Braxton McCoy

It's a factory.

You've probably been there.

I haven't.

Okay.

So it looks like all the other factories over there, which are not all that different than ours, except for some architectural...

differences but it has this wall around the sort of compound and that wall has a big gate to let trucks in and then a man gate to let people in and we were using the man gate to let the dudes through the Iraqi dudes through and then wand them and then send them in to be go through the recruitment process jumping jacks and all that fun stuff I still got videos of that uh

And when we get there that morning to the man gate, dude, and there is like a thousand Iraqis lined up at the door already.

And these, these are not a punctual people.

So we, we called up more like, Hey, this is a bad, really bad idea.

And they said, basically Roger continue mission, you know, like, all right.

So I went and talked, I was Bravo team leader at this time.

And I went and talked to my first line leader.

His name is Johnny.

And I was like, John, I, I don't want to put guys out there.

This is stupid.

And so he and I decided we would go out with our interpreter.

We call it, we call him Carlos.

Cause we thought he looked like he was from Juarez rather than I go out with Carlos and just start asking questions.

And pretty soon this guy, and you know, just the typical stuff, like, why are you here on time?

You know, why'd you get here early?