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In these remarkably candid first-person stories, we hear about the day-to-day life of a soldier, the waiting for something to happen, and what it?s like to face life-or-death situations. These eight soldiers from Task Force Saber open up about some of their fears now that their time in Iraq is over?fears of emotions that might rise up, fears of not being able to find people who will understand what they're talking about, and fears of long-term emotional scars. All of the soldiers served in the Vermont National Guard, yet their stories are universal. The stories were recorded during demobilization at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, by Vermont Public Radio.
Steve Norcross
(Host intro) In civilian life, Steve Norcross works for a heating and plumbing contractor. But for the past year, Norcross has commanded more than 100 guardsmen in Iraq. In this "Soldier Stories" segment, Norcross describes his job and the challenge of command.
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(Host outro) We just heard Steve Norcross. Tomorrow in "Soldier Stories", Jordan Paquette talks about the lessons learned from a year in Iraq.
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Piece Description
In these remarkably candid first-person stories, we hear about the day-to-day life of a soldier, the waiting for something to happen, and what it?s like to face life-or-death situations. These eight soldiers from Task Force Saber open up about some of their fears now that their time in Iraq is over?fears of emotions that might rise up, fears of not being able to find people who will understand what they're talking about, and fears of long-term emotional scars. All of the soldiers served in the Vermont National Guard, yet their stories are universal. The stories were recorded during demobilization at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, by Vermont Public Radio. Steve Norcross (Host intro) In civilian life, Steve Norcross works for a heating and plumbing contractor. But for the past year, Norcross has commanded more than 100 guardsmen in Iraq. In this "Soldier Stories" segment, Norcross describes his job and the challenge of command. --Audio content-- (Host outro) We just heard Steve Norcross. Tomorrow in "Soldier Stories", Jordan Paquette talks about the lessons learned from a year in Iraq. (optional music bed provided)
Broadcast History
Vermont Public Radio broadcast this piece on June 20, 2006.
Transcript
(Norcross) "My daily routine was communicating with the higher. Getting what was going on. Basically a lot of it was what was going on with the intelligence, what was going on with what the enemy was doing in the area, and trying to correlate that to stay one step ahead of them basically and getting down to the platoon so that they could stay one step ahead, and just overall supervision and management of the company. We worked a lot with the Iraq security forces for three, four months when they were available to us and I went out on a lot of those patrols."
"Our area wasn't the most active. There would go weeks without anything happening, and then all of a sudden a lot of stuff would happen at once because they would sit there and watch you for a while and then they would try to hit you or do something..."
"It was mostly like we were a cop. Seventy five percent of doing nothing and...
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Timing and Cues
(Host intro) In civilian life, Steve Norcross works for a heating and plumbing contractor. But for the past year, Norcross has commanded more than 100 guardsmen in Iraq. In this "Soldier Stories" segment, Norcross describes his job and the challenge of command.
(Host outro) We just heard Steve Norcross. Tomorrow in "Soldier Stories", Jordan Paquette talks about the lessons learned from a year in Iraq.
(optional music bed provided)
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