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That's gonna be pretty
upsetting for him.

No one's ever dared
to go in there.

You think that's gonna
cause a ruckus?

Careful.

Get over here!

What is that?

R.P.G.

R.P.G.?

Oh my god.

That thing is straight out
of China, like, yesterday.

Yeah.

How could they get out of China?

Yeah. That thing's
brand spanking new.

I'm down here, on
Objective Richmond,

and, uh, first platoon can't
get to the first
series of building.

They keep finding
more ammunition.

They keep finding more
mortar fuses.

They keep finding more stuff.

I don't know what it is.

It's a rifle. Bolt
action of some sort.

What does that look like?

Six to seven R.P.G.'s,
probably eight mortars,

a couple box of fuses...

Definitely an indicator that
we caught them by surprise.

Break.

Hey, Zee?

What's up?

Give me eyes on that
bridge at your eleven.

Get down around here now!

Get something in front of you!

Fuck!

We've got contact up on the
hill for our fucking...

Holding six, moving three six.

Yeah. Roger. Where are you
getting fire from?

What target?

I got shot...

Bostic's shot!

My name is Mike Boettcher.

For the past thirty-four years,

my job has given me a front
row seat to history.

As a war correspondent,

it's taken me to some of the
worst places on the planet.

Everything that I have achieved
in my career has come at a high

price. It cost me my
relationship with my

family and my son. I've
missed Christmases,

birthdays, graduations...

You name it. So
when it was time

for me to re-embed with U.S.
Troops in

Afghanistan, my son, Carlos,
decided he was coming, with

or without my permission. He
said, "I need to know why you

chose your work over us." As
much as I wanted to

say no, I realized this could
be my last chance

to reconnect with my son. So
off we went... together,

father and son. The
only trick was...

we had to come out of
there alive.

Looks like they attached two
different wires to try

and make an I.D., maybe
stretch out the wire

so they could get further away
from us, when they

detonate, gives themself a
better chance to get away.

For power? Where
does it go to?

Right into the house.

Well, I know, uh, I know in
his house. I can see that.

I meant, when it goes in here.
Where is it

getting the power from?

Hey, Gould, Gould!

What were you saying again?

He's next to the vehicle.
Why?

So you're a good luck charm?

Whoa!

Whoa! Son of a bitch!

Yeah, still warm, still warm.

Yeah, we got a bunch of
these that we were just shot

at by the enemy from that
hillside. This is

a Dishka round, uh,
little over twelve

millimeter diameter, round,
very deadly when it hits you.

Hey, I'll either go up, left,
right, or back.

He's still too low!

Oh, nice. Good shot.

One person injured.

They are reporting
everything's okay right now.

Good.

It's not gonna be okay.

They don't, they don't know
what's about to hit 'em.

Roger that. I need to go
to the left of that.

There's a rat drill on the
left side of that.

Give me, uh, three shots
rightthere for right now,

so we're gonna you right on her.

Yeah! Good hit!

Whoa, baby!

Two-zero-seven, dark
knightfour-two.

It's good bombs, good bombs.

They see us. They've been
watching us for awhile.

They're moving in position.
They don't think we
can harm them.

Uh, they just haven't
fought us yet.

How close were those
bullets coming to you?

You were close enough to hear
the bzzzz go by, huh?

Gunfire buzzes when it's
close enough to you.

It sounds like a bee passing
over your shoulder,

and that's when we knew that
things were serious.

Steve Lutsky, Colonel Lutsky.

Lutsky was this character who
was larger than life.

He lived to be out front.

I expect
these guys to risk their

lives to get the mission done.
I mean, mission comes first.

I can't ask them to do
something that I
wouldn't do myself.

Now, that's not saying that
I'mlooking for a fight,

but I can't sit in a
truck and say,

"Hey, I want you to go
risk your life."

It was a fight to stay alive
when you were with
Steve Lutsky,

because he was going to be at
that pointy end of the spear.

And sure enough, we were.

Tag two, tag one, over.
They saw three,

uh, possible insurgents.
They went us to head

southwest along the ridge.
Over.

They were regressing
straight south from
that location.

Staying in that low land ridge,
they're probably

hiding somewhere out there,
behind the rock

the rock line, break.

The problem was, the Taliban
found us before we found them.

I'm up here!

The problem is, he had no
idea where they were

firing from. The Soviets call
them "Ghosts," and they

were. I mean, you couldn't...
They were there. They were

somewhere, and they were
shooting at us.

You couldn't see them.

Yeah.

Snipers firing from us,
in the tree line

over there. Snipers
firing at us from the

tree line just over there,
behind some

cover, but not much.

They want us to go up.

Okay, okay.

Okay, I'm going.

Here we go.

Shit.

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!!

I had no idea if he
was alive or not.

I wasn't a reporter then. I
was being a pop.

And the one thing I could not
let happen was...

was to let my son die.

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

What the hell were you thinking?

I told you, don't leave my side.

This is a damn war zone, Carlos.

You okay? Well, you were
covering me, as well, right?

Roger. Yes.

To the best of my ability,
I was.

I thought you did pretty
goodat covering me.

Thanks.

Hey, by the way,
their aim sucks.

Okay, ambushes along the
road are one of many

reasons construction's
taken so long,

with mountainside... Fuck.
I fucked up.

Ambushes along the road are one

of many reasons construction's

taken so long, with the
mountainside providing

no cover, and insurgents
offering no quarter.

All right. That was good.

Any suggestions?

We're getting ready to
clearthat ridge line.

Uh, at least one of
them got hit.

Uh, we saw him go down, so
we're gonna check

for bullet trails and, uh, see
if we can find him.

A.W.T. has nothing on
him right now.

You all right?

These are the first houses
that they would bring him to.

The guy who's wounded?

Yeah.

Hear any of the shooting?

Yeah, we heard the fighting.

One of them was wounded,
so you may

have them come down and cometo
your house for help.

I understand, Polesh and Wally,
that you're going to help them.

Did they come to your house?

He says you can
search, uh, the houses.

Oh, they already are.
They're up there
searching right now.

Watch your head.

What the hell is this?

I, I don't think you're
Taliban, but I think you

turn the other way when
Taliban come through.

We had to arrest the
insurgents and tell them

they're not welcome here.
'Cause I want your

children to be safe. I want
you to be safe too.

I need a roger.

Yeah, we're in route at this
time. A, uh, actually

developed this situation for
what we need, we

need to know when you think we
should come in from the

south, and do it right past,
past the way, north. Over.

Six four, roger.

That'll be six-four-six.

Go, go, go, go!

The American convey was
traveling this direction.

The other way,
civilian vehicles.

They slowed down when the
convey passed.

So did a suicide bomber,
and inside his car,

he has six hundred pounds of
high explosives.

After we realized what happened,

we pushed out of the blast zone.

I got out of the truck. We
realized it was a "vee-bid."

There was a lady off to the
side, next to a, uh, kalat,

and uh, she was screaming that
her kids were dead.

I started calling for the
medic over the radio,

and we just started treating
them, did everything we could.

Private Richter, how long
you been in the Army?

Uh, exactly a
year, sir. That was the first

actual, uh, trauma casualty
I'd... in my care, sir.

And, uh, it didn't
need to happen.

One-oh-one over sixty,
pulse seventy-two.

One two saturation was one
hundred percent.

I looked at the eyes of the
medics, and you could see it.

They weren't gonna let him die.

The name of the child?
We were more

concerned about
saving his leg than

getting his name.

The family has a
patient over here.

Doing okay. He's
supposed to be going,

hopefully, to the O.R. today.

Going back to the O.R.
today?

I'm very happy that
he kept his leg.

We go out of our way
to make sure

people like Sadich
don't get hurt.

In the end, does it
change Afghanistan?

Probably not, but it saved
that kid's life,

and maybe that kid will change
Afghanistan someday.

Get well. We'll see you.

I got a son, Jake, who's
ten years old.

Can you imagine?

No.

Did it sink into you that
you had saved a child's life?

It did, but uh, that's,
that's what I'm here.

That's why all these guys that
are out here do what they do.

It's 'cause they
just wanna help.

Afterwards, ground
unit came up by and

thanked us, and that was
probably the biggest

reward, uh, that I've ever had,
is having the

ground unit come by and
say thank you.

This all-woman crew who put
any men I've known to shame.

I call it, you know, the band
of sisters and a
little brother.

We just consider ourselves
just soldiers, like, like

everyone else, and to us, it's
really not a big deal.

The countdown to hugs and
kisses, and this is Chloe.

She's so cute!

I'm a mom. I understand how
every other mom feels,

and if I was in her shoes, that
I'd want those people

to help my son or daughter out
as much as possible.

Kids are the ones that
usually give all

the good information.
Taliban do the same

thing, from what
we've experienced.

They'll usually go tell the
kids where they

put in an I.E.D. The kids
seem to be the, uh,

the best guys to utilize
for references.

I talked to some kids
here on scene.

They confirm Taliban had
placed an I.E.D.

here about, uh,
forty-eight hours ago.

The villages are the ones
that actually came to us,

and, and A.U.P. and
reportedthis I.E.D.

In my mind, I mean, that's
a very positive

step. Seems like they're
starting to kind of, you

know, support the government
a little bit more.

Naw, I love doing this.

Really?

Yep.

Why?

'Cause right now, my job
is to help protect

these guys, make sure they
don't get hurt.

Yep, got the pressure plate.

Hey, they found the
pressure plate.

Pressure plates on
both sides and

a power source for each
pressure plate.

Wire running off to the
side. There's a little hole

dug right there, with the wires
running down into it.

It's about twelve to
fourteen inches in diameter.

In this area, we haven't
seen charges that big.

It would have done
some damage too.

Yeah, it's pretty, it's a
pretty large charge.

But uh, we've definitely
located, uh, one

pressure plate at this time.
Uh, exploiting

with the robot.

Front line traced to the
pressure plate, Victor

Bravo seven-eight-one-niner,
plate.

Holy hell.

How much you think was in there?

Forty to fifty pounds. I'd
say probably closer

to the fifty pound range.

Tell all the kids
that they need to

stay away from that area, 'cause

there still could be some
stuff out there.

They're doing a lot more
patrolling around this area,

and they'll continue to focus
specifically around this area,

now that we know that bad guys
are putting I.E.D.s.

My intent is for us to
get in there, and

then get out of there
in one piece.

Yeah.

Well, my, my intent is always,
is also to

get out of there in one piece,
so.

But let's not do anything
fucking stupid, huh?

We have a mission tonight,
from here,

past those mountains,
into the always

dangerous river valley.

I believe in each and
every one of you,

and I love each and
every one of you.

You're the most precious
resource that America has.

Trust in your brothers,
dedicate yourself to

American battalion
and our mission.

Your measure is not found in how

much time you have
on this earth.

It's what you do with the
time that you've had.

These people have
suffered for too

long. Change the
course of history

in Afghanistan.

We had marched for days with the

Marines. It was summer,
and it was hot.

One hundred thirty degrees.
Unbelievable.

And we did it all carrying more
than eighty pounds

of gear on our back. We ran
out of everything.

We ran out of food. We
ran out of water.

And then, we got,
finally, to the location that

we're supposed to capture.

This could be Gulf Company's
new home. They're

looking for headquarters to
establish their

presence down here, and we're
going in to check.

It's been eerily quiet. We
haven't had a bullet

fired at us in over
twelve hours.

This is it!

Okay, let's get a team up there.

Next team, coming up!

Roger. Fox One is clearing
the area right now.

Go! Go!

Hot, hot!

Go! Let's go, go, go, go!

Go, go, go, go!

Oh my god.

What is this here?

This is, uh, nitrate to, uh,
make I.E.D.s.

And this is pure heroine
down here, you said?

So what do we have here?

Walled compounds like this
one fill Helmand Province,

providing valuable cover for
Taliban, and for Marines.

Marines say the objective of
this mission was met -

to plant their presence here
and to make a statement to

the Taliban that the Marines
are not leaving.

We knew that we'd
accomplished our mission,

and I was up all night
feeding stories back to

ABC. I was exhausted.
Everyone was.

And the Marine commander said,
"We gotta go
another ten miles."

There is a squad that's
surrounded. Someone

else has to go, and Carlos
came to me, as I was

suiting up, and said, "Pop,
if you do

this, you're gonna die." I
was just too tired.

He said, "I'll go. Not you."

That's my son... saying he'll
go in place of me.

And he went, and I stayed.

Hey, do I got any
friendlies over there?

Right or left?

Uh, go left of the compound.
Keep going

all the way over. You
got the dude in

the white turban that
keeps looking at us?

Yeah.

Naw, it's definitely not them.

All right.

Set south, southwest.

While movement
through the fields

and canals is slow, every step
the Marines take is

one closer to securing peace
in Helmand Province.

Here at Camp Koshtay, the work

continues. The Marines are
now in the position

of setting up this base, in the
heart of this town

called Koshtay, which was a
Taliban stronghold.

There's a copper wire.
Where is it?

Oh, yes. And it's running up to
that compound there.

A patrol this morning
found an I.E.D.

We're walking towards it. They
cut the command wire,

which is a wire that runs to a
device that would trigger

the bomb. Hopefully, that is
the only command wire.

Command, three two.

When you enlisted, you didn't

ask for this job, did you?

Negative.

The villagers did not
come. The Taliban

did not attack. But the
question now is - where
is the Taliban?

Stand by!

Hey, we got two people, six
hundred meters away

from us, moving southeast.

Hey!

Yeah?

Fuck!

Huh?

Hey, what is he talking about?

Send your traffic, O.P. Rock.

I got pan left.

Shoot him, dammit!

I shot that motherfucker
that walked by the compound

down there. I don't know if I
fucking hit him or not.

Saw him running with a fucking
A.K. in his hand.

I don't know if I fucking hit
that son of a bitch.

Shoot him!

Hey, guns and
! Let's go, go!

I hit that son of a bitch.

Go!

Did you see those fuckers?

Just last night, the
platoons of Gulf Company

Two-Eight Marines were
attacked by small arms

fire eleven times, uh,
resulting in two concussions.

It was very lucky that, uh,
there were no major

casualties, or no deaths on
this march south here.

Mike Boettcher for Nightline,
Camp Koshtay, Afghanistan.

Stand by!

What's up?

We got smoke.

Look straight down the road
here is where everyone is.

Hey, one, twos, move in!

Open it up!

Okay, let's go.

Let's go, let's go!

Hey, let's go!

We're taking fire!
We're taking fire!

All I heard on the radio
was that they were in trouble,

and he was surrounded, and
there were Taliban all around,

and they were taking
fire constantly.

Start suppressing! Let's use
suppress across the way.

Good luck!

Let's go, let's go!

Over there!

Gill!

I had no idea what
was happening.

I felt completely helpless. I
didn't know what to do.

I thought I'd never see
my son again.

Yeah!

Go, go! Hey, let's go!

Let's go, dudes!

Yeah, more smoke, bro!

Fuck yeah, brother!

Hell, yeah.

Hey, let's go. We're up,
bro.

Being reunited with
Carlos after that... to see

him alive... was the best damn

thing I've ever seen. The best.

Initially, I was scared
going into it. We heard

that there was gonna be
gunfire directed at us,

all the way down, and so
there was, but after

the first few explosions, after
the initial contact, after

the initial rat-tat-tat of the
A.K.-47s coming at

us, uh, the adrenaline almost
fades and you being to

grow, if not numb,
then used to it.

Carlos grew up real fast,
and I was so proud of him.

My time is almost over, and
now it's Carlos's

turn, and I believe my son is
going to be a better

storyteller than I ever was.
It's his turn.

We want you to meet two people

who are unlike any other, the
only team of journalists

to embed for one solid year, on
the front lines, with

the troops here, and not only
that - they're father and son.

They are Mike and
Carlos Boettcher.

And about twelve
minutes into it, I was

just dying. I was just, my
whole, it was like

the thing where your whole
body overheats,

and I started to feel like
asthmatic, which, probably

'cause I smoke too much, but it
was just way too much.

Yeah, yeah, you gotta...
See, my joints

have a limited shelf life,
so that's why

you don't see me
hitting the gym.

Yeah, true.

Carlos's time was up,
and after everything

we'd experienced here, it
was going to be

tough to watch him go back to
the States without me.

You wake up every morning,
facing death,

and you cherish every
moment you're with

the people you're with, and
here I was, with

my son, and ironically, in a
war zone, we reconnected.

It was worth the risk to be
a father again.

But, I think, deep down,
as afather,

I was relieved that Carlos
was headed home,

because I knew where we
weregoing next

was one of the worst places
you could go in

Afghanistan. It was the
heart of darkness.

Q.Z.R.
controls the entire

northern part of our
area of operation.

He controls, uh, the fighters,
the

equipment, uh, the training,
everything.

He's our number one target.
It's an

extremely important mission.

Now, you're gonna have a lot
of young, inexperienced

fighters, who want to go to toe
to toe with an American,

and they'll get their ass
handed to them, because

they don't know what
they're doing.

They just graduated that,

so they've been instilled
with that bullshit

extremist philosophy. They
don't know any better.

Let 'em come to you. Let
'em come to you.

We can't just air strike
them. It would do no good

to kill him or our enemy, along
with civilians, so

we have to go in, put
boots on the ground,

and root these guys out.

As a leader, you have to, as my

son calls it, manning up, so...
that's what, that's what I did.

This is gonna be the final
nail in the coffin against

this asshole. He's going down.
His abilities to

fight in the future are gonna
be extremely degraded. We're

gonna create a lot of good
things for the people

that don't have the reach of
security forces or

governments as a result of
this. That's all I got.

Necessarily prepared for
exactly what it

was gonna be like,
but some of us

had the worst in mind,
mentally prepared

that way, so we wouldn't have

any surprises.

After almost dying,
why would you

wanna come back to
this hellhole?

I think it was... a personal
thing, on a level that,

you know, I wasn't gonna let
these guys beat me.

I've been through quite a
few fire fights.

I'm not different than
anybody else.

I wanted to get back, get
back in the fight,

whether it be sitting in this
three shop, you know,

doing paperwork or whatever, I
wanted to come back.

We landed at three
in the morning,

and all of us were tense.

Now, based off the map, it
looked like there was a,

a trail that we could
have taken to head.

Pretty sure it does not
exist at all.

It just some trickery the
imagery showed.

I'm glad we waited til
daybreak to actually move,

because somebody would
have actually

broke their leg or, or worse.

Hey, Ramone, take the low trail!

Going through the kalats,
uh, you can tell,

men, men did live there. They
just weren't there,

and the, uh, excuse they gave
of that they were,

um, day workers in Jalalabad,
you know,

is completely ridiculous.

Hey, Zee?

What's up?

Give me eyes on that
bridge at your eleven.

That shit sounds like it's
right in front of us.

Yeah, it does.

We have landed in the
hornet's nest.

Stay down. Stay
behind Jim Coper.

This was command and
controls for the Taliban,

right there in that valley.

And they were gonna make us pay.

Hey, we gotta start getting
them in this fucking kalat.

Can we get the fucking sixties
up on this fucking hilltop?

Yeah, they're working
on it right now.

All right, this is, this
is them right here,

above phase line white,
this is us

down here, the grid
liner section.

They're righthere.
They got packs

moving up and down
this ridge line,

generally east of them.

They're there! I
saw 'em moving!

Fizzo?

Yeah?

Make shit start blowing up!

R.P.G. seven!

R.P.G. seven!

Oh, shit!

In this muddy, friggin'
hillside, we were surrounded,

and I thought, "What's it
gonna feel like when

the bullet comes through me?"

Go ahead, one-six Romeo.

Six-three-six, stand by.

Three pads, two urgent,
one priority.

Break, break, break, break!

Yankee, Delta, zero, four,
niner, three, eight,

six, five, four, one, three,
zero.

I was sitting there on this

mountainside, hearing their
radio calls come in.

"We need choppers now. These
guys are gonna die."

Dammit. I need
that Medevac now.

And you knew... choppers
weren't coming.

Tell them, "Hey, the bird's
coming, the bird's coming,

just hang in there. The
bird's coming."

After awhile, you...
the person saying

it is getting tired and
under-sure, and the

person hearing it is getting
tired and under-sure.

Star cluster?

There he is!

Medevac's inbound?

Yeah. They're in the valley.

Hell, yeah!

You pull in, turn sideways,
and...

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
You just get lit up.

Made multiple attempts,
until the

bird was, you know, it
was damaged so

bad, it actually had
to go and land

for immediate maintenance.

Fuck! Dammit!

A kick in the balls,
more than anything.

As soon as we got 'em here,
we just lost 'em

again. Um... So we had
to wait again.

It was a very low moment,
because you knew...

nothing could get there to you.
You were on your own.

Nothing could get there to you.
You were on your own.

It went through everybody's
mind that, you know...

this might be the day. This,
this might be the day.

You don't know who you
are, how far you will

go, until that moment,
when you know

someone is dying, and if you
don't get there,

they're going to die, and you
may die trying to save them.

And that's what these
soldiers did.

Hey, tell 'em, tell 'em I
want a gun run from

fucking west to east, running
up this spur here.

Arrechaga and the lead
section had already started

moving, roughly twenty
minutes before.

It probably took a couple
minutes before,

uh, they got ambushed. The
insurgents that

were attacking certain
Arrechaga realized

that they had caught 'em
in a bad spot.

In the draw. Hey, they're
in the draw, Meyers.

Roger, sir. Nine-five-nine-
th hr re ee e, hey,

we got eyes on 'em in the
draw now. Over.

Hey! We'll provide coverage
fire. You guys come to me!

Cease fire!

What's that?

What I heard was, uh,
A.C.'s down. My

men need help. It
just clicked into

my head. It was like
muscle memory.

You just run, you
just run to them.

Hey, Wade, get ready!

Ready, sir!

All right, let's get moving.

Let's go, let's go!

In the middle of this
battle, Specialist Lindskog,

this timid young man
who you wouldn't

expect would do anything heroic,

runs through a hail of gunfire,
to try to save

his fellow soldiers and
another Afghan soldier.

Let's go, let's go!

Move!

Go!

Move, move, move, move, move!

Go," he grabbed his bag and
took off running.

He didn't ask a single question.

He just grabbed his bag and

stayed right behind me.

I looked back and I saw
him grab his, his,

his, uh, his side. He
was our medic.

Lindskog was coherent enough to

talk to Sizemore and tell
him,"Hey do this

for thay guy, do this
for that guy."

He wanted to do
everything he could

to give us medical advice,
while he

was hit, on how to treat him.

He treated three people in,
like,

a matter of ten minutes.

Oh, he was fully alert.
He talked,

up until the point he passed,
uh, actually

apologized for not being
able to hang on.

When he was sitting there
bleeding out, he

apologized... for dying.

Go ahead, three-six.

Roger.

How do you process that?

As a reporter with a camera...

You don't.

Fucker!

Roger, we don't know...

Give me this radio. Get
it on battalion.

When we gun it, a
three hundred and

sixty degree fire fight,
coming down on our

current position. You
should have it, right?

Fuck, dude!

I tried to let you know as,
soon as I saw it.

Okay, listen up. Prepare
to copy, all right?

I got two urgent surgicals.
They're

at building one-three-zero.

I could tell by A.C.'s tone
of voice that, uh... I'm, I'm

pretty sure he didn't think he
was gonna make it out of there.

Looked to A.C. like, "A.C.,
this is gonna hurt."

At that point, he was like,
"I don't care. I'll

take the pain. I just wanna
get out of here."

He actually, you know, did
us the big A.C. smile.

Couldn't explain, in words,
how I felt...

After helping them out, having
to run down there,

all that effort... and
you know, the only

thing that I could
question myself,

which I try not to do,
is I could

have ran faster, you know.

Watch it!

Go, go, go, go!

Go, man!

Shit.

It's definitely exposed.

Get back.

Come on. Get
farther in there.

Hey, go in the fucking doors.

Hey, Kent!

Loaded, sir.

He's right here.

All right, breathe.

Who else was with us?

Albright?

Two, three, four, five...

Hey, where's, where's Meyers?

He, he, he didn't make it up.

Hey, Meyers! Meyers!

This is Strong Eagle Three.

Position. Uh, wasn't...
wasn't that easy,

uh, this time, as,
as it has been

in other operations.

He actually had to fix his
boot. His shoelace

was busted, so we were just
joking around a little bit.

Let's talk about the
seven layers of hell.

Yeah. Right here
in Afghanistan.

Well, I think we're at about
layer four or five now.

I heard, like, a couple
Afghanis talking, like,

really quiet, just a
couple whispers,

and they were right in
the trees above

us, and I asked
Sergeant Burgess,

like, we don't have no A and A
right next to us, right?

And he said, "No," and soon as,
soon as he said no...

I heard, I heard 'em flip
their, flip their weapon

to fire, and started
opening up on us.

I'm looking at the trees,
just, you know...

They're literally in
the trees firing

down at us. What is,
what kind of

crazy crap is that?

I started shooting up in
the trees, 'cause

they were directly above us, and

it was all pretty much
chaos from there.

We made a plan to get

the hell out of there, and,
and make sure

we radioed it forward
to the rest of

the element, which we did,
and we

all got up out of there,
and unbeknownst to

us, the gun team stayed behind,
including

Smith, Mark Gonzalez, uh,
Jeremy Faulkner...

Go, man!

That's when Jeremy was, uh,
shot and killed.

We can't fucking move, and we're

waiting on this stuff... Hey!

[indistinct yelling

I heard my buddies saying

that they were hit.

I heard the radio go on,
and I heard

someone kind of whimpering.
No one

told me that there
were casualties.

I knew, because of
that whimpering.

Dusty Feldhaus, he
was hit at least

five times.

...and he was apologizing as
if, you know, he had

something to, to apologize for.
I mean, naw, don't...

you know, "I'm sorry." What
are you sorry for?

So... you're a freaking hero.
We love you.

Yep. Yeah.

We miss you.

My daughter is Makayah.

She turns four next month. My,
my son

is Xander. He turns
three in January.

Cool. You miss 'em?

I do.

How much?

A lot.

All right, Feldhaus, show
us how to fight.

They're dying.

And they're fighting, not for
some war on terror.

They're fighting for
their buddies.

What kept you going?

The rest of these guys.

We all kind of saw it in us
to, to, to try to

be strong, if, if not for us,
for, at

least, you know, the
guy beside us.

I stayed there, even though,
I should...

my, my instinct was to get the
hell out of there,

but I stayed there for all my
guys, my squad, my,

my platoon, stayed there
for the bastards.

They're sacrifices are not
going to be forgotten.

Got, um, hoisted out,
and that was,

that was good, all
three of them.

Continue getting to traffic.

We found a bunch of enemy
weapons, enemy I.D.s, so...

found the radio station.

John, what, what are you
cooking there, dude?

Um, I'm cooking up, uh, paratha.

What? Paratha?

Yeah. Paratha.

Paratha.

Paratha.

Paratha.

Yeah. Paratha.

Paratha.

Looks good.

Inshallah.

You want some, Jim?

Yeah.

Yo!

Hoosa had one whole bread, man.

Hoosa had, he
already had his own.

As a leader, you gotta put it

out of your mind and keep going,

and keep moving on for the guys,

so they don't, uh, they
don't get all

tripped out and stuff, so...
just keep going.

Sure was.

The goat's named Roman.

Roman?

Yeah, Roman.

And, uh, this is a gift
for Captain Maud.

Is that your new friend?

It is my new friend.

I'm gonna name him... Pep.

You okay, Pep? How are you?

Go back to your mama. Go
back to your mother.

Ooh!

First fly! You got it
on camera! Good.

Yay!

You have a problem with a
fucking chicken.

The chicken flew up here and he

just made him, like, reject it.

Damn.

Like, I've never seen
someone just up that
fast in my life.

It was a rough day.

Sure was.

How do you think
today's gonna go?

Hopefully, better than
it was yesterday.

This went on for nine days.

Hey, we got forty-five
seconds til a bomb drop.

Motherfuckers.

Six-four, roger.

Take that! Yeah!

Yes!

I don't think they
liked our bombs.

I don't think they did either.

Do you know why you've done

this for twenty-two years?

Sir, I do not know why
I've done it for

twenty-two years. I've just,
I've enjoyed it, and I've

just kept doing it and... As
long as I can stay

healthy and keep doing it, I'm
gonna keep doing it.

I can't see myself
doing anything else.

Even after a mission like this.

I think that we made a
huge difference here,

that we reduced the
insurgent credibility

here. We went right in
their back yard,

right in their home town, and,
and succeeded.

It's hard to tell
families that their

sacrifice quantifiably
made a difference,

'cause they're ten
thousand miles away,

and you're trying to
explain that to 'em,

and their husband,
their father, their

son is, is, is, uh, is
not coming home.

Attention!

Staff Sergeant Sizemore is
also receiving a second

bronze star Medal of Valor for
Operation Strong Eagle Three.

Time to reflect on how we can
best carry their memory

forward, and ensure their
sacrifice is for a greater

good, and that we'll never let
their memory fade.

It was hard. I knew all
of them, and as

a task force commander, it's
very difficult to, to

know that the orders you gave
for combat cost us.

They gave their life for
what they believed in and

for their buddies. It's our
responsibility to

remember their courage, their
commitment, and their heroism.

Every soldier in No
Slack knows that

if that time comes,
that the honor and

respect is bestowed on them,
for their

ultimate sacrifice will
always be met.

Sound off for roll call!

Sergeant Mendez?

Here, Sir Major.

Sergeant Trickendaus?

Here, Sir Major.

Specialist Lindskog?

Specialist Jameson L. Lindskog?

Lindskog was a young guy.
You know,

who knows what he could have
brought to the world.

Cary Fruthers, as he,
himself, needed

urgent care. This is
heroism defined.

Sergeant First Class Arrechaga?

Sergeant First Class
Ofren Arrechaga.

He was the rock for the
platoon. He was the,

uh, humor. He was always the,
the happy

guy. He always had a
smile on his face.

These bonds are so close that...

you're not gonna leave
somebody out there to

get shot or die by themselves.
You're

gonna run out there
and help them,

no matter what.

Staff Sergeant Frank Adamski.

Staff Sergeant Frank E.
Adamski.

Sergeant Adamski was a
husband, father,

a squad leader, and
my best friend.

Staff Sergeant Bryan Burgess.

Staff Sergeant Bryan A.
Burgess.

The last thing Sergeant
Burgess said to

me was, uh, "Where's my
chariot?" He was

talking about the Medevac bird.

About the sixty that was
hovering above us.

"Where's my chariot?"

And I said, "It's right here."

Specialist Dustin Feldhaus.

Specialist Dustin J. Feldhaus.

We went through thick
and thin together,

and though I am sad that
he's gone, I'll

always cherish the memories
that I have shared with him.

I love you, Mouse. Rest in
peace, brother.

P.F.C, Jeremy Faulkner.

P.F.C. Jeremy P. Faulkner.

With such a famous last
name, I told him he should

live up to it. He
gave back to me,

and no kidding, he told me,
quote,

"I'm gonna make history, sir,
not write about it."

You'll always be remembered, and

you'll always be loved by
all the bastards.

Rest in peace, Remy.

It becomes, uh, to a point,
that it gets to be enough.

All these men, his men, dead.

He didn't know the
camera was rolling.

He hung back the whole time.
When

no one else was around, he
walked up, and he

let the tears of this entire
war come out, right there.

And I could do nothing...

but cry, myself.

You sit down and you
come to grips with

your life. But you have
to realize that

what you've done is
something important.

And you hope you've left
something behind.

We only do this to make
a difference.

That's why you constantly
keep going back,

keep fighting, keep trying to
tell these stories.

Otherwise, my whole life's
been for nothing.

You know something? It's
been for something.

It has.

I think I have an I.E.D.
on you.

We'll have to dig and find out.

Dude.

Is she still following me?

Yep.

Good luck with that tractor.

Hey, buddy. How you doing?

High, high five. There you go!

Fist bump! No fist bump?

No.

Oh. I'm hurt.

Mott, hold the tea cup up
and said, "America."

"America."

Yeah! Whoo!

What do you miss most
about home on Fourth of July?

Spending time with my family.

But I have my new family here,
so I'll spend quality

time with my new family.
To everybody

back home, I miss you
and I love you.

What kind of message
would you wanna give

Americans about what you've
been doing here,

and on this Fourth of July?

I'd say, uh, to support the
troops. It's, uh, it's

pretty tough, being out here.

We're so blessed with what
we have back in the States,

and I just hope everyone
remembers that back home.

Puts a different perspective
on what it means to
be American.