Chris Fettes

So it's a little bit of a blur. It was about eight months, you know, um, I won't get too much into the details of the cycle, but it's like a lot quicker than what we used to call ProDev and SIDEX, all the pre-deployment stuff. It's only like really like four month increments. So it's a year instead of 18 months. It's not nearly as long. And wherever you fall into that timing. So, yep.

And then deployment was Afghanistan. How was the deployment? It was good. It was a good, steady pace of operations. By that time, we started to have to use some of the trained-up partner forces a little bit more. That whole thing started with the ERU in Iraq.

And then deployment was Afghanistan. How was the deployment? It was good. It was a good, steady pace of operations. By that time, we started to have to use some of the trained-up partner forces a little bit more. That whole thing started with the ERU in Iraq.

And then deployment was Afghanistan. How was the deployment? It was good. It was a good, steady pace of operations. By that time, we started to have to use some of the trained-up partner forces a little bit more. That whole thing started with the ERU in Iraq.

you know, training them and not necessarily having to bring them on operations to gradually over time, the whole Afghanistan war evolution was like, all right, we're going to start turning this over to them to fight for their own country. And you guys got to start taking these guys.

you know, training them and not necessarily having to bring them on operations to gradually over time, the whole Afghanistan war evolution was like, all right, we're going to start turning this over to them to fight for their own country. And you guys got to start taking these guys.

you know, training them and not necessarily having to bring them on operations to gradually over time, the whole Afghanistan war evolution was like, all right, we're going to start turning this over to them to fight for their own country. And you guys got to start taking these guys.

So we ended up having to work a few of them in and, you know, just navigate around that whole problem of bringing guys that aren't, at your level, trying to teach them or whatever. Oh, shit, you guys were running around?

So we ended up having to work a few of them in and, you know, just navigate around that whole problem of bringing guys that aren't, at your level, trying to teach them or whatever. Oh, shit, you guys were running around?

So we ended up having to work a few of them in and, you know, just navigate around that whole problem of bringing guys that aren't, at your level, trying to teach them or whatever. Oh, shit, you guys were running around?

Yeah, we would put them in different orders of patrol, and, you know, over the years, this is not my first deployment, but maybe by, like, my third, you know, we're going like, hey, all right, certain targets, they're going to go try to do it. Gotcha. But that was just such a messy thing, you know, because your operations are so precise, and you're now like, it's like...

Yeah, we would put them in different orders of patrol, and, you know, over the years, this is not my first deployment, but maybe by, like, my third, you know, we're going like, hey, all right, certain targets, they're going to go try to do it. Gotcha. But that was just such a messy thing, you know, because your operations are so precise, and you're now like, it's like...

Yeah, we would put them in different orders of patrol, and, you know, over the years, this is not my first deployment, but maybe by, like, my third, you know, we're going like, hey, all right, certain targets, they're going to go try to do it. Gotcha. But that was just such a messy thing, you know, because your operations are so precise, and you're now like, it's like...

You know, we're, let's say we're on a high level, not high level, but we're on a grown-up, an adult basketball team, and now they're like, hey, you got to actually try to win the championship, but you got to bring these kids, your kids, and try to figure out, you know. All right, guys, we got two kids. How do we win this championship?

You know, we're, let's say we're on a high level, not high level, but we're on a grown-up, an adult basketball team, and now they're like, hey, you got to actually try to win the championship, but you got to bring these kids, your kids, and try to figure out, you know. All right, guys, we got two kids. How do we win this championship?

You know, we're, let's say we're on a high level, not high level, but we're on a grown-up, an adult basketball team, and now they're like, hey, you got to actually try to win the championship, but you got to bring these kids, your kids, and try to figure out, you know. All right, guys, we got two kids. How do we win this championship?

Maybe that's a bad analogy, but it just got frustrating over time as the war evolved to go, guys, this is like hard to do. It makes you less efficient. I get it. Yeah. I get it. One. And there's more danger involved with it. And they don't understand when shit happens, who's to blame when bad shit happens. And you're like, dude, we're trying our best to follow these rules and play by these rules.

Maybe that's a bad analogy, but it just got frustrating over time as the war evolved to go, guys, this is like hard to do. It makes you less efficient. I get it. Yeah. I get it. One. And there's more danger involved with it. And they don't understand when shit happens, who's to blame when bad shit happens. And you're like, dude, we're trying our best to follow these rules and play by these rules.

Maybe that's a bad analogy, but it just got frustrating over time as the war evolved to go, guys, this is like hard to do. It makes you less efficient. I get it. Yeah. I get it. One. And there's more danger involved with it. And they don't understand when shit happens, who's to blame when bad shit happens. And you're like, dude, we're trying our best to follow these rules and play by these rules.

guys started to get frustrated over time and go like man this is bullshit and you know the ROEs over time got so restricted you know because of the political climate around the war that they were like hey it's win hearts and minds time and officers actually you know pretending to believe all of that and even over there and convince us yeah everybody I think experienced that I did not I didn't know that yeah um