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FN: Ollie North: "If the USA comes through with a helicopter...I'll be home...if all goes well today we'll catch a helicopter to Baghdad and Baghdad to Kuwait...Betsy I'm coming home in time for the wedding....Everyone of us involved in this activity (has) come away with a better appreciation of the men and women serving..."I'm gonna stay in the shower until the water gets cold."..."One of the things I think we'll see..(in the future is) embedding..."I do think the military, justifiably, regards the press as a hostile force"...(press) have a better appreciation for what (the military does)....3rd battalion 66 regiment is going to be staying..last night they detained probably a dozen (bad guys)...these guys (our troops) are doing it with remarkable skill....in (city ?) n. of Tikrit... an oil city...slowly but surely finding caches of weapons, of course looking for WMDS...(Alan asks if Ollie has a final message:) "It ought not to be about the correspondents"...Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines know (that they are doing a good thing)...that's the message of this experience."