the nights, the area came down and i was trying to figure out who was in charge and we always round robined a bit and we never knew who was in charge. ultimately i talked to, this area, bad things happened at night and you don't want your guys sleeping. he was warning me that we needed to stay on guard, and not get complacent, and i was injured already, but later on in the deployment, and then that exact area where i was warned by that, by that tribal leader where we had thee of our soldiers captured. and their bodies were later found in 2010 but yeah, so, it just shows you that, you know, there were times where they were helping us out and giving us intel and you kno -- we had to keep our eyes open. but unfortunately we lost three of our guys in that same area. so -- about half way through my deployment, being on the ground and doing infantry stuff, we in my company, we had one platoon in the iraqi army and we had my unit on the ground. we had road clearing, it was called iron claw at the time. the infantry experience, it was our turn to go drive around and look for the ieds, and we had hu