they were in what's called the sunni triangle, right between ramadi in falluja. so i'm just going to tell you a few, i have a few vocabulary words here that i had to learn a whole language was talking to these guys. one of them, the active duty folks here will know, i refer to something called saw. not something you cut down trees with. it stands for squad automatic weapon. essentially like a medium-size machine gun that soldiers carried. i'm also going to refer to something called -- this is a four lane i would just like an interstate that connected ramadi and baghdad. and it was this italian job to do highway patrol there. but highway patrol there was so full of firefights and burnt out cars pushed to the side of the road that they quickly renamed it can make all the operation mad max after the '80s movie. they need all their operations after old '80s movies. so i'm going to read to you a particularly bad day on mad max. and afterwards i'm going to just briefly explain how, kind of echo through that time. and excuse me are using some names that i have and intro