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The house that we were meant to stay in just exploded.

The house they directed to just blew up.

My name's River Rainbow.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, and what's happening in Syria

right now is beyond my comprehension

of wrong and evil.

I don't want you to go.

Not only are you leaving me with all the financial news,

my husband is going to Syria,

and I don't have enough money to bring you home.

In order to see this project through, I joined the YPG.

Looks like we're in Syria, made it across the border.

I have medical training from my time in the Navy,

and I ran into a guy named Baz

who's putting together a medical unit.

You got to stay awake with me, okay?

I got to get my medic bag.

The YPG are positioned just outside the city of Manbij.

There's estimated to be 7,000 ISIS fighters in there.

They were literally liberated yesterday.

Today's their first day free from Daesh.

All right. We just got ambushed.

This guy is an Islamic State fighter.

It's worse. -He's a suicide bomber. -He's a suicide bomber.

We need to get these kids out!

Oh, my God. My God.

All right. We're here.

Get out.

We had two.

One dead adult, one dead child,

at the staging area.

We lost one child.

We had another child that died on the table here.

We have the old man that died here.

Fuck me.

Are we just waiting for the rest,

or do we try and go back?

We regroup, guys.

We need to drink some water. We need to catch a breather.

We need to catch a moment.

It doesn't get much worse than this.

They were running around,

looking for their family members,

complete chaos, complete panic.

I've never seen anything like this.

Oh, man. It's leaking blood out.

I tried getting all the blood out.

The morale of the team is pretty much at

an all-time low.

Think I'll grab my bag here.

Unfortunately, right now, we are the only medic team

on the front,

and we have the only ambulance on the front,

which puts a huge amount of stress on us

because, at any second,

at any given hour of any given day,

we're called forward, um,

to a scene of carnage.

I have blood in my hair.

They said I smelled like blood,

and I need to take a shower.

Another world over here.

I miss those little girls of mine.

I haven't heard from my wife in over a month.

She stopped responding to my e-mails.

I have no idea what's going on.

Yeah, there's a -- there's a casualty coming.

What's going on?

They're guiding us to the casualty.

What's going on? -BrûFuck if I know, man.

There's fighting right down the road,

and we're waiting to get to the casualty.

I'd like to move in, personally, but dangerous choice.

So we're here to pick up a casualty.

We've got fighting going on all around us.

We're in a fairly exposed position,

so I'm going to put this down for a little bit

so I can focus on what we need to focus on here.

One guy off, and another came rolling in.

We had four casualties, three injured.

It's really fucked up.

I need you to move. Make cover further down.

They won't let you take cover from this direction.

We need to get him out of here.

Okay.

-I gotta close the door. -I got to give him this IV!

I gotta close the door.

I got no IV!

I got no pulse.

Jesus, fuck!

Baxter, we got to take these kids all this way.

It's bullshit!

We had a pretty serious gunfight.

There was four casualties.

Okay, I got her back dripping.

-He's coughing out blood. -Okay. I'm getting an NPA.

Do you know what happened to her?

Yeah, she got shot in the hand, shot in the arm.

I think it was an explosion.

Oh, an explosion?

Her hand is shredded and burnt.

She has a shrapnel wound on her other arm

that was bleeding kind of heavily.

Okay.

So it looks like that she was a victim of maybe an RPG,

hand grenade or a land mine.

This young guy could've actually taken shrapnel in the neck.

Might not actually be a bullet wound,

which would explain the no exit.

Rêzan is trying to stabilize his airway.

He just -- He's kind of coming to.

He's awake. He's coming to.

He's got a bullet or shrapnel in the neck.

Got to control his breathing.

Got to keep him on his side.

There we go. You're okay.

We got you here, okay?

We've got you here.

You know, this dude's an American.

He's a volunteer just like us.

Okay?

He needs IV.

And he showed up almost dead.

-What happened? -All right. The kid made it.

-Oh, sweet. -All right.

-That's what I wanted to hear. -Good for him.

Yeah, good job, everyone.

For us to be able to save his life

and get him handed off

is a huge morale boost for this team.

I didn't even know. It was my friend.

You could've been speaking to him in English, then.

Yeah, exactly. That's the thing.

If I had known he was an American, I could've been,

like, asking him questions instead of just, like,

every time he stirred, I'm like, "Tamam, tamam."

When you save somebody's life, there's a tangible result

right in front of you,

and it feels amazing.

It's the building where the rocket is.

Okay, solid copy. I have eyes on.

We're headed to a new home, chicken factory.

This is going to be the furthest we've been

pushed forward by the YPG.

Hey, do I park in the back there?

-Maybe in backwards. -Okay.

-Smells like shit. -Yeah.

Maybe it was a chicken factory.

Yeah, might -- might be.

It's actually still got chickens in it,

so I think it's an egg factory,

and so there's just flies everywhere.

Yeah, it's like fly season times 10.

This spot sucks.

Oh, this spot is fucking horrid, man.

I don't even know how to say this.

I finally heard from my wife.

Oh, your wife?

So I got to go.

We were going through some tough times before I came.

Dude, I'm sorry to hear that, man.

I thought we had got it sorted.

I don't know. So I got to get back.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, everybody understands that.

I'm going to leave in two weeks.

Anyway, so, if I'm a little bit down or out, that's why.

We all understand, man.

I spent fucking years on the road

trying to work to make a future for us, and, uh,

I guess it took its toll.

It's like I've got to try to fucking sort my life out, man,

and try to save what can be saved and bury what can't.

Uh, we just got the word

that we're going to be moving up into Manbij proper,

two medics on foot to follow the attack

as they try to take the city.

It's something we've been trying

to establish for the team for quite a while.

I think we're going to do a rotation,

so it would be me an little man first.

That should be fruitful, I hope.

I think it'll be the first time

I actually get in to Manbij proper,

so I'm getting my drug box ready for when we go in.

You know, we might not have support for a while,

so I just want to make sure we have enough shit

to provide medical support further up,

stabilize and prepare for transport.

Pretty good update, though.

I mean, we haven't gotten to do this before,

and it's been on this operation

for, like, a month and two weeks.

It's perfect timing for me so that I'm not sitting around here

in this parking lot with my head thinking about my wife.

I've always tried to take good care of my family

and try to be a good husband,

and, apparently, I've failed,

so, hopefully, I won't fail at this.

We're loaded up,

and we are headed into the city.

This is our little departure video.

It's pretty late, so we're just sitting

in the back of a Hilux waiting to go.

How are you feeling?

Yeah.

All right. I think it's time to go.

You know, we're going through these villages at night

when it's a little secret and move around,

so not going to be too much photography.

That is a big mortar.

This morning, I find myself just on the edge of Manbij.

They have been mortaring us all night and morning.

Fucking sniper heaven over there.

I call it the meat grinder.

High-rise buildings with a million windows,

murder holes.

There's tons of civilians hiding in there,

and they're a very determined enemy...

...very determined, very well trained,

and death is the ultimate reward for 'em.

These guys die in battle, they believe they go to heaven

and get 72 virgins.

I got eggs going on.

This place sucks.

We've reached a new level of suck within this country.

Getting kind of tired of eggs.

I finally fell asleep.

I guess I'd been up for about 36 hours.

I, um...

just been pretty devastated about what's going on at home.

I guess sheer exhaustion finally won out against heartbreak,

and I passed out for the last couple hours.

I woke up kind of in a state of confusion.

But then I realized,

when I go back to America,

I wondered where I would stay.

I'm feeling pretty damn lost right now.

I'm just completely and utterly fucking heartbroken.

This isn't the best place to be heartbroken.

What happened?

My fucking bag is in there!

Goddamn it!

What happened? A mortar hit it?

-There's a Bixfing in there? -Yeah.

There it went.

Damn it.

I guess that answers our question

if we can take a direct hit from a mortar.

It was a rocket, huh?

Had that rocket gone just, you know, 10 feet one way,

you know, even 2, 3 feet would've

put that rocket where we were sitting.

At least the round's mostly quit cooking off.

Yeah.

Hey, a RPG-7 rocket was in there

and probably several hand grenades, all cooked off.

That's flaming.

We're back at the chicken factory for now.

They're talking about moving back up.

We'll see what happens.

Fuck me.

It turns out that a TOW missile just hit the APC

that we were in.

You know, it sucks.

The biggest loss and bad for my temper was,

my medical bag was in there, so I'm down a bag,

and we're down tons of medical gear,

so, I mean, personally,

I'm pretty frustrated about this.

We were pretty close, probably 5, 10 meters away,

so I'm thankful that nobody got hurt,

but pretty shitty about my bag.

Seems we were just --

really, our unit's just down for close calls.

It's, I think, the fourth of fifth close call we've had.

Holy shit! I hate these flies, man!

These flies are -- ahh!

Like, God! It's so disgusting!

This place is hell on Earth, man.

The flies here are just beyond,

beyond disgusting and atrocious.

I thought Manbij in general was the portal to hell, but no.

I actually found the portal to hell's portal to hell.

This place is the fucking worst place I've ever been in my life.

If not that, then certainly

the worst place I've ever been in this country.

Like, this place is, bar none, fucking terrible.

Yes, it's completely disgusting, completely disgusting.

Got to find something else.

I really, really fucking hate it here.

I'm building a fly trap.

I want it just for the satisfaction,

not because we can put a dent in the fly population here.

Exactly. So I just barely opened it up.

Actually, I'm going to set it over here

where all the flies are already trafficking.

I've got a drawstring on there, so, later,

I should be able to creep up and just yank it shut.

Seems like a huge waste of time.

I don't really get that much satisfaction

from killing anything,

let alone things with no challenge

that don't have a brain.

It takes no skill to kill a fly.

The satisfaction for me, it's not that

it's, like, a challenge to kill a fly.

Well, it is a challenge to kill them in extremely large numbers.

Unless we just use a grenade in there.

We've got a casualty coming in.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

-Oh, boy.

I got a little civilian here.

I got you. I've got you, okay?

-Grab that.

We got a little kid here.

1, 2, 3.

We got two, two kids that were shot.

There you go. There you go.

Get that off his back. Dude, shit.

Okay, we got a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

How's the other one?

It's okay, buddy. It's okay.

All right. I only have a entry on the leg, no exit.

Just going to cover him there.

Little kid's got a sucking chest wound.

That one's expired.

So maybe we can find another blanket.

Seeing little kids hurt, there's nothing worse than that.

It's so tragic, and ISIS doesn't give a fuck who they hurt.

It was two little kids that were shot.

One kid was shot right in the face.

Fucking horrible, man.

That little boy, what do you think he was,

about 12, the one that died?

The other one's probably, like, 8.

Yeah, it was something like that, 10, 12.

What we need to do now,

if Bruce can -- Bagok, can you prepare the van?

Who wants to do -- You want to do ketamine?

Prepping some?

Yeah, I can prep ketamine.

So things are really heating up in the city.

They've seen a lot of movement over the last couple days.

I think the YPG is getting ready

for a massive push into the city.

If so, it's going to be a fucking meat grinder in there.

I just hope the YPG is going to be smart

and let us go with them.

And then, once this is done, we prep a nice

sitting area there so we can chillax

until there's casualties arriving.

Once we've done all of this, I'll prep the shisha,

and we are on standby, just waiting, okay?

Do we put our hands in the middle

and yell, "Go, team, go!" -No, we're not.

-Go! Come on, guys! -Come on! Come on!

-Come on. -Here, man.

Bagok. I'm only doing it -if Bagok is doing it. -Bagok!

-Okay. -Go, go, team!

-Yank, do say go team! -Go team.

-Hey, Rêzan? -Yeah.

-You okay? -Yeah.

-Want some shisha? -No, thanks.

-You sure? -Pretty sure.

It's nice. It's watermelon.

-I believe you. -It's smooth.

It's good.

If you want to start smoking, that's where you go.

Oh, yeah.

It's very smooth watermelon shisha, man.

How about a kilo of sugar?

That is unbelievable.

I won't spend my whole pay on Pepsis and tuckers.

Yeah, I know! Where the hell is it?

It's not my fault.

Hey, Rêzan, have a little puff.

-Nah, I'm good. -Oh, come on.

Just try it for once.

It's not really a scorpion, is it?

No. It's smooth.

Just think you're a Green Beret, and you're trying to emerge

with the local culture and customs to blend in.

This is better than the actual fruit you got us, dude,

so you should try it.

Smoke some of the shisha, and this should be

your reference point for the future.

Yeah. Is this watermelon good?

No. It doesn't taste like shisha we had.

Okay, so they just came,

and they said we gotta get ready to go.

They're going to take me and Rêzan forward,

and they're going to put us down into the city,

so that will be a good spot

for us to send our casualties to,

and so just trying to get my bag settled

and everything picked up here.

We're just kind of on the edge of the battlefield here

overlooking it, but we're ready to go.

They're fucking getting it on over there, huh?

Huh?

They're getting it on over there, huh?

Yep.

Everyone who thinks war is fun is a fucking idiot.

This war here is not fun.

It's very brutal.

It's so grim, and it's so incredibly violent.

It's like a fucking medieval slaughter.

Wow. Those are some massive fucking explosions, huh?

We were told that were going in the next morning.

It feels extremely intense.

We have no idea what it's going to be like.

You know the best part about this team?

-Which team? Us? -Me and you.

-Me and you? -You know the best part about it?

I don't know the best part about it.

You got the cleanest man with the dirtiest man.

I mean, this young man is as pure as they come.

He's, like, as pure as a white snowflake,

and I'm like a piece of coal soot.

Together, we make a good pair.

Look at that.

We make a uncomfortable pair.

We're about to find our new home.

We're going to go to the outskirts of Membich.

We've be able to take enough territory in Membich

that we're going to be able to set up a CCP,

which is a Casualty Control Point,

right there at the edge of the city,

so that we're a bit closer to the hevals

that are getting wounded during the fighting.

I've got nine days left, counting today,

before I make my exodus,

and I'm hoping that camera can survive nine more days.

It has taken a beaten. That is the truth.

I feel guilty about being here

because I feel like they deserve better

than someone with my medical training, my medical skill.

The only reason that I'm here with this unit is

because no one else is here.

There's no one else.

You know, it's just a few of us here.

If people arrive that could replace me,

that could give the medical support to the YPG

and to the people here in Northern Syria,

I would thank God if I were to walk away from this

because honestly, this is not really where --

I mean, this is not my comfort zone.

I am far outside of my comfort zone doing this.

So we got the new digs.

It's pretty -- pretty nice-looking.

To you guys, it just might be, like, a concrete room,

but to us, it's...

I've been sleeping in the back of the ambulance

and in the dirt for the last fucking two weeks,

so actually having something indoors

where it's a little bit cooler in the day,

and it's not so hot, is money.

You know, you come in here.

This is going to be kind of our sickbay area here.

You know, it looks like this house is really peaceful

and nice, and then you look behind this door here,

and that looks like somebody was killed right there,

and then you can see another one here.

It makes you wonder what happened to the people

that lived in this house,

and if you look in here,

you can see their possessions

have just been haphazardly strewn in here,

but what you find here is some stuff like this.

Some of my most valuable possessions are my photo albums,

you know?

And they're just piled in here with all the other possessions.

You know, that's the thing about this war

is that it's the innocent people,

I think, that have paid the biggest price.

Tens and tens of thousands of people

here have been robbed of their homes,

but, when you break that down,

the tragedy that's befallen each individual person

is immeasurable.

I hope these people can come home someday.

You know, my heart goes out to these people.

It really, truly goes out to these people.

I find a... round,

and I guarantee you

that didn't belong to the people that lived in this house.

I've been through house after house like this.

You know, people have fled, been killed, driven off.

Their homes looted and destroyed.

You know, it just breaks my heart,

but we're going to use this place for good.

We're going to save some lives here, so...

Hey.

All right. Let me get a tourniquet on her.

That's why we're here, okay?

All right. I -- Let me get a tourniquet on her!

Jesus fucking Christ, man.

So I thought I heard a wounded lady,

which woke me up, her cries, so I wake up,

and we run down here,

and, sure enough, she is,

but they drive her off with a pretty traumatic leg wound,

and she needed a fucking tourniquet, really.

They think they're saving her by rushing her off

when I need to stabilize her,

and that will save her much more than him

fucking rushing her off.

It's stupid...ignorance.

So they haven't been getting us for the wounded,

so now there's been two wounded hevals

that have also come through,

that they have not let us stabilize,

and they risk their lives even more by not letting us

fucking do our job.

Assholes.

Ooh, hear that bullet go overhead?

I did hear it.

This is a fucking ghost town, huh?

I can't help but think that my last two weeks here

are going to be the most dangerous.

Here we go. Get ready to get froggy.

We finally made it to the frontline.

There's pretty sporadic gunfire happening around us.

We just had a airstrike attack a ISIS position,

and tonight, I feel like,

was the first time that command

has intentionally moved us into the line of fire

in order to treat wounded hevals.

It feels awesome to finally get to do our job.

Oh, man. You don't want me to sing.

I'm not a very good singer.

Okay. Okay.

But I can sing the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Um...

♪ O, say can you see ♪

♪ By the dawn's early light ♪

♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪

♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪

♪ Who's broad strips and bright stars ♪

♪ Through the perilousness fight ♪

♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪

♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪

♪ And the rocket's red glare ♪

♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪

♪ Give proof through the night ♪

♪ That our flag was still there ♪

♪ O, say does that star-spangled ♪

♪ Banner yet wave ♪

♪ O'er the land of the free ♪

♪ And the home of the brave ♪

-Okay. -Yeah.

Whoo.

Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey.

Let's get a look at him. Over here.

Bring him right over here.

Sit down right here.

Can you breathe?

No? Okay. We need to get a chest seal on him.

Okay. I got a through and through here.

Yeah, he definitely needs a chest seal.

Hold it on.

-We need to pack that one first. -Pack it?

Yeah. That's the exit, so the exit gets it first.

-Right here. -I can feel it sucking now.

Okay. Take that right there.

Okay. Have him lay back.

-Oh! -Have him lay back.

Lay back. Lay back. Sorry, sorry, heval.

Okay. Wait for us to breathe out.

-Ugh. -Ready?

Yep.

On three. Okay.

Ketamine.

Yeah. I know. That's why we got to get that on him.

That's why I say stop, so that I can do that.

Now, you -- I -- We've got to repack his back

because it is leaking, and he needs, uh,

let's just put more gauze and a bigger seal.

I've got a big seal that we'll put on it.

Okay, I gotcha a seal. Okay.

That's our boys. They just hit a mine.

-Shit! -Yeah, it is.

Are you sure that wasn't, like, a missile, like,

a tow missile or something? -No, dude.

-No, that was a mine. -Yeah, it sounded like a mine.

-Like an IED? -Yeah.

Like, I've seen enough mines in this country to...

That was a triggered mine.

I almost guarantee it.

Oh, somebody pushed the button on it?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Almost like an IED type of thing.

Yeah.

Guys see any movement over there?

Negative.

Dude, we need to --

Dude, I don't see a damn thing.

There's been no movement.

-Hey. -Yeah, you got movement?

All we need to do is travel along

on the other side of the berm.

There's a berm running all the way down to that vehicle.

Yeah, but if they have a sniper fucking over there,

where you don't have defilade, then you're in a kill zone.

Do you think they do?

Dude, I wouldn't doubt it.

Dude, my buddy Ranos got smoked from a guy from the north.

I know that the east right here...

-Yeah. -...are definitely friendly.

I mean, if they have a sniper that could take us out there,

they have a sniper that could take us out here, like...

Well, why don't you run over there, hero?

But I ain't running over there because I ain't fucking --

Dude, I'm not talking about doing anything crazy.

I'm trying to figure out a way

that we can safely get over there.

You hear that? It's incoming.

They're taking fire. You're not running over there.

That's at the vehicle.

You can tell where the direction

a fire's coming from. -Yeah.

A patient with a sucking chest wound,

they loaded him onto the vehicle,

and it rolled over a mine

that was probably not victim activated due to the fact

that the road they're using is heavily traveled,

so we're trying to figure out if they're okay,

but we haven't seen any movement in the vehicle yet, so...

How long you been here?

10 months.

How's the fight been here in Membich?

It's definitely been some stiffer resistance

than we've seen before.

You know, it's definitely been a challenge,

but we're going to get through it.

RPG.

Because they've been watching it,

they know it's full of people.

Oh, yeah, impact.

It just doesn't look like the Kurds

are doing anything to try...

-Yeah, they're just... -...to get those guys.

-They're sitting around here. They have this and...

And, honestly, I bet...

That's two APCs they've lost this week.

Yeah.

Because one of the APCs I was in, we got out of it,

and fucking three minutes later,

it got hit by a katyusha, so that's dead.

That one's dead.

Well, so they don't need a APC down there.

They need people on foot.

I'm fucking torn between my heart

and my mind right now, man.

My heart says, like, "Go out there

and get those guys," but my brain is like...

I think it's stupid to go alone, but I don't think it's stupid

to go out there, honestly.

The Kurds want to organize a rescue party,

then I'll go with them,

but I am not fucking going out there

into some suicide mission for guys that aren't...

I haven't seen no movement.

I've seen nobody get out of that vehicle.

Let's say that you can get to the berm with --Yeah, if you...

...with a minimum of exposure.

-Yeah. -How do we get the guys back?

Right, exactly. Yeah, and that's the problem.

Yeah. Yeah, so I understand.

It wasn't so much that I was insisting that --

Well, I mean, if there is a safe way for us

to go up there, then, yeah,

I think we should go up there, but if we can't find a safe way,

then of course not.

Well, there's nothing more we can do right now.

You can't save them all.

Sometimes, it's just no matter what you do or how hard you try,

it just...

...it just ain't enough.

I'm so tired.

I'm so fucking tired.

I got to lay down and take a nap.

Hopefully, Rêzan can hold down the fort for me,

so I can sleep for an hour or two because I'm just wrecked.

Are they okay?

Okay?

I'm a medic. What happened?

Mine?

Okay. We need to get him out.

That's my friend.

I'm the medic.

Fuck!

Get him out of that hole. Let me treat him.

Okay. We're going to get you out, okay?

Come on.

Hey. Hey, calm down.

I'm right here. I'm right here, okay?

Okay. Come on. Come here.

Come here. You got blown up.

-I got blown up? -You got blown up.

-Come on. -Okay.

Are you guys going to take me back?

I'm going to take you back, okay?

-Lift your head. -But I don't know what happened.

-Ow. -Be calm, okay?

I don't know what happened.

I'm going to give you -something for pain, okay? -I'm so confused.

Just calm down, okay?

I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened.

I don't know what...

Okay, look. Hey. Watch your head.

Let me take that.

Oh, I don't feel good.

I feel like shit.

Yeah. Well, your friend got blown in half.

What's that? -My friend got blown in half? -Yes, he did.

-Give me your shoulder. -I don't know what happened.

Give me your shoulder.

I don't know what happened. I'm confused.

My legs hurt, man.

I don't know what's going on.

Is my leg already out?

Just lay still.

-Okay. -Just lay still.

What wrong with your leg? Is anything wrong with your leg?

It hurts. It just hurts?

-It hurts. -It hurts a lot, actually.

Let me see this leg here.

I think they're screwed up, man.

Okay. I got some bleed here.

Let me make sure you don't have artery bleed, okay?

-Ow. -And then we're going to move you, okay?

-Hold still.

I know it hurts, dude. I know it hurts.

-Ah! -I'm sorry.

It's probably your hip. It's probably broken, okay?

Yeah, can we get him -- Okay.

You take that.

Put your arm around me.

The backs of my legs are injured somehow.

-Okay. -But I don't know how.

Okay. Okay. Lay down. Lay down.

Okay, no problem.

I gave you a little ketamine, okay?

Ready?

Ah!

Hey. Hey. Try to be quiet. You're going to be fine.

Do you understand me? You're going to be okay.

You're going to be fine, okay?

Just try not to worry about it.

Everything is going to be okay.

They went and got themselves fucking blown up.

Hey, let me make sure he doesn't have bleeding.

Okay. All right.

Now, look, I'm going to roll you over, okay?

I got to put you over, okay?

Okay?

Yeah, a mine.

Okay. The good news is you do not have arterial bleed, okay?

I'm going to pack your wound.

This is going to hurt a little bit.

All right?

This is going to hurt just a little bit, okay?

All right? Just leave your leg there.

Aah!

Hey, I got to put a pressure bandage on you.

Calm down. Take the pain.

We wrap the leg, and then...

Ow, ow, ow, ow. Aah!

Okay. -That is painful, man.

That is painful.

I know, dude. One more on your head.

-Oh. -Okay?

Roll over a little bit for me, okay?

Okay. Okay. Here we go.

No problem there.

It's small, small. No problem. No problem.

No problem, okay?

You're not going to die. You're fine, okay?

You got a shrapnel hole in your leg.

You've got a little shrapnel to your head, okay?

All right?

I'm angry at you right now because I love you, dude.

All right?

-My legs hurt really bad. -I know. I know.

You probably broke your hip, okay?

-Just stay calm. -All right.

We're going to get you over to a hospital, okay?

We're going to get you to the hospital, okay?

-Yeah. -Okay.

-Let's move him. -Ah!

Okay. Hey, you make sure they know Tekosers, okay?

Tekoser is here.

Jesus Christ.

Pretty crazy shit going on here, huh, pigeon?

Want some water?

Oh, you were really thirsty, huh?

You were thirsty, weren't you?

So heval Agir and heval Rêzan wanted to go next door

in a building they had cleared last night,

and Agir triggered a mine,

which blew him in half

and severely wounded heval Rêzan.

I think that heval Rêzan's hip is broken.

He has a large shrapnel hole in the back of his leg,

and he has just a surface cut on the back of his head,

but he probably has a mild concussion.

He was pretty confused and distraught.

I patched him up and sent him on his way.

Fortunately, The APC didn't get blown up

on the way out this time.

I'm pretty pissed off right now because I don't like seeing

my friends get hurt,

especially people I've lived and worked with for months

and let alone get killed.

Agir had been here for 10 months.

You know, um...

...he's from Texas.

I just met him. He was a nice kid.

Fucking Rêzan, man.

He was just drinking strawberry milk.

He fucking loves his strawberry milk and milkshakes.

Fucked up day right now.

Fucked up day, but I got to stay here.

They're still fighting everywhere around me, and...

...I've got eight days left.

I've got to make it through eight days...

...and then I'll be home to see my wife and my kids.

Eight more days.

I got the call from Baz

to move back to the chicken factory,

so we're all going to move forward as a unit

and push up to the front lines together.

Thank you very much.

Oh, when I got back, you know, I faced 50 million questions.

Literally, next door.

Okay, so this is the building we're in, right?

-Yeah. -This is the courtyard.

This is the other -YPG building. -Yeah.

This is the building that they went and got blown up in.

You came out of the courtyard.

You walk around the building like this,

down the wall and in the door,

and then they got blown the fuck up.

I feel really fucking crappy today, probably the crappiest

I felt since those little kids died.

So I'm coming back from a run to the hospital.

I get out of the car, and Bagok says that Rêzan got blown up.

You know, I walked up, and I was like, "What's going on?"

They said Rêzan was injured, and I was like, "Holy fuck.

Like, what do you mean he was injured? Like, what happened?"

You know, I didn't know how serious it was.

I was pretty upset.

So I run the other ambulance or other vehicle,

and he's lying in there, not looking very, very well.

It was a pretty shitty day with one friend dead,

the other friend blown to pieces,

one guy out of the fight, one medic down.

I mean, that's how small the unit is,

is that one person goes, we, you know,

completely have to change the way we operate.

People get hurt in war.

It's really difficult to foresee.

This is a tough place man.

This is a fucking tough, tough place.

It's a tough place to have a heart.

Hi. It's not starting?

-Not starting. -All right.

Want to stay here and try to see if you can get this thing going?

Yeah.

No good.

No bosch!

I notice these belts are pretty fucking loose.

You know, we got big problems with this vehicle.

It's always something in Rojava.

The American Special Forces dudes that were here

got Rêzan to Erbil in Iraq,

so he's actually in a pretty modern hospital,

but apparently he's going to be fine.

You know, the bottom line is today's a new day,

and we got to keep pushing forward.

You know, we're down one medic,

which means we all got to push that much harder.

This is fucking war, and war's hell.

Rêzan's war is over, but this war is raging,

and it's going right now.

We got to keep our head in the game,

stay focused on working together as a unit and push forward.

The ambulance is broken,

but we have to move it forward into the city,

so we're trying to pack everything up.

How's the battle in the city going?

It's finally going quite well.

We're pushing into the city.

Blockades are now open, and civilians go out quite a lot,

so we had multiple casualties over the last few days.

Yeah, we need a CCP to kind of deal with that,

especially now that we're in the city.

We've added a young German to our team here,

at least for the moment.

While they may speak German to each other,

they only swear in English.

The fuck?

Take two of moving out of the chicken factory.

Halle-fucking-lujah, I got everything packed in the van.

Believe it or not, that is a miniature hospital in there,

and we're moving back up to the house we were at before.

These vans take a beating, don't they,

especially with the likes of us?

Oh, I hope to never see this place again.

This place is hell on Earth.

Kiss goodbye, chicken factory.

Yes. Inside sleeping, which is quite a luxury.

I think I've spent much more of this operation

sleeping outside than inside.

Speed Racer himself, in that vehicle right there.

Oh, God.

Sharp, sharp turn here.

Ah, our new home.

Home sweet home.

I'm very happy to be in this place.

So much better than the other place.

Is this big fun or what? Do they got a target?

So they saw some movement on the rooftops,

and they're trying to apply a little fucking justice

for our hevals earlier today.

It's a little bit of AK range, so he busted out his PKM.

Fed him a belt. Let him eat that.

I got to stay low up here because there's been a lot

of sniper activity this morning.

Daesh putting up a pretty good resistance,

but we're going to take this city from 'em.

Yeah, I miss home so much.

Home seems so far away, man. It's so far away.

So we got some new additions to our medic team.

The YPG sent us two hevala jins to train his combat medics,

which is so awesome

because it really shows that the YPG

is really finally starting to get behind us.

So who's this?

She's one of our trainees.

I gave her a teaching lesson today.

The -- Our trainees, I think it would be good

to have an actual schedule,

say, like, two hours in the morning,

two hours in the afternoon. -Yeah, this is better.

Are you taking the lead on this?

If you want me to, I will take the lead.

-Well, if you want to. -I'd like to.

That's going to be my job later on.

-Okay. -So, yeah, that's good.

So, yeah, then...

It's getting to the end of Baz's tour of duty here

in Syria as well, so Brûski's is going to be

starting to take over into training.

He's picking up some of Baz's responsibilities

as Baz starts to transition out.

Is everyone okay with Brûsk taking the lead?

-Yeah. -Yes.

BrûFor our two new hevals that are part of the team,

I just want to say welcome.

We've been trying to get Kurdish hevals onto the team

for a while, so we're really excited to have you.

This is such a huge win for us

because that means this unit

is going to be able to go on without us

and that our ultimate goal of getting it

turned into a Kurdish tabur is starting to happen.

I mean, we've had hevals come in with triple amputations.

We've had hevals come in with double amputations,

gunshot wounds to the chest.

Most of these people have lived.

There's been, unfortunately, about seven who have not,

but seven dead is a pretty good statistic to prove

that what we do is effective.

Hey, you might chop some onions up, man.

Throw some onions and peppers in it.

That sounds good.

Somebody want to chop some onions while I...

No, you want to chop onions and peppers

and put in it. -Yeah, I know.

These are suggestions you make before the fire started.

He did make those suggestions before the fire started.

There's plenty of wood.

I thought I'd fucked enough

that you guys would be cheering when I left.

Well, we will be.

You haven't fucked up -enough yet, boy. Oh, yeah.

Actually, I'm going to feel pretty bad leaving,

but I've just got to go.

It's going to be weird leaving,

and I'm going to miss this place.

I'm going to miss these people.

I'm going to miss the camaraderie most of all.

The camaraderie of our team has finally come together

as a real team.

This is my last night, hopefully, here with the boys,

and, uh, we've had a really good run.

We've been really successful on what we've done

and that we've got a lot accomplished here.

You know, every one of the guys that has been in this team,

that has been on this operation

are some of the finest people I've met,

selfless, dedicated, brave, loyal, you know,

just all the quality traits

that you would really look and hope for in somebody.

They're from all over the world, from all different backgrounds,

and they're all here to help.

How many casualties do you think have been

in the Manbij operation?

Like 190 or something like that now, 170?

Just under 200.

Just under 200.

I think the other ones take more of the --

Yeah. They hit something over there.

We should go check it.

Out think we should go check it out?

They definitely -- Hey, what did they hit over there?

-There's something on fire. -Right.

That's a pretty big -- That's not a mortar, is it?

No, that was artillery.

So we have three casualties

and one sahid arriving in the next 20 minutes.

Get this one over here from the older lady and I'll get --

If he's not critical, send him to the ambulance

to sit over there.

-Hey.

Hey, hey. Shh.

It's okay.

How you doing here? Anywhere else?

Right here.

And he's fine?

Back of his head has a little bit.

Okay, just lift it. I'll get it, man.

Yeah, he's got a...

Yeah, he has something on the back.

-I see that. -Yeah. Wrap that up.

Just cover it up completely.

Hey, hey, hey. Hey. You'll be okay.

Mama!

Come here. Come here. Come here.

It's okay. Hey.

Is this your father?

-Okay.

Can you hold your baby?

Okay. We're going to take your baby to the hospital...

...okay?

I can only take one parent.

It's all right. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

Okay.

We got this little guy feeling better.

Shh, shh, shh.

-Okay. Baby go with you, okay? -Okay.

Do you want her next to you?

Yeah?

Here. Here you go.

I got her all calmed down, okay?

Okay.

I put your baby, okay, with Mama, okay?

Baby with Mama, okay?

Get some of mine for you, okay?

I'll help you, okay?

Okay. There we go.

-River? -Yes?

Did you want to come with me?

Okay.

There's four or five children. No, four children.

One, two, three, four.

It's just not much room in the back, really,

unless we put them all in here.

-Are you sure you're okay? -Yeah, I've got this.

No problem.

Okay. Okay.

Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here.

-Right in the corner there. -Okay.

So that way, he can lean up, and you can put him in here.

Okay. So the little one here?

-Yes. -Okay.

Mama, I got another baby here.

-Mama. -Okay.

Go ahead, close it in.

So we've had a whole bunch of civilians come in.

They're obviously blown up.

I've got three little kids in the back here with the mom.

The worst one here is little dude.

He's got a sucking chest wound.

It looks like a projectile passed clean

through his left lung,

so we put a needle decompression in.

I've got a little girl she's got a pretty big hole in her head,

another little girl with a big hole in her abdomen.

Okay, Mama, it's going to be bumpy, okay?

-Oh! -Hang in there. Hang in there.

We're almost in Kobanî.

We're almost there, you guys.

We almost got you to the hospital.

Almost there. Almost there.

Yeah. Here you go, dirt road.

This is it. We are here, okay?

This is hands-down the hardest part of this war.

We've got a needle decompression right here.

Seeing these little kids hurt just makes me think

about my own daughters.

I mean, that could be them right there.

I've had my heart broken here, and it's some of the best people

I ever met working here,

some of the best people I ever met working here.

The little guy.

Yeah, she has -- right here?

Right there? Yeah, on the head. The head.

Hey there. She's okay. It's here and here.

It's okay. Shh.

It's okay.

Water.

Okay, back to the frontline.

-You like to sleep? -Yeah, I like to sleep.

-Then, sleep. -Yeah, I'm going to.

I'm going to lay right down here on the bed

that you never really -want to lay on. -No.

I'm all packed, ready to go.

I want to get out of here before I can't get out of here.

We'll see what happens.

I left the dudes a few things --

my contour, my canteen, rail mount, extra batteries,

a GoPro and a charger,

a kneepad, for the fall of Mambji,

that's a surprise drink,

my harden-the-fuck-up patch,

a couple mag pouches, jalapeño cheese and a headlamp.

Got it.

-What's up, man? -What up?

-You ready to go? -Yeah. I'm all packed and ready.

Here, I got you something, something just for you.

Save it for later.

All right, jalapeño cheese spread.

A couple blanks you can throw in the fire for a prank.

There we go. That would be funny.

You got to throw them in the fire when it's hot, though.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, time to load up,

time to load and go.

This is it. I'm getting out of Syria.

I've done what I can do.

I've saved a lot of people.

I'm tired.

My soul is tired.

I feel like, somedays, I just... it doesn't matter how many times

I wash this uniform,

I can't get all the blood out.

All right. All right. Skippy, you ready?

All right. Let's do this.

Oh, man.

We're going to miss you.

-See you in L.A. -Yeah.

I'll miss you, dude.

You've been good, dude.

Good team, you know, you did a lot of hard work.

All right.

Be safe. Be smart. Don't be stupid.

Now, all I got to do is survive Bagok's crazy fucking driving.

All right, brother.

-Take care, man. -Catch you in L.A.

I hope you work everything out back home.

Oh, God, me, too.

All right, brother.

After coming to this war and witnessing the carnage

that I've witnessed

and just seeing the chaos,

I just want to get home.

It took some time for our team to form,

but when it finally did,

I was amazed at how much everybody grew

and how much we achieved together as a team.

We saved countless lives, and it's time for us

to pass this torch

to the new hevals coming in.

And I'm so proud to know that this team has made

such a huge impact in the YPG

that they now want to put medics in every single tabur

and grow the team and make it even better,

and I can leave here knowing job well done.

I've gone down to civilian clothes,

which feels a little strange.

This is the first time in six months

that I have had civilian clothes on.

I'm done with war, man, personally.

I've had enough.

Yes, it is.

It is.

So we're actually pretty close.

It's up here a little bit. It's right there.

-Oh, look at that. -And it's open. Yes!

And they have free Wi-Fi.

You're going to have a burger and a beer, then a burger

and a beer, right?

Oh, man. I'm going to have --

Burger and a beer, burger and a beer sounds good.

I'm going to have a burger and a beer and a beer and a beer.

Sounds good to me.

Now, I have waited a very, very long time

for this delicious beverage.

Hey, to our fallen comrades.

To our fallen comrades.

You know, these are, like, it's the little things

in life like alcohol,

cigarettes, and women and hamburgers.

And hamburgers.

Yeah, those are all the things you miss on the frontline.

I got two out of three.

I said my goodbyes to Bagok,

and they headed back to the frontlines.

I'm going to hop in a taxi and head towards the Iraqi boarder.

I'm finally going to get out of Syria.

Here we go.

We're having problems.

We're stopped at a checkpoint.

They want to know where my notes is,

and I don't have a note.

Now, they're taking my passport, and the guy's leaving with it.

Now, we're going to follow this guy in the Beamer.

I have been detained.

It doesn't seem like things went according to plan.

I was supposed to be able to just go straight to Erbil,

pay the fine,

get on an airplane tomorrow and fly home.

Fuck.

I don't know how long I'm going to be here for.

It was going so well.

I guess you should always be wary when it's going well.

You know, I'm a guest of the Peshmerga.

If there was one thing

that I hoped didn't happen, it was this.

I got interrogated last night.

It was a soft interrogation.

They say that I'll go home soon.

I don't believe them.

I thought they were getting me out of here today all right.

"You're going to Erbil all right."

I'm fucking going to prison in Erbil.

19 days.

19 days I spent in Iraqi prison.

I didn't think I was ever getting out of there.

I can hear them fucking torturing people.

They just would fuck with our heads every day.

"No, no, you get out today,"

and then they would call us in to interrogate us,

"No, you're going to get two years,"

and, um, I'm out.

I'm fucking free.

It looks like I've got my hard drives.

I just verified the one,

and I definitely have media on it,

and there's kind of a scary moment there...

Okay, let's less wounded.

...when they let me out,

and they let me go get my bags,

and I had to get socks out of my bags.

They saw one of my hard drives.

Fortunately, it was one of the empty hard drives,

and I told them it was just movies, you know, like,

"Superman."

He looked like he was getting ready to tear my bag apart

because they never properly searched it.

I can look in my bag, and things are still packed the exact way

that I packed them.

Do you know what this is?

I'll show you this.

This is me leaving.

I made it. I made it.

This is me leaving KRG.

This is me leaving from Syria and the YPG war.

I'm getting on that plane right there.

I just want to feel this thing go down that runway.

I just want to feel it get out of here.

How many months have I waited for this moment?

How many months have I waited for right now?

I can't count them.

How many days and hours?

I couldn't count them.

I never been more grateful to be on an airplane.

Never appreciated freedom more,

what we have,

the opportunities we have where we live.

I did it.

How many friends did I leave back here

who are never coming home?

I'm going home.

I'm going home.

With the fall of Manbij,

ISIS has lost another important supply route

between the Turkish border

and its de facto capital of Raqqa.

It was a relief to be liberated

by the U.S.-supported Syrian democratic forces.

But the war against ISIS is still far from over.

Horrific attacks against innocent people

cannot be tolerated.

ISIS capabilities are now spreading fall from strongholds

in Syria and Iraq.

The United States stands with our allies across the globe.

We cannot let this evil continue or spread

within our own countries.