Deployment Guessing Game
Series: Front Line: Missouri Soldiers in Iraq
From: Adam Allington
Length: 00:03:52
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Host Intro: Though most reservists and guardsmen serving in Iraq are there in support roles, many are operating in some of the most violent areas.
Unlike active duty soldiers, reservists try to balance family and career while wondering if, when and for how long they?ll be called back into service.
Adam Allington was traveling with a group of Missouri Army reservists in Iraq and prepared this report.
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Host Intro: Though most reservists and guardsmen serving in Iraq are there in support roles, many are operating in some of the most violent areas. Unlike active duty soldiers, reservists try to balance family and career while wondering if, when and for how long they?ll be called back into service. Adam Allington was traveling with a group of Missouri Army reservists in Iraq and prepared this report.
Broadcast History
originally aired in St. Louis in December of 2007
Transcript
Adam: The name of the Detachment Commander of the 307th Psychological Operations Company in Ramadi, Iraq is seriously ?Captain Caesar Millan??that?s right, just like the ?dog whisperer?.
Millan4 :14
I guess it started probably about 3 or 4 years ago when he started to become popular and I?d get an email or a text message or someone would call and say ?there?s a guy on TV that has your exact name?.
Adam: Millan lives in Soulard, he just passed the Missouri Bar Exam before being remobilized.
He?s already served a tour in Baghdad in 2005 and was supposed to have the option of "volunteering out", or choosing not to go back on the next deployment. That was before last January?s troop surge.
Millan1: 45
Adam: Did you volunteer out?
Capt. Millan: Yes
Adam: So you weren?t expecting to be over hear.
Millan: No, not at all, not at all, not at all. And even with the surge...
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