“You never really know who your friend is. Everybody we talked to, we had to search. They were very friendly when they knew we were going to give away stuff.”
“We'd talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one site, we found over 11 tons of explosives. They would sell it to the insurgents. You're not only fighting the insurgency; you're fighting an economy that's poor.”