in the vehicles and this wasn't optional it was mandatory it was an order and what does me take your body armor what do you are left with. this way and i don't know how much you need your confidence and maybe if you put extra starch in your for about it we're talking about. scratch furniture and poor little iraqis hurt feelings i don't care i don't care if it comes to if is a choice between my safety and making iraqis feel comfortable i'm going to choose my safety every goddamn time sorry if that if that's not politically correct or whatever i don't care this is ambien for sleeping it's.
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a muscle relaxer flexeril my muscles twitch when they get aggravated which is basically all it's on with the what's left of my back twitches and that doesn't feel good so i take this. number prescription for a low grade dosage of zoloft and that keeps me from getting to i still unable to feel things emotionally but it doesn't get out of control so it's just enough to help me get through day day to. so i got nothing good to say about their army. were product they literally use that word in official documents product not a cheeseburger not a pack cigarettes. just for the money. tax free come home for thirty five thousand.
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just not that much but. if it was worth it if you come home alive and with limbs. we have seen the beginning of the iraqi war. we've seen many go. and we've seen less come. they are all excited about going and they get these wartime tattoos and they are ready. and then they'll come back a year later and there's such an emptiness such a force they convince in their eyes. sometimes the top and sometimes i want. we don't progress to talk. well ask you know what is this for who is this war. you want to talk about what
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happened and sometimes they do. most times they don't. there's the boat. that's my favorite coach says you know in a war there are no one hundred soldiers. everybody's affected. and they're just in different degrees. and i work with soldiers so i now i am helpless as i understand the way. it's always been an anti-war coffee house. i'm. i am anti-war my politics are pretty to the left people have called me a traitor and you know protestors are evil especially in
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a town like collina where the brass has a very strong hand the only chairs around. i decided to make it more like a house because a lot of the soldiers need human contact and so this is somewhere they could come and feel at home. when. i. joined because i had problems at home my mother had just been admitted to a psychiatric ward and i was sixteen and then. when i turned seventeen i took my mom to the recruiter and she told me she was she was the real luke issue
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no she was doing she signed for me and the recruiter was cool and so i went off and my dad was in korea at the time that's why otherwise you know i don't have anybody here my i'm a military brat so all my extended relatives are halfway across the united states and the owner is why i'm here is because my dad was in the army and you know and then he went to korea i'm here with my mom my mom goes crazy i have nothing but but the army is an option. i knew i was going to go. when i joined there was no like i'm not going to lie to myself i had expected to lose a bit of my mind myself you know it was it was constant like it was so so far removed from reality and it was such a bombardment. for me. my young mind or whatever. i came home and i couldn't get back in sync with anything you know
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living a normal life and worrying about parking tickets and you know bills and these things and i thought if i go back to iraq i could get away for a year. so i volunteered for my second appointment. sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because i i saw some people who had died and i saw people. get blown up and stuff and being so close to it it doesn't make sense that i should be so close to this and it shouldn't be like what was the determining what's what is it about you know what is it why it doesn't make sense but. more often i'm just afraid. just fraid of.
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things i've seen even though i know them probably won't like they're not going to come get me. and just. what if they didn't have. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p.
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and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker sea it's a step forward. corrects it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this. system.
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good lumber jury was to billy's most sophisticated which will include feet leave doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me reason why you should care about humans. this is why you should care what you're only.
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