0:00 - 1:56: 2-year-old Caleb riding his toy on his Granny’s driveway in Provo, Utah.
1:57 - 13:52: Caleb trick-or-treating with my former girlfriend, Kimberly. 7:02 - Caleb dumps his bucket, throws his candy, and runs away.
13:54 - 16:46: Fort Bliss, Texas, with Sergeant Brooks. Getting ready to deploy to Iraq.
16:47 - 18:26: Staging area in Kuwait, waiting to fly north to Iraq.
18:27 - 26:10 (November 10th): Marine Corps birthday inside Saddam’s palace on Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq.
26:11 - 30:36 (End of video clip): Cutting my fingernails while I talk to the camera outside my tent. Showing the surroundings and the inside of the tent.
0:00 - 2:21: Inside Saddam’s palace (Camp Victory).
2:22 - 3:00: Outside Saddam’s palace (Camp Victory).
3:01 - 4:08: Early-morning Islamic prayer call.
4:09 - 6:46: Tour of the trailers we lived in during the war in Iraq.
6:47 - 7:47: Apache helicopters flying over the base.
7:48 - 8:43: The filthy Suburban we used on base.
8:44 - 9:29: Driving on the base during sunset in Baghdad.
9:30 - 12:52: Blackhawk helicopter flight to Fallujah.
12:53 - 13:13: Filming a fellow linguist inside our tent in Fallujah.
13:14 - 13:42: Looking through papers in an office in Fallujah, with SSG Rabias and SSG Brooks.
13:43 - 17:29: Walking through the battle-damaged streets of Fallujah. 15:32 - Everybody has M-16s or M249 SAWs, and I have a pistol.
17:30 - 24:03: Looking through the abandoned Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters building. 20:13 - found RPGs and AK-47s.
24:04 - 25:18: Weapons we brought back from our patrol.
25:19 - 30:09: Promoted to Sergeant by the Marine commander in Fallujah.
0:00 - 1:18: DOCEX (Document Exploitation) soccer team. Jake is goalie.
1:19 - 4:05: Tour of our work trailer/area, including Sergeant Brooks with our fly trap, Kevin (pronounced Keevin), Sergeant Rabias, Tony (linguist), and Jake (linguist, and to this day a close friend of mine).
4:06 - 4:43: The burn barrel.
4:44 - 8:16: Driving around Camp Victory.
8:17 - 12:55: Throwing a football with Jake while Sergeant Brooks comments on the surroundings.
12:56 - 16:50: Talking to Caleb (my then-little nephew) in Spanish while drawing pictures on the whiteboard.
16:51 - 18:30: Talking to Caleb in English this time.
18:31 - 19:20: Driving a little car around the office for Caleb.
19:21 - 21:30: With my good friend, Chris Green.
21:31 - 22:54: Watching the Super Bowl (“super” early in the morning) inside the Camp Victory chow hall.
22:55 - 24:48: Camp Victory chow hall with Jake, Sumaia, and Sergeant Brooks.
24:50 - 27:30: R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Qatar.
27:31 - 29:01: Wally (linguist), Al Pacino (linguist), and Sumaia (linguist and still a close friend) in the work trailer.
29:01 - 29:55: What happens when it rains in Baghdad.
29:56 - 33:21: Arm-wrestling with Wally, then Jake and Wally, then Sergeant Brooks and Jake.
33:22 - 39:35: Convoy to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Falcon.
39:36 - 41:19: FOB Falcon. Getting ready for incoming detainees and materials from a raid.
41:20 - 53:09: Return convoy from FOB Falcon to Camp Slayer.
53:10 - 1:09:04 (End of video clip): Exploring one of Saddam’s former swimming pools and Saddam’s son’s former zoo with Al Pacino. “The Zoo” - new linguist in-processing area.
