Neely, Brandon - short clip - ArrivalofFirstPrisoners

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-	We were just kind of hanging out at the camp,	0:00
	'Cause we knew January 11th that day,	0:02
	the detainees would be arriving.	0:04
	We were just at the camp.	0:06
	I happened to be the first group of people	0:08
	working at Camp X-Ray.	0:10
	I was doing escorting duties	0:11
	and they just came on the radio,	0:12
	plane landed.	0:13
	And they came on the radio,	0:14
	five minutes out.	0:15
	And they came back on the radio, 30 seconds out.	0:16
	Then you see the bus coming.	0:18
	And there has a Humvee in front of the bus	0:20
	with Marines and the .50 Cal Mount on it	0:21
	and a Humvee in the back with the .50 Cal Mount on it.	0:23
	And the bus pulls into Camp X-ray	0:25
	and you can hear the Marines	0:28
	just, yelling and screaming at the detainees on the bus.	0:28
	Then the door just opens	0:32
	and they start just throwing detainees off.	0:33
	And I happened to be the second guy in line	0:36
	doing the escort.	0:37
	Like the first guy that came off the bus,	0:39
	came off and the escort team grabbed him	0:41
	and then they were just yelling at him	0:44
	to get to the holding cage.	0:45
	He was hopping, Marines just threw his missing leg at him.	0:47
	and the Marines threw his prosthetic leg out on the ground.	0:50
Interviewer	What were you thinking when you saw that?	0:53
-	Just really just kind of taking it all in,	0:55
	I had never seen nothing like that.	0:58
	And here I was 21 years old, 20, 21 years old	1:00
	and it's kind of doing what I was told to do.	1:04
	Then the second detainee, he came off and took control them	1:06
	then yelled and screamed at them	1:09
	put them down the hall, down on their knees.	1:10
	And you know, they're all blindfold had the leg shackles	1:14
	in the handcuffs on and the earmuffs on and just,	1:16
	did the whole process that they were off the bus.	1:20
Interviewer	Did the military tell you	1:22
	that you should yell and scream at them?	1:24
	Or that was just part of what was going on?	1:26
-	Yeah, it was just part of what's going on.	1:28
	They said keep the pressure up	1:30
	because, like they had the canine units there too	1:31
	and they had the dogs barking.	1:33
	So it was just, it was loud.	1:35
	It was chaotic was, it was kinda, you know	1:37
	before the bus ever pulled up, you know	1:39
	everybody was quiet.	1:40
	You could literally hear a pin drop in the whole camp.	1:41
	And then when the bus pulled up, it was just	1:43
	it was just loud.	1:45
	It was all chaos.	1:46
Interviewer	And so everybody was screaming and yelling	1:47
	and the dogs are barking,	1:49
-	Oh yeah it was quite loud.	1:50
Interviewer	and what where the detainees and men doing?	1:51
	did they respond back	1:54
	or are they just being totally passive?	1:55
	Do you remember?	1:58
-	Most of them were just, just going with the flow.	1:59
	I can remember one detainee just,	2:02
	like sobbing, just crying.	2:04
	And then they put him in the holding cell,	2:06
	and they'd be yelling	2:08
	and screaming at him and tell him to shut up.	2:09
	But most of them just,	2:11
	they're probably so tired from the plane.	2:11
	They were just going with the flow.	2:13

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Title:

Neely, Brandon - short clip - ArrivalofFirstPrisoners

Date:

September 11, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Neely, Brandon

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Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Prison Guard
Brandon Neely, male, age 30, was stationed as a guard in Guantanamo from January 2002 until March 2004. In January 2010, he flew to the United Kingdom to meet with former detainees with whom he had reconnected via Facebook.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:28:58

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