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Video by Sgt. 1st Class Rhonda Lawson

Lt. Col. David Gooch

3rd Division Sustainment Brigade

Nov. 23, 2010 | 11:45

Lt. Col. David Gooch, Abbeville, La., talks to a KATC-TV reporter in Lafayette, La., about returning home for the holidays, his units working convoy security, life in Iraq, troop morale and communicating with family's back home.

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