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family tackle cullen d smith and
the commanding officer first

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commoner generic I a part of today's
event it's a two day event

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that were doing and it's a 70 fifth
anniversary and reunion of

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first combat engineer battalion the
unit first first on an engineer

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has been there because for three
division has always been there

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so whether it was tied in a pillow
and island hopping campaign

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by going to korea now they were
there at the pusan perimeter

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from her they were there for incheon
there were therefore the

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frozen chosen fast forward again to
afghanistan 2010 the battalion

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starts a series of deployments and
became home for the last time

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in april of 24teen from afghanistan
but my name is robert wallace

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I was fortunate to have served with
the first engineer battalion

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from november 19 68
to november 18 69

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not to single sloped on colors generously
on the floor to retrieve

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a literary persona with an extract
from the two realize the through

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all that say five years from shenzhen
tireless writer the head

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of the spirit

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bars come in and if they shared one
lesson with one lance corporal

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and it stuck in that lesson saves
a marine's life are in the

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in the next conflict and then this
was kind of shot worth it

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prescott had provided special riot
squad of ludlow things get

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mumford 40 45 years and then prepared
for this trip program to

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sell my old records and letters from
their religion with purchase

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endo as an accomplice to the tyne
in the conditions and mill

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equipment is what they're for when
more modern political faces

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emerge from their officer to hard
charging kendall instinct

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time changes is a village
on the things they say.