don t have problems in the neighborhood. they have tremendous influence. part this of traveling ministry today, if you will the road show is to reach out to some of the elders he hasn t met and try to enlist their support and try to clean up the areas where we still do have the intimidation 48 days after we are clear. geraldo: major heath henderson is the battalion xo. how do you build trust with the people? counter insurgency is about security for the people and once we can establish conditions where they feel secure and can resume a normal pattern of life and go about their lives. geraldo: how do you tell the good guys from the bad, colonel? it takes time. this is about building relationships. counter insurgency is about security for the people and it is about trust. when they trust us enough to really, really invest in the security force hire to include the coalition forces and the afghan forces then they will talk to us and trust us and build relationships and we will
geraldo: in the ten years we have been covering the war this this region we have seen the devastation that those improvised explosive devices can do. in the early days we drove around in open topped vehicle then unarmorred humvees and now they have massive vehicles but still the improvised explosive devices most of which are made with ammonium nitrate do inflict considerable damage. you can see how tearing fenders apheter entire front part of the cab bin structure there. other vehicles as we move on, broken axels, other damage to the front. you can see them lying here or there. this one got torn up pretty well by a substantial explosion. but what you don t see is damage inside the cabin itself. that is why these marines drive around in these heavily armored vehicles now. this is why we have essentially defeated the ied as a weapon
geraldo: in the ten years we have been covering the war this this region we have seen the devastation that those improvised explosive devices can do. in the early days we drove around in open topped vehicle then unarmorred humvees and now they have massive vehicles but still the improvised explosive devices most of which are made with ammonium nitrate do inflict considerable damage. you can see how tearing fenders apheter entire front part of the cab bin structure there. other vehicles as we move on, broken axels, other damage to the front. you can see them lying here or there. this one got torn up pretty well by a substantial explosion. but what you don t see is damage inside the cabin itself. that is why these marines drive around in these heavily armored vehicles now. this is why we have essentially defeated the ied as a weapon
but those are statistics that general mcchrystal and general quaff hope to cut even further. geraldo? geraldo: thanks very much. it is already 7:00 a.m. monday morning here at forward operating base marjah but when we come back i will tell you how these marines spent their easter sunday. that is coming up. that and more.
against our troopers. obviously some still get injured, obviously they can be enormously frustrating and complicating to the mission because it takes time to clear them but when you look around at the damage that they do to the heavy metal and understand how few of our marines and gis, other gis are injured as a result of these explosions you can see how far we have come in protecting our troops from what was really the enemy s best weapon. thanks, geraldo. joining me now in the studio, retired u.s. army colonel david hunt. a lot of people want to know are our troops finally getting the resources and support that they need over there? absolutely. what geraldo is showing, the marines and army and special forces guys, we have been there nine years and we have been supplying them. one of the hardest places to fight in the world but they are