Department basically predicted it would not happen as general shinseki had a more robust presence and pushed aside aggressively and the consequences of that with the early policy decisions played out over the years. So certainly there is details with that at the policy level we want people to think about what it meant to be one of those marines or Us State Department guy to build the society up and what that was like and how that was affected by the past but on a daytoday basis. For use thinking of trading when you were deployed or were you taking notes when you were deployed . I took a lot of notes a was right thing but not about war mostly very, very bad short stories and ive learned Anthony Powell had quit writing during world war ii i felt like that excuse me for all the things i had written them were awful. But i did come back with notes and a lot of memories but the source material that i had with the nature of my job by which travel lot and its been time with units so that certa
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