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Chip” Gregson, who was MarForPac [Marine Forces Pacific] at that point. He did the rigor, if you will, in showing what it would mean, the preservation of the force over time, and we eventually convinced the Commandant, and then the Commandant had to convince SecDef [Secretary of Defense]. But he did so against all odds, against all expectations of the people in this building [the Pentagon] at that point. It has since been heralded as the way to do business. I am satisfied the Army would change in a heartbeat given the opportunity.

It was very, very helpful, and their counter-IED [improvised explosive device] guy basically helped train our people and then deployed with us. ] But the LAPD, based on a good working relationship, was most beneficial, from the chief down to the detective level. Neimeyer: This SASO [security and stabilization operations] thing . . is a rather unique approach. Did it just come to you, or did you basically understand that you were going in the second time in a completely different than you did on the march up?

I found a little piece of property down on the Euphrates. ” But my point was that I wanted to suffocate any hope that the enemy had that we were temporarily there. [I wanted them to believe] that we were going to stay as long as necessary. S. newspapers about pulling out and all, but I told them that we would not leave them adrift and that they had bought in with the wrong people. 33 Al-Anbar Awakening I knew they couldn’t admit that publicly right then, but the fact is that they had bought in with people who said no cigarette smoking, who would marry their daughters if they wished, whether or not the parents wanted that.

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