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Pete Buttigieg: “Part of my job is to take vehicles and people in my unit…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 1:24:33

That when. When I was in the military, I learned to trust my life to people I barely knew. I mean, Part of my job is to take vehicles and people in my unit outside the wire. and, you know, getting into a vehicle together. We didn't necessarily know each other very well. Sometimes all we had was a handshake, and, you know, we had the same flag on our shoulder, and that was about it. (1:24:33–1:24:39)

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