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thank society, there is none before that because every one of us is ready for it. well, perhaps not completely reading it. it's hard to prepare yourself for death, but we do know the risks, moves them. we know what our task is and above all. now where it is that we serve, we neg recommended. that was the 1st last my unit ever suffered to them. and the 1st loss under my command than in general, due to a girl sir, dominate me into a video to got just prior. tim junker, tyler, good morning, conrad mitchell. play. how are your comrade, major, your? i often think of them over me, especially again, enough is he was different to all the other near recruits. well, on political career he approached me and asked if he could enroll in my group as long as he wanted to serve in as business unit. he would never knew. i showed him
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a blank sheet from my notebook and said, just to see the sheet schneider will you to or a clean sheet at the moment. it's up to you to prove yourself worthy, active will settle. everything's in your own hands, hooker. people have to make the decision themselves surely wish. if a man wants to put himself to this test to go through this trial, then he must do so. both becoming a soldier was always my ambition to r. o . usually the singer is a chosen arbitrarily holland with the 1st is mostly the soldier with the loudest voice forth in this regard div jenny was always the best one he sang in the school choir and was never embarrassed. you can. so he had no problem singing the army
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with so many people listening to him. ah, we both thought there was still plenty of time before he left that so when the 15th of november, when he had to go eventually came around, was bank the whole night packing his things in a hurry? wonder if he has a sweet tooth. he had one so have his huge hole dole was crammed to the brick with sneakers, chocolate bars and other sweets ladders. he started taking warm clothes out because they didn't fit, but he wouldn't allow me to touch the suite. there was completely out of the question, the fact that it is not what i just knew that everything would be fine. for some reason we were so confident of california because we were going to get married officially after he came back was everything was plant would have been sent out the invitations. how
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could he not come back a little then mirror, thought of it, never crossed her mind, but i'm sorry i can't ah new bird somewhere that heroes and cowards feel exactly the same things for the difference is that the hero moves on any way while a coward stepped back, we'll look. ah, but i from the case natural to be afraid, skeptical when every deployment feels like the 1st. everything repeats itself. yeah . well, yeah. everyone's scared copolla. well, getting ready for the mission. i never think i'm invincible. immortal phyllis?
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nothing like that. i didn't realize that event after the mission was in the classroom with the we dream plans of the conflict corolla. what will change death usually takes the best of us because the bass are always up front in you. because they're the quickest to make decisions look like you have any up of deeds during that fight. i'm a little or ha shocked. oh, do not cross surprise. oh, good. well more. this was the so called his locker terrorist group. it's like know which in just one year before that fight carried out several terror attacks inside augustine lou to bring these people were fanatics, they'd abandoned normal life. lucy, bureau for them. life had become war zullie accordingly. oh, you killed me and you bought this new just or they took part in attacks on the security services give them so they were directly involved in killing law
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enforcement officers, frugal effects and they were responsible for terror attacks and the town of chrysler hargrove. and in fact, the whole chrysler area and biggest on is nestle, which is player one, logan, im, of the special forces are an isolated community. good. i can understand how their wives are able to wait, constantly anxious. daniel bristol, there's you know, even when a special forces soldier is at home with he can be called up at any moment. would you shook off thinking chairs? it means their wives are always waiting, knowing that their man might not come back. zinc and we just did, we had a heart to heart talk once me ain't if guinea at off would you as to what he told me a lot about himself. hm. yeah, i asked more and more questions over bruce. sometimes i didn't even have to ask. i took up the phone, he just took whatever the subject was, and elaborate on it. so i do all that. so when i asked my mother to send me my
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documents, i didn't tell her i was going to sign a contract to serve in a special forces unit. wasn't she might have guessed, but she didn't know for sure. during my 1st deployment, i was lying to her about where i was and what i was doing. oh, didn't that? no, i can't find the words to describe how it feels when you're so tense and anxious with that every phone call. every text message sets your teeth on edge or when he calls and tells you that. com voice of his phone. i'm glad he, we're going on a mission for about 5 days. maybe more. don't worry. i'll call as soon as and back . well i suppose i you tell me too long by why you we had an exam passing it grants you the right to where the special forces chevron and khaki bray eagle moore. that's the 1st stage. every
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one tried really hard. if danny was very strong willed, i used to say stubborn ordinance rules. he would set goals for himself and you could see he was moving on to achieve them full full, ronald it was a good thing when you set yourself ago when you try to achieve it at any cost. the big chill solo to this was in spite of all that of the 222 soldiers who took the exam haul only 33 of those passed. 6 lannie and i were running in the same race. this battle march is the main test, those soldiers, stamina with them on pull him with lunch from the purpose of the test is to make sure that we will know what it's like when you're
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utterly exhausted and still have to drag a fellow soldier along the way. that's a part of the special forces, code holes under no circumstances. will we ever leave one of our guys on the battlefield? i wish you drag your friend because he know that his life is more important than your own. i remember you. i passed the test in my 1st attempt and you've gainey on his 2nd or 3rd. what else? after passing that we could both proudly hold our heads up high. yeah, you know, i feel the exam once in. so did he of guinea. during the test, he was doing pushups. i slapped him on the helmet and said, pull yourself together, boy, no, before i do the login, a lot of things remind me of him. we used to work out together, for example. now had to do it alone
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with time. mr. when i'd ask him to keep time when we were doing the exercises, now i have to ask other guy doesn't work with the phone after i re enlisted, i had no way to stay time. and so he agreed and just like that that his go, he did the cleaning up in i did the cooking, so live together, came home together, was left on the same air bed, woke up every morning and went to service together. watchable. oh, that's enough. what's the time time, nicholas, if he hadn't covered the grenade with his body, lot of other guys would have died in a split 2nd to him. he made a conscious decision and found the courage to throw himself on top of it. he would have sworn it was not for nothing, but we're going out the semi colon slow witted grunts, but we have a purposes of yours. unless we combine terrorism, russia may drown in chaos.
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microphone i mean we took a dog called saba with us on that mission. when you're malala wouldn't want to bring your long it for as long as there was barely enough room in the church worker, then we put her in her lap, which was then she started behaving strangely, jago and running frantically back and forth, whimpering. so she must have felt that she was about to die and would open early after we went several meters along the path winds above us swerved to the site for you. there was a patch with no snow and we saw a hand sure. at that very moment, it opened and militants started shooting from its upper of our island fire on the hatch and commanded barbara to go for the attack. dog jumped
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ahead to you for her, and suddenly the dog let out a very loud howl. then she turned back and covered me with her own body and blocked the machine gun, thought that the medicines were aiming straight at me. though i had to last press for it was so long, so loud and then there was silence. but i couldn't help myself after that, i started crying her one from us. we often think about her home. i've recently taken in with german shepherd puppy more now training him for comma tasks. but i have noticed that she resembles the bava and he sabbott still support via the same look in his eyes as you lie just the way she did. well, there is a very clear resemblance between the 2 of them. is like that i down is i lie down.
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oh, good boy. good boy, weldon. ah, [000:00:00;00] a . it's been 30 years since the soviet union collapsed. long misconduct. good or chill, the one to what the talk so shown where you also trust on one coil or tom. ukraine was one of the independent states that emerge from the ruins of a super bower. i'm doing awesome. good. would you also get on the ball greens? come a little more, michel, a better one more law,
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a finish it does show a watch at the past 3 decades. been likely ukraine. eye witnesses recall the events. this will be more or less of judiciary with a little what are you familiar with that order? i'm not sure, but i did that for months with no idea what else and what other forces were at play, a producer to whom you show engine mushy in those them you put in the kid what it would occur when you did the shows up in the ocean jordan east. take a look at ukraine. 30 years out, the gaining independence. organism, your phone with us are here unless you mean like unity recorded live, but
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a will. it could be issue. you must on hold for a ah yes, of course my health isn't what it used to be before i was wounded. but i'm trying to get back in shape. right now i'm trying to get as fit as a special forces officer is supposed to be. what i'm, i'm preparing my family and friends for the idea that i'm not going to resign you,
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but i tried to explain to them there's no one who's ever going to take my place on the missions we carry out. i just have to learn the lesson of my wound done was have i enlisted in the army at the age of 18? i was at college then finishing my 1st year. i left to when my summer examinations were in full swing and went to a sped snots unit for the yeah, i'm fully aware of what happened in what could have happened in that battle. i've long since prepared myself for any possible outcome. mean of this. what up there are still people who tried to make me change my mind to, to convince me that i should resign often. how could i do that if it's what i enjoy, right, that's what i live for actual friends. or she just see,
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i'm not going to plan anything. now this military service has taught me one very important thing to make no plans for the future ever. i could be returning from a combat mission with other guys now and what fate decided otherwise up, oodles. nip with his law. i was lucky to stay alive. now i'm going to more and those who died at the bug you couple of course i would like to get a crimson bray being a true warrior. i'm going from, let's, would i aspire to other or come room for? no, i have to focus on restoring my health. and when the time comes, i'll do my very best to pass the exam so that i too can wear the crimson pirated boy where commencing an endurance test. 5 sets of 10, push up solo 10, pulling your legs until your chest,
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you and 10 jumps bruning. any questions or no questions or a some front support position or what on my comp. her breath. 123 students. were you, sir, as pets? nice soldier must progress and improve you. there's no point for sharing that. you're the toughest guy around the world. you're gonna because there's always some one tougher. you will. who did he to? yeah, the world is the job good paid for the good will. and take a certain delight in doing english rolston. there's no point thumping your chest could be so boasting about being a member the special forces england. i never liked that sort of thing. ah, no young people often mistake me for a perry trooper or a marine, but once an old man called out in the street, double look on, there goes
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a crimson bery muscle. we often people are reluctant to sit next to me in buses if they are afraid of somebody else, which will go well for some reason off. many believe that spits nice are boneheaded gorillas of the can't think properly and go in. there are only good for hurting people and fighting mark on the back of the rocker or so. boy, a fight is what tells you if you are ready, you don't know what will happen tomorrow and then what situations are skills might come in handy. the more you exercise the more easily, you'll pass the test, if it was easier for you to earn the crimson marais than some others go to just means you worked harder during the training. oh, that's not the aim of these exams. it is to test our physical fitness. i'm
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convinced it. there are no limits to what the human body can do is to control it. there are only psychological barriers and inspects not even when he can't go on any longer. somehow you do it any way. some of those formats are the most important thing is to break through the psychological barrier, they'll pick up after that, everything is easy, brother dismissal process. it really turned to us see it as blood offer you convince yourself that you have to do it that way. if i hadn't passed the test, i wouldn't have the chevron that you seal me. now. i also really wanted to go back wearing the crimson bray and the uniform i wearing now. that all these factors together were very powerful incentive for me. lou, why he would wear these bearing any weather with me, even when it was freezing cold? i remember him coming to siberia once to spend the winter holidays with me and you
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will. she got off the train with his crimson berry and his head yacht. people were turning to look at him because his ears were blue with cold guard, but he was so proud to be able to wear the be re if jenny was the life and soul of the party from compiler glossy, we told jackie competitions within the squad and again, he took part in every one of them. okay. during missions we used to make of sketches. his act was always brilliant. so she could all go park and go to room for people literally cried with laughter. did you get my spiritual, hoarse? yeah, my girl. you know who i am, sergeant. do you know? yeah, i keep going for this footage again and again and all the emotion i felt then washes
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over me again. i can't seem to get my head around the idea that if can, he's no longer with us yet. a dish. carelessly when i went away on my 1st deployment, i was very nervous. only i'm from siberia and we went to the south of the country. everything was different, even the people that deployment was a long one. it last of the full 10 months. it all seemed so much easier now because i've got the hang of it at last. and what we learned, what our charge would be 24 hours before the attack with dfs be had informed us about a group of militants in a particular area. we had to come the ground for them.
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we go go. i saw a trodden path leading, chew a bush and noticed a hatch. i pointed out to the commander also, and at that moment i was wounded hosted to wearable around some wood. the battle only last for about 5 with maybe 7 minutes. everything happened to very quickly with his them, with the really with eskoville, half the terrorists were hiding out in their la serona and the other half they were lying in ambush nearby was they started shooting at us from the bushes all at the same time. and from several different directions. when were you, the militants decided to try and break through your will to heard you jenny, ab of screaming, grenade gilbert women's i'm throwing himself on to it. the explosion blew him over on his back and, and it was all over on ocean with
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me when we approached the militants hyde out. they had the advantage news to me because we weren't expecting an attack for the oil. so that's why we suffered such losses. that he did, but we did retaliate, we completed our task and had you every single one got what was coming to them until bring him over. right after they sold, simon wouldn't know exactly who was wounded in who was killed somewhat of them. later, the commissioner reported casualties in said, if of his dead horrible for you, i didn't believe him at 1st for who opposed horrible fool. and then he broke down on the phone was took off my gear wisdom and cried you. ah, this is a close day after the battle's, when everything was over, we had to go and identify our guys. now, after paying our last respects, we spent more than a month in the same tent that we used to share with them the samples with which was
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poor. i truly believe that they stay with us until 40 days after the death one with a we could feel them there or look for that was called if any was the oldest in his military trail. he knew that if he didn't some other that renee with his body summers more as his comrades would die for didn't. so he gave his own life to save his friends, apostles recorded. mm ah if jimmy was on duty on the night of 25th of january, it stuck in my memory. he borrowed the laptop from one of the guys. i switched on the computer and so that he wasn't skype. he was looking at me intently. i asked, what's that all about? i haven't changed. we'll meet very soon with him and he answered, you know,
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i want to see you now. that's what i remember more than anything else. so for the on deployment, everything is different. going to the group is more close knit. when we start an operation, there are 15 soldiers with a commander in charge. we know that our comrades and our commander won't leave us, no matter how tough it gets. where team some of the military base. yes. what is the place where your home and your family are? will chestler all that fuss will attract you. but on the mission, a man reveals his true colors. almost after the 1st deployment, the ship, a lot of people leave special forces in from overseas. some of them realize it's simply not for them. you will. those who do stay though they will make up a reliable team. you won't be afraid of going anywhere with them, even to them on
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a low when some of our guys go on a combat mission before they leave, who's louis for them to return safe and sound with no losses. as we say, the number of bane it's going out now should be the same. coming back to their homeland i passed the exam and now i can wear the special forces insignia. everything's great . i have no regrets. now i'm thinking about signing up for
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a 2nd tour of duty been ah, russia's official recognition of the don't the us in the against people's republics as independent states formerly puts to an end what was known as the mince piece process. this recognition also creates a new political fact on the ground, and there is nothing nato can do about it. more than 20 years have passed since one of the world's deadliest terrorist attacks that took thousands of lives. people started to scream, there was a wave that came off for us. that was like opening up an oven, but not all wounds of heel. the survivors and responders have increased rates of cancer and other health issues due to the dust and chemicals they inhaled. i come
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here to get my blood cleaned out, the metals, a lot of blood in my blood in terms of 1st responder was that was well over a 100001st responders in there were some estimates that tend to 20 percent still have to yes. so yeah, but the chief recovery is my wife cherish the minute i have with friends i thought i was home before because really humbles you depreciate. why with for is your media reflection of reality
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in the world transformed what will make you feel safe for? hi, salacious, whole community. are you going the right way or are you being direct? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. oh when i was showing wrong, when i just don't i mean you have to figure out the same becomes the after kid and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart,
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we choose to look for common ground. ah, tensions mount to in don't boss with a massive explosion going golf near a t v station in don't yet because ukrainian force is that the best selling of been newly recognized with public fresh way of sanctions targeting moscow. a triggered by the west. but russia wanted the global energy market on which the most pain will be inflicted. that as a defense, this decision to protect the russian speaking population of dom well in 90000 has led to violence there in recent days, by crossing the border into neighboring russia. the speak to some of the refugee we're extremely terrified. that's why when we heard about the vaccination,
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