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Directly from the ground forces. >> tell me what you are looking for when you are out there supporting one of those missions? >> the goal is to support the ground forces, the boots on the ground. if we are looking for ied's, improvised explosive devices we are looking for potential hot spots on the ground or insurgence possibly planting an ied or nefarious activity that doesn't look like a friendly action. >> number 2. >> you are very familiar with your target. for that 3 or 4 hours that target is yours and you know what's going on. sometimes you don't want other pilots to come in and take ove...

That was just one bomb in eastern afghanistan. that's what i call multitasking. so joining us now from atlanta to react, the affirmation joey jones. joey, first of all, as always, thank you for your service and for your sacrifice. i have to ask you, you tweeted this quickly. why were you so compelled to get your opinion out there so soon? >> thanks for having me on, greg. this is an issue that's really important to me. i lost my leg in afghanistan in 2010 and i don't make second wishes for want to change things, i lost friends that that was well. the reason that happen is because we went into ...

In afghanistan rather than a good tactic by the taliban fanatics. >> well, it's both. the taliban have wisely used all the poor man's nukes, as it were, ied's, suicide bombers, and these green on blue assassinations. you know, you played a clip in the intro, bill n which obama said that in his election campaign in 2008, he promised he'd wind down the war in afghanistan. that was another lie. his election campaign, he said bush took his eye off the ball. he was going to fix afghanistan. he went with the surge, which was exactly the wrong approach to a tribal society. you want a small foot print...

Wounded are doing the things we imagine them to be doing when they are in most danger, out on patrol and frontier fire bases, dealing with the dangers of ied's, confronting enemy fighters. but at this point something like one in five nato fatalities in afghanistan this year, one in five are at the hands of what is supposed to be our own side. the afghan forces that we are arming and training as the core justification for our continued presence in the country. nobody was under the illusion there were not horrible costs to this war as there are to any war. but this news this weekend out, coming ...

Dealing with the dangers of ied's, confronting enemy fighters. one in five nato fatalities in afghanistan this year, one in five are at the hands of what is supposed to be our own side. the afghan forces that we are arming and training is the justification for our continued presence in the country. nobody is under the illusion there were not horrible costs to this war. as there are to any war. but this news this weekend coming on top of the accumulated horrors of recent months in afghanistan makes it crystal clear how horrible the human cost of being in afghanistan for this long continues to b...