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(triumphant music)

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- My name is Dennis Keller
and I spent 24 years

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with the Army Special Forces

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down at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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During my 24 years with
the Special Forces,

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I had multiple deployments
all over the world.

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One in particular was a
deployment to Afghanistan

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and where we were running
nighttime combat operations.

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On one particular nighttime operation,

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we had a safety issue
with one of our vehicles.

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It actually ran off the side of the road,

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and it was due to not
having an IR headlight

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for that individual to
see the side of the road.

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So I found the National Stock Number.

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I needed to make sure that
that was the exact item

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of supply I was looking for,

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which took me into WebFLIS,

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where I typed in the
National Stock Number.

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Once I got in there and looked
at the National Stock Number,

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I was able to look at the
specific characteristics

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to that NSN.

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That told me this was the
assembly that I was looking for

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for those IR headlights.

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Ended up ordering quite a
few of those, 14 to be exact,

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enough to outfit all of my
trucks with two IR headlights,

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plus have some spares in the motor pool.

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Thanks to Logistics Information Services,

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the web, their website, and
everything they provided,

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from that point forward,
I had no safety issues

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due to driving concerns.