9th ESB Bridge Construction

Video of the 9th ESB construction of a land bridge across a wadi along Route Red in Now Zad district, Helmand province. Produced by Cpl. Bryan Nygaard. Also available in high definition.

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News & Politics

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• Now Zad
• Afghanistan
• Marine Corps
• construction
• Helmand province
• Marines
• high definition
• 9th ESB
• Bryan Nygaard
• Route Red

[theguyisinthailand]

Locals can't understand why they don't get hired to build a bridge/road, the work is done by an outside labor force with guns!

Those that will write and say it's for the safety of troops or the locals do not know how to do the work, those points hold little truth.

It's why the US can never win the hearts and minds of an average local in an area they invade, poor locals are left out of what is going on in the lands of their fathers.

NWO will never win, individuals freedoms will flourish always.

[3rdID8487]

@theguyisinthailand The locals are happy that a bridge is being built since they are cut off from theoutside each time the river floods (several times a year. Thye do not have the equipment of skills to build the bridge and the Engineers do. Your arguement is proved wrong by the series "In their own voices" which is on this channel. You of course will not watch it because it would be against what you believe, Afghans speaking about Afghanistan.

[theguyisinthailand]

@3rdID8487 From how you wrote, English is not your first language or you went to US public schools.

Why do you think that only large equipment is needed to do a job?

If US Marines(aka jar-heads) can do the work, Afghan locals could also.

Around my home, lots of building projects are done by hand.

Thai & Burmese woman move earth and concrete mix by hauling it on their heads.

Less then 1% unemployment here.

Remember the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Giza were done by hand.

[3rdID8487]

@theguyisinthailand You Wrote:

Around my home, lots of building projects are done by hand. (Because you don't have the equipment that we do or the infrastructure to support it.)

Thai & Burmese woman move earth and concrete mix by hauling it on their heads. (Thats a very efficient way of doing don't you think?)

Remember the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Giza were done by hand. (Yes thousands of years ago....its 2012 now in case you forgot.)

[theguyisinthailand]

@3rdID8487Why would you think that large powerful equipment is not available in Thailand? More heavy duty machinery is built in Asia than anywhere else in the world.

I looked at "In their own voices" and do not understand how you arrived at the conclusion that Afghans wish to have outside labor building up their infrastructure after NATO bombed and destroyed it over the last 10 years.

Your public education has not served you well to understand what freedom is or looks like.

[riderofdunes]

@burtontoker A 'wadi' is a dry riverbed, therefor there is a possibility that it could become a river again...

The soil is also very unstable in a wadi. Route Red is probably a supply route so heavy vehicles would use it.

[burtontoker]

why they hell are they building a bridge on dry land? whats exactly the purpose of this?

[riderofdunes]

Good to see them securing those culverts, they are serious IED magnets

[THATW3IRDKID]

What will be the purpose of this bridge, exactly?