CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings December 30, 2013
Of that. So within our own base we had to make sure all of the telephone cable and fiberoptic cable worked. It was a gigantic airbase midway between ramadi and fallujah on the alanbar province. It was like heading up construction crew and my marines were really hardworking. They were great. They would dig trenches and lay cable underground. We would get the entire Company Helping us out, 200 marines, pulling out cable under a airfield. They took out the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced them with 30 kilometers of cable throughout the base. Then we got mortaredded. The then the cable would...