 We understood that there was enemy soft or red cell presence in the area Which is basically just guys who are going to provide harassing attacks on us So at any time we have to be prepared and a defensive posture to fire back on these guys Off in the distance somewhere out in the jungle we hear like people howling and hooting Trying to make themselves sound like crazy howler monkeys or something like that You two watch that left side, all right? That's when we heard the first pop shot You take contact at the north ECP Team leaders and squad leaders took charge I started screaming all the guys get on your gear put on go to the ECP's provide security the Marines were quick enough out of the tents The people that were on the ECP took contact they returned fires And then people that just attacked us ran away, and so we took a squad of Marines out And then we pushed around the corner and that we couldn't find any of them. They're just gone Upgraded security they took off No, nothing to report since then. All right, if anything changes, let me know I have a report I have to sit up at 06 the morning We went about a quarter half mile down the road and so there's really bright glowing light on the left side of the road and Turns out was a speaker So we grabbed it kind of as an intelligence piece and then we took it back and we put it on an MRE box And then Copacan gem you built a sign and on on this sign is a piece of cardboard You took a permanent mark and wrote come and take it wanted to come attack us and take their speaker back They had to come get it So basically what this is is it's gonna blind the enemy at night. All right And also it would if it was nighttime it would light up this area like the Sun was lighting up this area We're gonna remove the safety, which is that square one. I was talking about so I'm just gonna pull it out All right now we're live I'm Corporal Martin first name Jacob. I'm with 9th DSB. I'm With second platoon Bravo company first squad leader I'm from a small town in Christiansburg, Virginia It's like five minutes west of Virginia Tech When I was growing up, I played football from probably age seven and up and that pan holds the spoon in place Okay, Colvin Martin. He's he's one of the best Marines that we have in the platoon hands down I don't think anybody can argue that just from a leadership style to knowledge and MOS proficiency and just to you know having having that Professional demeanor about him. So now with that long pen, I'm gonna go through All in all he's easy. He's a really good person and an even better Marine I had a really tight brotherhood growing up and a small group of friends and As soon as I graduated high school, I really missed out on that brotherhood And it was something I felt was essential to me to like keep functioning as an adult So I really just wanted to get out there with a group of brothers again And I heard the Marine Corps was a place to do that You guys see why I was being so careful with the safety now Yeah We're heading over to the bridge site so we can start building it yesterday. They prefabbed everything So it should be ready for us. What we're doing is we're building a one-rope bridge To make it easy for personnel to get across. We're building the bridge out in JWTC to help the the staff at there Actually that whole process of just getting to the site in of itself is the first challenge The environment that we were building this bridge in was it's a super inclement area So it's it's slipped on both sides in this particular section We have close to a 50-foot gap of water that we had to shuttle all the lumber across Getting down there and it's in itself was a challenge Not yet. I'm just trying to square it out right now Yeah You know the Marines and CBs in this particular case got here got together and started working on this construction of this bridge I'm working alongside the CBs there. They're pretty much the main effort on building the bridge B3 Thomas Scott I'm a builder with NMCB4 Specializing carpentry concrete and vertical construction for the naval expeditionary force So it was just kind of a more complicated process than we were used to getting all of our material down the terrain took us a little bit Definitely the hardest place any of us have ever done construction in our time in the Navy Yeah, well, that's great as we're coming down the path to take the wood down to the bridge site where one of the CBs had Tripped it your job is anything else to grab this And then dab it on there. Yeah, you killed someone before not feel only in the clinic, bro Doc jumped in the action. He's stitched his hand up right then and it was pretty impressive seeing dock We built this bridge for the jungle warfare training center staff We also built this to prove to the NCF that in a contingency operation we have the capabilities to come in here and throw a bridge up in a Jungle terrain within about 48 hours Once we got the material on site We set up the rough frame for the bridge a lot of the bridge prints we had for things that we were used to doing as a CB unit didn't really apply to this environment so B3 C-SAC actually drew these prints up himself and We went started from square one with this bridge And at that point we twisted the bridge across the suspension over the river It's a pretty easy process, but it just was a little bit more complicated in the environment Awesome experience So the CB's that we work with they're actually they're in some insane group of guys we got out there It was four day off and we got it done in about a day and a half So for example if this was a highly traffic patrol zone for a group of Marines, this would be easier to traffic move material supplies equipment weapons to be able to Get troops from point A to point B as fast as the human we can so being able to put a bridge up like this definitely speeds up the timeline for a lot of Tactical I just like to kind of spotlight the group of guys that were out here working on this thing I Think if you would have brought any other 10 CB's here this probably wouldn't have gotten accomplished We got a bunch of all-stars a bunch of savages out here, so Definitely a good group of guys and if this needed to happen it would definitely happen a rear security push-up a little bit towards us We're doing a recon patrol. We're gonna get the slopes and the curves of each road rotting up to our platoon defense site About three miles that way And we're gonna Determine whether they are an obstacle for our vehicles or not as an equation we do to find the radius of the curve If the radius is too tight, then it'll it'll be an obstacle for vehicles just turn it on the road Just instability and whatnot. All right, so my name is sergeant Brian Jenkins. I'm a sergeant second platoon second squad leader To make you look California. It's just like maybe 30 minutes east of Camp Pendleton My dad was them in the military. He was a Marine and then he moved over the Army We did move a lot. So I was born in Utah and then I grew up most of my life until I was like 13 in Washington State and that's he did a lot of recruiting when we're in Washington So I didn't really see him too much and I knew that was gonna be a part of it when I joined So it's just the separation from the family being stationed in Okinawa I'm definitely feeling it now, but it's just something that we have to live with as being in the military something that that we do I was 19 years old. Yeah, so a year after high school. I was working at State Farm Insurance I was sent beyond a computer desk and I I'm not one to work beyond a computer desk So I was just sitting there and I just felt like I was running away and I just really had to get out in 2015-16 that was kind of the the rise where ISIS was doing more attacks specifically in my area like a San Bernardino there was a shooting a new report just out today has Disturbing new details about the San Bernardino terror attack that left 14 people dead and 24 wounded That kind of aggravated me and pushed me to make my decision No, I wouldn't be anywhere else because I believe that you know every place I go to it's an experience whether it's good or bad You know, I learned from it. So I mean eventually I'm gonna get out this military So might as well have different experiences from good ones and bad ones. So I think this here I think it's a pretty good experience for me. So, uh, you know, I don't know what the future has ahead for me But you know, we'll find out You know, you can stay at home and you can work in a restaurant work behind a desk And there's nothing wrong with that But when you come out here and you can volunteer to teach Japanese kids English or you can go to Thailand You can build a school and help people There's there's nothing better than that and you've got your brothers and your sisters. This is this isn't just another job This is a family. This is this is so much more than just a job as Marines, you know, you can be sent to any any fight any climb any place kind of ordeal and it's it's Crucial to understand the different environments you could be working in because it could be any environment any place in the world It doesn't matter. We're not just fighting in the desert. We're fighting in jungle environments We're fighting in urban environments So understanding how to traverse these environments how to get around these environments how to work in these environments is very important And it's something that as Marines you should understand because you could go there in a moment's notice So we got some intel that the people who attacked us that night were in and or around the vicinity of Snipe Mountain We got our orders that we're gonna occupy Snipe Mountain It's basically just like any other town that you're used to seeing and it's you can tell that every position Set in a way to where if somebody in a different building needed to see you they can't We got a current brago saying that there was gonna be some enemies up there And it was our job to go and infiltrate and clear the town and that ultimately was our was our point of attack