Good morning. Welcome to Sawcast number 38. This production of Sawcast is brought to you courtesy of

Jockel-Willing Productions and his technical staff, Carrie Houghton's here today, and

My name is John Strachemire. I'll be your host for today. And

What I like to do is to start off with a story from our

time on the ground and

We had a recon team RT Crusader had been on the ground

They've been in heavy contact for a long period of time getting low on ammo. It was getting dark and

The team was not in the position to get out and

So the team leader Rick Estes

was on a radio try to make contact couldn't make contact and

Then he picked up his earth town which was our emergency frequency radio and

He picked on the radio say can anybody hear me and

At this point I want to introduce Rick Estes. Rick. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's nice to be here

And that was that one mission was so unique, but it also may be

Before you talk about hitting the radio, what kind of trouble you had been in for how long?

I didn't and accurately portrayed a time perhaps on that. Well, we had been on the ground

We got inserted two days earlier

So this was the beginning of day three

And I was

We had got we got inserted it was into the DMZ and we were looking down

On the DMZ was some field glasses and everything had gone fine. We had a good we had a good oral in location

And we had good field glasses and so we were monitoring the activity coming across

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