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In July of 2014, the Civil War really sort of kicked off on the 13th and that started again with a rocket attack against

Tripoli International Airport and we were very close to the airport. So the chance of being hit was quite high and there were hundreds of rockets being launched every day.

My boss sort of gave us briefing and let us know that we were going to be evacuating that kicked off the destruction and that's when we really started burning everything.

Kind of like in the movies, right? I'm treading and burning and putting nails through hard drives and that kind of thing.

Wrote that getting through the first checkpoint was the most dangerous part of the evacuation.

So to go south through that route, one of the reasons that it was not our first choice was because part of it was through hostile little territory.

So was this other tribe that had been really supportive of Kadoffi and did not appreciate the US intervention during the Arab Spring.

I knew every single one of those security officers would die to keep me safe and I knew that they felt the same way about me and that I would do that for them as well.

So I think that, you know, confidence in each other really was a big part in what made it a successful operation.

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