Jose Garcia - Patrolling

Running time
1 min 29 sec
Date made
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Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

By the time they got to my rotation they had some not good situations in previous... so they were more reluctant to embed us in patrols. This was particularly true after a colleague of mine who was not Beret qualified, I wasn't Beret qualified, they called us Black Hats, although they were a deep Navy blue. But we were just called Black Hats, and Black Hats have often gone out and done patrols and done things with the other members of S.A.S.R. but they were much more reluctant to do that by the time of my rotation.

Jeff Craig, he ended up being in a bad situation, they caught up in a firefight where, from my understanding, they had these positions set up for inter-tribal warfare rather than actually defending or fighting against coalition forces. And they didn't know that at the time, they stumbled into that and they got into some really bad fights and I believe some civilians were killed in there and they didn't want anything like that to happen again.

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