We all knew what we were going over to do. We all hoped nobody would get hurt, but that illusion was popped early when we lost Sean Cooley.

We had some electrical towers that were blocking a view – we got to blow that up.

You never really know who your friend is. Everybody we talked to, we had to search. They were very friendly when they knew we were going to give away stuff.

After that we didn’t get as close to an interpreter. We didn’t want to.

It would heat the water so hot you couldn’t take showers.

It’s really nasty. It’s really difficult to watch them living in conditions like that. It took awhile for them to let us help them.

We’d talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one site, we found over 11 tons of explosives. They would sell it to the insurgents....