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April 11, 2007

Embed Video (UPDATED 4/12, 4/13)

Posted by Bill

I've provided some video from my embed to Hot Air for a series of Vents. Today Michelle Malkin overviews both Fallujah and my embed as a preview of Thursday and Friday's editions: mini-interviews with various members of Team Gator, the Fallujah Police Transition Team and Military Transition Team 6. Enjoy.

4/12 UPDATE: The first interviews are up. Clarification: "Team Gator" specifically consists of Marines that run the Trak armored amphibious vehicles up and down Route Mobile looking for IEDs and providing security. I was in Fallujah with various units for a month, but I was specifically with "Team Gator" for only a day, described here. They are not involved in recruiting police; that's the Police Transition Team, members of which will be heard from tomorrow, I assume.

Also, 1SGT Massey, the first speaker, was shot at a few minutes prior to entering the room where I was being briefed by CAPT Dominijanni (the third speaker). His creative use of obscenities to describe his would-be assassin was an effective way of defusing tension.

The day after we went on our patrol, SSGT Mendoza (the second speaker) discovered an Improvised Rocket Launcher propped up at an angle on the side of the road to strike his command turret in the Trak. It was disarmed before it could be fired.

4/13 UPDATE: Part Two is up at Hot Air.

CAPT Lizarraga, a corrections officer on loan to the Fallujah Police Transition Team, and Captain Scott, Executive Officer of the Fallujah Police Transition Team, gave me very long but very interesting comments that I'll feature in an extended video version here at INDC.

LCPL Yeager was previously interviewed here.

The last speaker, Lt COL Fisher, was the MiTT officer who commented about the chlorine gas attack on the Fallujah Government Center in this post.

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Posted by Bill at April 11, 2007 10:06 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Thanks Bill, I hope these wonderful men know that there are plenty of us who DO believe!
God Bless all of them.

Posted by: dianaintx at April 12, 2007 04:03 PM

Great job. Keep it up. The Truth will kill them.

Posted by: Chief RZ at April 12, 2007 04:07 PM

Thanks for filming these guys and making it available. I've spent four tours deployed in the GWOT, twice each Iraq and Afghanistan, and one thing is an absolute truth, the Truth is not being told by most of the MSM. Again, thanks for giving these fellow Marines a voice.

Posted by: Mike Fay at April 12, 2007 04:32 PM