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About the threat to our interests in the region because the shiite militias have is always been extremely difficult. they have always been opposed to us. they have always been against us and always been supervised trained and run by iran. you remember years ago when we were talk building the war, the middle of the war, talking about the ahmadi army and so on supervised by and actually underwritten by iran. so i think over the longer term general petraeus is right. the single biggest threat to an iraq that holds together are the shiite militia. >> okay. colonel jack thank you very much, as alwa...

People go overseas and fight a war. and they come home put their feet up on the desk. nothing could be further from the truth, they are doing difficult training all the time because they have to prepare themselves for combat. they were doing night insertions to insert marines, special operations in difficult environment. any practice this all the time. it's not like years ago when i first came in the army when the first time you were in a live fire exercise was in combat. here they practice all the time. it's inherently dangerous. but these kids all hang together and do a magnificent job. i sp...

Right off base. let's play some of that. >> my mutual friends in the marine corps are pretty torn up about it. they aren't quite sure how to handle it in a way. and it affects the community because we've come to know these people and respect that they are protecting and serving us. >> the marines here and all service members in the community understand that there's risk with training training has to happen year round obviously for any deployments that are required. but it comes with a risk and the community understands that but we certainly our hearts and prayers go out to the family members. ...

Here in florida but a very difficult and very somber day with this announcement that they have discovered the wreckage of this black hawk helicopter. >> colonel jack there's a lot of sorrow any time there's a loss like this tell me about the black hawk -- we know we've been on black hawks overseas so many times but this is really the workhorse helicopter and this was flying low probably in fog in a special ops training exercise and it's dangerous. >> we have plenty of them thousands of them across all of the services. it is the workhorse, it's been in business in the military for decades, it's...

Official end to the u.s.-led combat mission in afghanistan. now a new mission is beginning aimed at helping the afghan government hold on to power. even as taliban units occupy territory increasingly close to the capital. colonel jack jacobs is a medal of honor recipient and msnbc analyst and tia covered the war in afghanistan. i want to start with you, colonel jack. thanks to both of you for being here. what does it mean colonel that the official war is over but we're still going to have substantial troops in harm's way? >> well in theory our actual combat troops, troops on the ground, actual...