working hand pump wells and that is great if you can have a compound of that because you have access to water. pour water all over yourself. if you have soap you use it but usually you don t. oliver: the marines established a series of strong points right in the heart of taliban territory. we came down and got into a real fight and it lasted there for almost a month of daily almost conventional forces. we had a fight everywhere we went. small arms fire and direct fire. they wouldn t stop even with all of the fire poured that we brought to the fight. they like to stick around and fight. once you engage them, they don t really run away. we fought like that for 30 days. oliver: weeks of heavy contact proved costly for the
they were afraid of their lives. if i accept h help from marines or americans, then when they leave taliban come back and they will execute us. they don t like the taliban. the taliban take their money and take their houses and food. pretty much whatever they want. the people just don t have the poured concreter to fight back. we sleep on gun trucks or arm s distance from them. it was hotter than anybody ever thought it was going to be. i think the hottest day was 128. just the heat alone can drive any individual crazy since we are not used to it. come of the compounds have working hand pump wells and that is great if you can have a compound of that because you have access to water. pour water all over yourself. if you have soap you use it but