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It's a very trusting relationship you have to develop,

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you are in a confined space that's hand-dug,

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it's illicit, there's no "engineering stamp" on it,

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so you-you have to, you are trusting your life with each other,

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and you are making each other comfortable and ah,

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going back to the first tunnel you ever crawled,

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and playing the mind games with you

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and understanding the confined space and the claustrophobia and darkness

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and all the unknowns involved and just building that relationship

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and we try to adopt as many people onto the team as we can,

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and there's some people that freeze, it's just not for them,

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you know, they'll get two feet into the illicit, hand-dug portion of the tunnel

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and its just not something for them to do, so we are like;

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"next" you know whoever wants to try it, we'll try and build the team but,

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it's not...it's something we want to do, it's not a job requirement,

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I can't go up to any agent and say;

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"Crawl in this dirt tunnel" that "we don't know where it goes."

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So, it's, it's a desire to do it,

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and it's an a adrenaline rush to do it and we have some outstanding people on the team,

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you know with Tom Pittman and Ryan Grimm and Jeff Lamb and Ryan Brown ,

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and Todd Blatnick, there's several others, it's a very close-knit group of people.

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We almost know what to do without saying to this point.

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So, we know when we get into a tunnel, we look what we have,

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everyone knows what their job is because we are so well organized with that system.