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20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Pod Save the World

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I Was an Assistant Machine Gunner and I Was a Machine Gunned Infantryman

"I was what's called the assistant machine gunner. And so I carried an extra barrel and extra ammo in addition to my regular combat load," he says. "Our job was to try to disrupt essentially what was called al-Qaeda in Iraq at that point."

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