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His english was excellent. most of all, he was willing to go to sangin, which many interpreters avoided given the dangerous terrain. he said i immediately recognized that he was a special guy and i was very lucky to have him. marines in other platoons began to eye this new addition with envy, but major schueman had no intention of sharing him. the patrols were long and terrifying as the marines made their way through mined territory toward villages, often being ambushed in a campaign that killed...

Long been similarly held up as objects of correction and ridicule. these sad people protest too much and they are not convincing anyone. most americans are wide awake to the reality that kids are force multipliers for freedom, courage, happiness, virtue and grit. they create the little platoons that transform individuals into families. families into communities, communities into a society. the society into a patriotic nation. kids love america and they aspire us to make her ever more worthy of t...

Our focus was on officer fanone and the other officers who risked their lives for us. ive already thanked him personally and ill do that again. they didnt have the right equipment. 75% of them were in plainclothes. equipment was locked in a bus that they couldnt even access for one of the platoons. only 10% had been trained. its not their fault. it was the fault of leadership at the top, a lack of planning. as one of the officers said in haunting words on the radio, he said, does anyone have a p...

It was, an insurrection. in your view, is this any sort of a substitute for the bipartisan commission? >> not in any way, don, nor did we believe it ever would be. our focus was on the officers who risked their lives for us. ive already thanked him personally and ill do that again. they didnt have the right equipment. 75% of them were in plainclothes. equipment was locked in a bus that they couldnt even access for one of the platoons. only 10% had been trained. its not their fault. it was the fa...

Rachel: i knew you werent impartial on this. this wont be the first time president trump has been at this game, correct? >> yes. so today we have got a pretty good list of guests. we dont have president trump on our list. maybe we will get a chance to see him. vichs arv.i.p.es are the player. go on and lead battalions and platoons and in the combat. first today navy is going to win a football game. ed: navy is 9-and 2. and army is 5-7. acting navy secretary thomas modally. roger staubach, of cou...

Fellow officers. these are people who had their own platoons, i their own units were the ones who were witnesses against them. mika, my question to you is why is the president doing this? do you believe -- is this something that he feels is truly a miscarriage of justice or is this some sort of political signal hes trying to send, perhaps, to a group that hes hoping will back him again next time around? >> yeah, this is a president who has advocated for war crimes, wanted the gloves to come off,...

Bomb makers. ainsley: isnt motorcycle considered. >> its a tactic the taliban had used to run at platoons, get close, blow yourself up and kill americans. they are still use its today. in fact the platoon leader in that area was killed months later by the same tactic. even though they have more evidence the army has squashed it. he is leavenworth. the president reviewing that case and matt golsteyn case we knew that was under active review. in this case again killing the enemy on the battlefield...

Theres been a serious of mercurial decisions made by the president of the united states that has involved troop movements, troop withdrawals from northern syria that rattles the nature of troop movements in the middle east, american troop movements. do you get any sense from the pentagon, from people below the chairman of joint chiefs of staff, from colonels, people in charge of platoons, any sense of concern about what this is doing both to the morale of the american military and the idea of fo...

Building that people who are different from you, can be your allies, your friends, your fellow citizens, you can die for them in political in war. and stand by them as a kind of a band of brothers. to use that language. all those great world war ii movies, showed platoons you know made up of the italia italian-americans, polish-american, you know mexican-american and so forth, living example in miniature how moral growth and political life were understood in the past, you can work with people in...

Different from you can be your allies, your friends, your fellow citizens. ieyou can die for them in political -- in war, and stand by them as a band of brothers, to use that language. all of those great world war ii movies which showed the platoons made up of the italian americans, the polish american, you know, the mexican american and so forth. living examples in miniature of how moral growth and political life were understood to work in the past. you find that you can work with people in lar...