1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:45,345 --> 00:00:47,112 All right, this is what's going on. 4 00:00:47,113 --> 00:00:49,815 Me, O'Bizzle... O'Bizzle. 5 00:00:49,816 --> 00:00:52,017 - I got it, I got it, man I'm the narrator. - O'Bizzle fo' shizzle. 6 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:54,953 Me, Peebs, and Kim. 7 00:00:54,954 --> 00:00:57,356 Kim, you got something to say? 8 00:00:57,357 --> 00:00:59,391 - Yeah, you got something to say. - Kim? 9 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,696 You all know tonight is going to going to be crazy. 10 00:01:04,697 --> 00:01:06,565 Stupid crazy. 11 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:08,767 What's your sole mission, O'Byrne? 12 00:01:08,768 --> 00:01:11,303 Man, to keep you out of hand. 13 00:01:11,304 --> 00:01:15,074 You can't... you can't tame the beast. 14 00:01:15,075 --> 00:01:17,443 Peebs, tell them. How do we roll? 15 00:01:17,444 --> 00:01:20,579 Got 'em. Got 'em. 16 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:23,282 Tune in next time where we're going to be still loving life 17 00:01:23,283 --> 00:01:26,251 and getting ready to go to war. 18 00:01:26,252 --> 00:01:28,253 - What? - All right, baby. 19 00:01:28,254 --> 00:01:30,656 - War, Afghanistan, what? - Say it again, baby, say it again. 20 00:01:30,657 --> 00:01:32,658 - I didn't even sign my passport. - Baby. 21 00:01:32,659 --> 00:01:35,227 - I didn't even sign my passport. - We're going to war. We're going to war. 22 00:01:35,228 --> 00:01:37,229 We're going to war. We're going to war. 23 00:01:40,533 --> 00:01:42,534 Roger. 24 00:02:36,556 --> 00:02:38,524 Oh, we're fucking hit. 25 00:02:38,525 --> 00:02:40,726 - This is an IED, over. - LED. 26 00:02:40,727 --> 00:02:43,128 - Keep going, keep going! Keep... - What was that? 27 00:02:43,129 --> 00:02:45,130 - Shots. - Eight o'clock. 28 00:02:45,131 --> 00:02:47,666 - Get on that gun! - What are we doing? 29 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:50,669 Aim for that draw! Right now! 30 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:52,137 That way. 31 00:02:54,841 --> 00:02:57,476 We gotta get out. We gotta get out of here. 32 00:02:57,477 --> 00:02:59,144 We're getting out! 33 00:02:59,145 --> 00:03:01,146 Fucking motherfucker. 34 00:03:01,147 --> 00:03:04,816 Shot, eight o'clock. 300 meters. 35 00:03:04,817 --> 00:03:08,654 Shot, eight o'clock. 102 meters. 36 00:03:37,116 --> 00:03:39,117 You know what? 37 00:03:39,118 --> 00:03:41,753 When they told me I was going to the Korengal Valley, 38 00:03:41,754 --> 00:03:44,990 I really didn't, uh, I didn't read anything up on it. I didn't want to. 39 00:03:44,991 --> 00:03:47,025 I wanted to go in there with an open mind. 40 00:03:47,026 --> 00:03:50,963 The Colonel told me initially they take fire every single day. 41 00:03:50,964 --> 00:03:53,765 I was like, God, how the hell do you take fire every single day from somebody? 42 00:03:53,766 --> 00:03:55,567 You got to go out there and go kill the damn enemy. 43 00:03:55,568 --> 00:03:57,035 Quit being, you know, scared. 44 00:03:57,036 --> 00:03:58,937 Go out there and get 'em. 45 00:03:58,938 --> 00:04:01,740 And the Colonel and I came up with, you know, 46 00:04:01,741 --> 00:04:04,443 what we thought was going to be our campaign plan and that, uh, 47 00:04:04,444 --> 00:04:08,880 after two months of being there I would fix it and that we wouldn't get shot at anymore. 48 00:05:13,713 --> 00:05:16,782 The very first day, I remember coming in, 49 00:05:16,783 --> 00:05:19,084 and one of the pilots and stuff, and they said, hey, 50 00:05:19,085 --> 00:05:21,987 if you look over there to your left, uh, that's Pakistan. 51 00:05:21,988 --> 00:05:25,457 You know, and we're like, you know, we all, okay, that's Pakistan. 52 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:29,861 And then they're all mountains, you know, high elevation. 53 00:05:29,862 --> 00:05:33,732 And as you go in elevation, it starts to get a little bit colder. 54 00:05:35,935 --> 00:05:38,070 And then we go up into the Korengal Valley. 55 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:48,814 I remember looking out the little bubble windows on the side, kind of just like this, 56 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:50,982 because I was right next to the window. 57 00:05:50,983 --> 00:05:56,722 And I could see when the Chinook had made a hard right turn into the valley. 58 00:05:56,723 --> 00:05:59,458 I was like, holy shit. 59 00:05:59,459 --> 00:06:01,193 We're not ready for this. 60 00:06:01,194 --> 00:06:05,297 We flew around for about half-hour, 45 minutes above the KOP, 61 00:06:05,298 --> 00:06:08,033 and you're just looking down there, 62 00:06:08,034 --> 00:06:11,370 and you're like, this is in the middle of nowhere right now. 63 00:06:11,371 --> 00:06:13,572 You're away from everything. 64 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:20,278 Honestly, when I first got to the Korengal, I was like, this is a shit hole. 65 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,014 My mindset was like, oh snap, I'm going to die here. 66 00:06:26,119 --> 00:06:30,522 I remember getting off the bird and walking up the hill to the hooch. 67 00:06:30,523 --> 00:06:34,025 Hey, Jones, you guys standing up right there, you're wrong. 68 00:06:34,026 --> 00:06:35,293 Come on, guys, better get moving. 69 00:06:36,429 --> 00:06:40,665 And just sucking... 70 00:06:40,666 --> 00:06:43,034 and thinking what are we doing? 71 00:06:46,606 --> 00:06:52,010 It started getting dark, and monkeys were howling, 72 00:06:52,011 --> 00:06:54,112 And I thought they were Taliban. 73 00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:58,450 And I thought, holy shit they're close. 74 00:06:58,451 --> 00:07:00,385 Everybody's like, oh, you're going to the Korengal? 75 00:07:00,386 --> 00:07:02,320 And they feel sorry for you and everything like that. 76 00:07:02,321 --> 00:07:04,423 I'm like, dude, it can't be that bad, you know? 77 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:07,492 I show up there and you're burning your own feces. 78 00:07:07,493 --> 00:07:10,295 You know, you're living in a tent. 79 00:07:10,296 --> 00:07:14,866 I literally lived in a bunker, you know, about that high, I couldn't even stand up in. 80 00:07:14,867 --> 00:07:17,869 See bullet holes all rattled into the Hescos and when you look up, it's like, 81 00:07:17,870 --> 00:07:19,871 I don't even know why I have Hescos here 82 00:07:19,872 --> 00:07:23,708 because they're not going to stop the bullets that are coming down from the mountains. 83 00:07:23,709 --> 00:07:29,514 So I felt like I was... I was like fish in a barrel. 84 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:43,795 They're gathering intel right now, basically, on how to deal with us, 85 00:07:43,796 --> 00:07:48,400 because they haven't... There's no really research or intel 86 00:07:48,401 --> 00:07:51,036 on how to treat us right now, 87 00:07:51,037 --> 00:07:56,341 because they haven't had to deal with people like us since World War II and Vietnam, 88 00:07:56,342 --> 00:07:59,277 you know, dealing with guys that are coming back from 15-month deployments 89 00:07:59,278 --> 00:08:02,414 with as much fighting, you know, as we went through. 90 00:08:24,470 --> 00:08:28,039 Hey, go on that ridgeline, fucking now! 91 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:49,861 Hey, roger, I'm up here by OP four. 92 00:08:49,862 --> 00:08:53,164 We're scanning and if we have to, we'll move into contact. 93 00:08:53,165 --> 00:08:55,500 I got myself, Riegel, and Thomas over here. 94 00:08:55,501 --> 00:08:57,969 Roger, over. 95 00:08:57,970 --> 00:09:00,505 Hey, I'm about to find this bastard, and I'm going to kill him, over. 96 00:09:00,506 --> 00:09:03,308 Okay, roger. So it's coming from 1705 and 00. 97 00:09:03,309 --> 00:09:07,913 We should be firing on those here right now, break. 98 00:09:07,914 --> 00:09:09,581 Hang it! 99 00:09:09,582 --> 00:09:11,883 Fire! Firing! 100 00:09:31,604 --> 00:09:35,874 The Korengal Outpost is at the 6-3 gridline, and then the 6-2 gridline... 101 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:40,946 The insurgency has, like, drawn this imaginary line in the sand there, 102 00:09:40,947 --> 00:09:42,948 and every time the guys come out of Firebase Phoenix 103 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:44,950 and they cross the 6-2 gridline, 104 00:09:44,951 --> 00:09:49,287 I mean, like, no shit, every time they cross the 6-2 gridline, they get in contact. 105 00:09:49,288 --> 00:09:54,426 So I want to extend the security bubble, because wherever I can place troops 106 00:09:54,427 --> 00:09:56,428 and wherever I can provide security 107 00:09:56,429 --> 00:09:59,297 is where I'm going to be able to have an influence on the populace. 108 00:09:59,298 --> 00:10:04,035 The hard part is, is that they're so deeply rooted down here because of family ties 109 00:10:04,036 --> 00:10:09,541 and because of religious ideals, that getting these people to push out the insurgency 110 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:13,078 and basically push out their family members is going to be the hard part. 111 00:10:13,079 --> 00:10:17,515 Right now the road ends at the Korengal Outpost, 112 00:10:17,516 --> 00:10:20,852 and where the road ends is where the Taliban begins. 113 00:10:26,592 --> 00:10:29,894 We've been getting reports that they've been watching us throughout the day, 114 00:10:29,895 --> 00:10:35,066 so the contact right now I'd say is likely or imminent. 115 00:10:45,711 --> 00:10:48,546 - Good to see you. - Move southeast. It's this way. 116 00:10:48,547 --> 00:10:50,882 Do you want chai? 117 00:10:50,883 --> 00:10:52,884 We don't have time to sit down and have chai tonight. 118 00:10:52,885 --> 00:10:55,220 I just wanted to come in and talk to you briefly about the project. 119 00:10:55,221 --> 00:10:58,490 How many people are you actually going to use to build the project? 120 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:01,993 What's up? 121 00:11:01,994 --> 00:11:03,995 You see that last house, to the right of it? 122 00:11:03,996 --> 00:11:07,198 Brownish fucking bush about fucking 15, 20 meters to the right? 123 00:11:07,199 --> 00:11:08,333 Yeah? 124 00:11:08,334 --> 00:11:11,236 Someone turned around that corner, saw us and went right back around, dude. 125 00:11:23,883 --> 00:11:26,685 We're going to be moving in darkness. You're going to be lead, so... 126 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:28,620 We could move now if you need to. 127 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:47,439 Okay, spread out. 128 00:12:04,523 --> 00:12:06,758 I'm pushing up here. 129 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:09,427 Whoa, a tracer came right by here! 130 00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:16,901 Hey! 131 00:12:16,902 --> 00:12:19,104 There's fire coming. They're shooting. 132 00:12:19,105 --> 00:12:20,905 Over there! 133 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:23,241 Where? Over where? Tell me, sir, tell me. 134 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:25,176 Kim! 135 00:12:32,985 --> 00:12:35,854 The first friend I lost was Vimoto, 136 00:12:35,855 --> 00:12:38,957 and that was right at the beginning of the deployment. That hit hard. 137 00:12:38,958 --> 00:12:43,795 And then a month after that, I lost Restrepo. 138 00:12:43,796 --> 00:12:47,298 The day that Restrepo got killed, 139 00:12:47,299 --> 00:12:50,201 it came across the net that we had troops in contact. 140 00:12:50,202 --> 00:12:53,238 Then they called back in and said that we have a casualty. 141 00:12:53,239 --> 00:12:56,040 I need you to give me fire, Cortez. 142 00:12:56,041 --> 00:13:01,846 We didn't know who it was, because nobody was saying anything over the radio. 143 00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:03,081 When you hear someone's hit, 144 00:13:03,082 --> 00:13:05,283 your first reaction is just like, fuck, like, no. 145 00:13:05,284 --> 00:13:10,221 And then you start going through your head all the people that you know out there 146 00:13:10,222 --> 00:13:13,625 and wanting to eliminate your friends and the people that were closest to you... 147 00:13:13,626 --> 00:13:17,295 You know, not this guy. Not this guy. Not this guy. 148 00:13:19,365 --> 00:13:21,366 You know, your heart just sank. 149 00:13:21,367 --> 00:13:23,301 You were like, fuck. 150 00:13:23,302 --> 00:13:25,970 I mean, it was Doc Restrepo. 151 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:31,442 He was shot in the neck twice... 152 00:13:33,579 --> 00:13:37,749 but he was stable, so that was a relief for us. 153 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:40,218 We say, okay, he's going to be okay, because we looked at him. 154 00:13:40,219 --> 00:13:43,154 When he gets on the aircraft, he's still breathing. 155 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:47,525 But he, it hit his, um, artery in his neck, 156 00:13:47,526 --> 00:13:49,527 and he bled out. 157 00:13:49,528 --> 00:13:54,332 He bled out on the helicopter ride to the emergency room 158 00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:57,068 where they take you when you get shot. 159 00:14:00,973 --> 00:14:03,708 - This is the big danger area right now. - Okay. 160 00:14:03,709 --> 00:14:07,245 Because if we're here and they start opening up on us... 161 00:14:07,246 --> 00:14:08,246 You're in between. 162 00:14:08,247 --> 00:14:13,318 But if we clear down, you guys could use my weapons squad as an indicator 163 00:14:13,319 --> 00:14:15,720 for where they are, and that's your right limit of fire, man. 164 00:14:15,721 --> 00:14:17,856 Shoot anything up the mountain. 165 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:22,627 I would say since we haven't been down here and we don't know what's in here, 166 00:14:22,628 --> 00:14:25,697 I'm going to fucking assume the worst, because it's near Kalaygal, 167 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:28,333 and that they have fortified fighting positions throughout here. 168 00:14:28,334 --> 00:14:30,335 Okay. 169 00:14:30,336 --> 00:14:34,072 What were we doing in the Korengal? 170 00:14:34,073 --> 00:14:36,908 Our purpose in the Korengal... They had a road, 171 00:14:36,909 --> 00:14:42,113 and the intent was this road to go through the Korengal and go out to Chowkay Valley 172 00:14:42,114 --> 00:14:45,416 to be able to connect the locals 173 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:49,187 where they can have an easy route up towards the Pech River Valley. 174 00:14:49,188 --> 00:14:54,525 And our job there was to try to sustain the security for the personnel, 175 00:14:54,526 --> 00:14:56,961 to allow them to build that road. 176 00:14:56,962 --> 00:15:00,331 You know, five, ten years from now, 177 00:15:00,332 --> 00:15:04,068 the Korengal Valley is going to have a road going through it that's paved. 178 00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:06,404 And we can make more money, make you guys richer, 179 00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:09,574 make you guys more powerful. What I need though, 180 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:13,945 is I need you to join with the government, you know, provide us with that security 181 00:15:13,946 --> 00:15:16,681 or help us provide you guys with that security. 182 00:15:16,682 --> 00:15:19,851 And I'll flood this whole place with money and with projects 183 00:15:19,852 --> 00:15:22,086 and with healthcare and with everything. 184 00:15:37,903 --> 00:15:40,939 Remember last week when we said that everything that happened in the past 185 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:43,808 when Captain McKnight was here... We're kind of, like, wiping the slate clean. 186 00:15:43,809 --> 00:15:46,044 Captain Kearney's got a new slate. 187 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:55,887 Let's put it behind, and let's get on with what we've got to do now. 188 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:06,464 Growing up in Oregon, I wasn't allowed to have sugar 'til I was, like, 13, 189 00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:10,735 because my mom was a fucking hippie. 190 00:16:10,736 --> 00:16:15,306 And she'd always have us doing, like, little hippie children things, I guess... 191 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:22,847 Making, like, homemade paper or painting something or going, like, on nature walks. 192 00:16:22,848 --> 00:16:25,750 It was a nice childhood. I just wasn't allowed to have toy guns 193 00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:28,753 or anything like that, like boys should have, I guess... 194 00:16:28,754 --> 00:16:33,925 Little toy guns or, like, violent video games or watch any violent movies at all. 195 00:16:33,926 --> 00:16:38,997 Like I had a toy squirt gun that was a turtle, and my parents took it away 196 00:16:38,998 --> 00:16:40,999 because it said "squirt gun"... It had "gun" on there. 197 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,934 Fire! 198 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:05,089 Right now priority... 199 00:17:12,097 --> 00:17:16,467 For the first few months of the deployment... 200 00:17:16,468 --> 00:17:19,404 we'd get rocked hard. They'd hit us from... 201 00:17:19,405 --> 00:17:24,208 They'd ambush us at 360 degrees. 202 00:17:24,209 --> 00:17:26,210 I remember thinking, you know, holy shit, 203 00:17:26,211 --> 00:17:29,614 did everybody from the entire country come to this valley? 204 00:17:29,615 --> 00:17:33,518 Is nobody else fighting anymore? Is every bad guy in my face? 205 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,188 Oh, shit! 206 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:38,689 Motherfuckers. 207 00:17:38,690 --> 00:17:40,958 In the entire country of Afghanistan, 208 00:17:40,959 --> 00:17:46,130 we dropped something close to 70 percent of all the ordinance. 209 00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:50,535 All the bombs that were dropped at that particular time 210 00:17:50,536 --> 00:17:52,537 were dropped in the Korengal Valley. 211 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:55,039 As CNN dubbed it one day when Bush saw it 212 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,442 and said, you know, the ugliest place on Earth... 213 00:17:57,443 --> 00:17:59,444 The Korengal Valley. 214 00:17:59,445 --> 00:18:04,816 But to my family, I never really told them much 215 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:07,518 until about halfway into the deployment. 216 00:18:08,954 --> 00:18:10,988 I didn't tell them when Vimoto died. 217 00:18:10,989 --> 00:18:13,891 I didn't tell them when Sergeant Padilla lost his arm. 218 00:18:13,892 --> 00:18:18,663 I didn't tell them when Pisec got shot. I didn't tell them when Restrepo got killed. 219 00:18:18,664 --> 00:18:22,667 And then when Restrepo got killed was a few days before my mom's birthday also. 220 00:18:22,668 --> 00:18:28,272 So I had to... I had to suck it up when I called my mom on her birthday 221 00:18:28,273 --> 00:18:33,478 and act like everything was okay and say "Hey, Mom, happy birthday," you know, 222 00:18:33,479 --> 00:18:36,881 like, "Yeah, I am doing really good out here, everything's fine." 223 00:18:56,668 --> 00:19:01,305 The change came when we in OP Restrepo. 224 00:19:01,306 --> 00:19:04,842 In the middle of the night we put up a firebase on top of the place 225 00:19:04,843 --> 00:19:11,482 that they had used as their enemy kinetic, you know, point of attack, 226 00:19:11,483 --> 00:19:16,087 or of origin of their attack, for the last 15 months. 227 00:19:17,723 --> 00:19:22,894 We walked up the Spur with shovels and picks. 228 00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:27,365 We worked all though the night just to make a small semicircle to chill in. 229 00:19:27,366 --> 00:19:30,935 We slept for maybe a couple hours each, started doing it again. 230 00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:35,339 That day we got in five, seven firefights. 231 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:37,041 Everybody good? 232 00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:40,611 - Yeah, we're gonna... - Yeah! 233 00:19:40,612 --> 00:19:42,613 We'd dig. They'd shoot at us. 234 00:19:42,614 --> 00:19:45,283 They'd see us digging, building this new place. They'd shoot. 235 00:19:45,284 --> 00:19:48,853 We'd shoot back. Once it lulled down, we started digging again. 236 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:52,523 When the boys built that base, 237 00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:57,061 the Taliban, or the AAF forces in the valley, they were completely in shock. 238 00:19:57,062 --> 00:20:00,064 It was like a middle finger sticking out. 239 00:20:00,065 --> 00:20:06,504 And they realized once they could not knock off OP Restrepo, we had the upper hand. 240 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:09,006 They started becoming afraid. 241 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:11,108 Eat some, turban head! 242 00:20:11,109 --> 00:20:14,011 Hey, hit the bottom right. Hit the bottom right of the village. 243 00:20:14,012 --> 00:20:16,681 - Get this! - Bottom right. Go right more. 244 00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:26,657 Hey, Solo, that's you. I'm not shooting over everybody. 245 00:20:26,658 --> 00:20:31,062 - Let's go, let's go! - He's down in the draw! 246 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,064 - He's down in the draw. - Down in the draw. 247 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:34,999 How close? 248 00:20:55,454 --> 00:20:57,455 Buno, get your come up. 249 00:21:01,226 --> 00:21:03,561 Make sure you got fucking SAW and a .203 with you. 250 00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:06,831 - You're taking Wilson, Cortez. - Cortez. 251 00:21:06,832 --> 00:21:08,766 Don't worry, I'll... 252 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:18,643 Don't worry. There's very few that I just straight up hope don't make it. 253 00:21:24,316 --> 00:21:29,353 A month or two into it, it was still a shitty place. We were covered in dirt, 254 00:21:29,354 --> 00:21:35,293 digging all the time, getting in firefights, like four or five firefights a day. 255 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:41,866 And so we... the majority of us really didn't feel like it should be called OP Restrepo. 256 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:45,036 It was just a shitty place. It was just... 257 00:21:45,037 --> 00:21:50,007 It just didn't resemble the type of person that he was. 258 00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:17,001 Scuffing up my notes. 259 00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:29,947 Feels like longer than forever, yeah 260 00:22:29,948 --> 00:22:34,085 My home is now a distant land 261 00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:37,822 If I had one wish, I wish I could be 262 00:22:37,823 --> 00:22:41,859 Back on that rock in the middle of the sea 263 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:45,663 My heart is calling me to the islands 264 00:22:45,664 --> 00:22:49,967 Blue skies and tropical breeze 265 00:22:49,968 --> 00:22:54,071 I want to go back home 266 00:22:54,072 --> 00:22:57,808 Swim in the Pacific Sea 267 00:22:57,809 --> 00:22:59,810 You can take the boy from the island 268 00:23:01,813 --> 00:23:03,614 But not the island from the boy 269 00:23:05,717 --> 00:23:07,318 The island stays in your heart 270 00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:17,328 I'll never forget where I'm from 271 00:23:17,329 --> 00:23:18,729 Oh, no, I'll never forget 272 00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:24,702 Where I'm from 273 00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:03,374 Sir. How you doing, sir? Good to see you again. 274 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:04,475 Good seeing you again. 275 00:24:04,476 --> 00:24:07,178 Welcome to the KOP. I'd like to take you up over there, sir, 276 00:24:07,179 --> 00:24:09,880 maybe just try to give you the once over the world here. 277 00:24:09,881 --> 00:24:13,184 This is the southern Korengal. 278 00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:15,920 This is, uh, I guess you could call it, this is the war zone. 279 00:24:15,921 --> 00:24:17,922 This is where it's all happening. 280 00:24:17,923 --> 00:24:21,826 This is where the majority of the population of the Korengal lives 281 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:24,595 and probably about 90% of the fighting. 282 00:24:24,596 --> 00:24:28,632 If you look just to the south here to that third spur that you see down there, 283 00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:32,970 which is called Honcho Hill, that is like the enemy... I guess you could say... 284 00:24:32,971 --> 00:24:34,972 Limit of advance for us. 285 00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:37,241 Like, we can't go any further south than that. 286 00:24:37,242 --> 00:24:38,642 - What do you call it... Honcho? - Honcho Hill. 287 00:24:39,911 --> 00:24:42,446 - Honcho Hill. - You follow that spur, 288 00:24:42,447 --> 00:24:44,415 and you go all the way up here, Sergeant Major, 289 00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:47,117 - and you might be able to see that... - The tip of the... 290 00:24:47,118 --> 00:24:49,787 that top of the OP. You can see all the bee huts and stuff. 291 00:24:49,788 --> 00:24:51,722 That's OP Restrepo. 292 00:24:51,723 --> 00:24:55,826 Everything south of that is the enemy sanctuary. 293 00:24:55,827 --> 00:25:00,764 Battle 6, Battle 2-5, I have around 15 up near Restrepo. 294 00:25:00,765 --> 00:25:04,702 Nothing out of the ordinary as far as movement in the southwest today. 295 00:25:04,703 --> 00:25:09,673 Nothing but women and children out tending to the fields and crops. 296 00:25:09,674 --> 00:25:15,312 Enemy assessment... we've got the AAF are in the final stages to start their attack 297 00:25:15,313 --> 00:25:18,382 and moving and getting everything in place. 298 00:25:18,383 --> 00:25:22,753 Last 24, conduct a movement to contact into Loy Kalay, 299 00:25:22,754 --> 00:25:27,825 separate the AAF from the populace in order to spread new IO (information operations) themes. 300 00:25:44,109 --> 00:25:47,278 Hey, Cunningham, on a side note, how's the fam? 301 00:25:49,681 --> 00:25:52,716 How's the what? 302 00:25:52,717 --> 00:25:54,952 - The fam. - The family? 303 00:25:54,953 --> 00:25:56,554 Billy. 304 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,822 Good. They're pretty good. 305 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,062 Were they happy to see your crazy self? 306 00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:08,299 Yeah, yeah, it was a good time, man. 307 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,968 Got to hang out at the ranch and everything like that, you know? 308 00:26:10,969 --> 00:26:13,604 Got to see pretty much everyone in the family almost. 309 00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:19,677 Your family owns a ranch? 310 00:26:19,678 --> 00:26:22,546 Of course. 311 00:26:22,547 --> 00:26:26,850 Like cows and pigs and chickens and horses ranch? 312 00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:28,485 No. 313 00:26:28,486 --> 00:26:31,055 Like what kind of ranch, then? 314 00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:41,799 It's like a ranch just with like land, you know, 315 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,501 with gates and stuff and trucks and whatnot. 316 00:26:44,502 --> 00:26:47,771 Some guns, some wildlife, you know, that you shoot at. 317 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:53,444 Okay, so it's just a whole bunch of land that they kill stuff on. 318 00:26:54,746 --> 00:26:57,815 Yeah. It's kind of like this. 319 00:26:57,816 --> 00:27:02,052 Yeah, but we're not hunting animals, we're hunting people. 320 00:27:08,226 --> 00:27:10,227 Hearts and minds. 321 00:27:12,263 --> 00:27:13,764 Fucking feed tray. 322 00:27:13,765 --> 00:27:16,767 Yeah. We'll take their hearts, and we'll take their minds. 323 00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:27,311 All right, listen up. Today we're going to conduct a movement to contact. 324 00:27:27,312 --> 00:27:30,814 The purpose is to talk to the locals about some IO themes, 325 00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:32,816 as far as the road construction team coming in. 326 00:27:32,817 --> 00:27:35,319 Get some workers from their village to take part in that. 327 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,989 Talk about the cow incident. 328 00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:41,492 - Also... - It was delicious. 329 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:45,596 Talk about anything out of the ordinary as far as AAF moving in through their area. 330 00:27:45,597 --> 00:27:47,798 See if they can give us any information on that. 331 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:50,334 Anyone have any questions? 332 00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:58,308 Guys, it's gonna suck, but I'm going to work you guys into the ground. 333 00:27:58,309 --> 00:28:01,211 I need you guys to go out there and do a patrol in the village 334 00:28:01,212 --> 00:28:03,480 because I need you to keep the enemy off his toes. 335 00:28:03,481 --> 00:28:05,949 I need you to go out there and push the enemy back 336 00:28:05,950 --> 00:28:07,785 so we can buy some white space, 337 00:28:07,786 --> 00:28:09,820 so you guys can go back up there and work your asses off 338 00:28:09,821 --> 00:28:12,856 filling up these sandbags so that you guys, when do get hit, 339 00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:15,459 you get hit but you got something to hide behind. 340 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:19,997 And the best defense is who has the greater offense. 341 00:28:23,802 --> 00:28:25,869 3-3-4. 342 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:29,339 6-1 -4-9. 343 00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:33,077 Elevation 1 -5-7-9. 344 00:28:33,078 --> 00:28:36,680 And we are set in Koringal. 345 00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:43,380 What's your father do? 346 00:29:46,217 --> 00:29:50,521 A shepherd? What do you do? Are you a shepherd, too? 347 00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:55,159 Let me see your hands. Your hands. 348 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,361 He's got pretty clean hands for being a goat herder. 349 00:30:05,770 --> 00:30:07,971 Where'd you get that watch, man? 350 00:30:07,972 --> 00:30:10,440 You guys got a lot of goats? 351 00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:13,310 60 goats. 352 00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:15,813 60 goats? That's pretty wealthy, right, Abdul? 353 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,447 Yeah. 354 00:30:17,448 --> 00:30:20,517 Well, what do you know about the people in Kalaygal? 355 00:30:30,361 --> 00:30:32,362 He says... 356 00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:42,406 Roger, we haven't found anybody else to talk to. 357 00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:44,608 We're going to start pushing back now. 358 00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:48,378 Hey, 2-2, this is Bravo 1. Start pushing out towards the trail. 359 00:31:00,892 --> 00:31:02,893 Oh, fuck. 360 00:31:23,648 --> 00:31:25,816 What have they got? 361 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:28,051 Oh, I guess a guy running. 362 00:31:28,052 --> 00:31:30,053 - A guy running? - Yeah. 363 00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:31,521 Hey, Liz! 364 00:31:33,591 --> 00:31:36,159 Lookit. See? 365 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,629 We've seen a guy run from that house once or twice before. 366 00:31:38,630 --> 00:31:40,631 I just don't like the way it is. 367 00:31:40,632 --> 00:31:43,367 I don't like how it feels right now. 368 00:31:43,368 --> 00:31:46,169 You want him watching towards the village or down in the draw? 369 00:31:46,170 --> 00:31:49,606 - Towards the back side of the house. - Watch the back side of the house. 370 00:31:57,315 --> 00:31:59,316 Hey! 371 00:32:01,953 --> 00:32:06,456 Sit down. 372 00:32:21,706 --> 00:32:25,509 They found a BDU top. I've got eyes on it right now, over. 373 00:32:30,581 --> 00:32:34,685 Hey, keep on searching this whole house. Search. 374 00:32:34,686 --> 00:32:38,221 Yeah, yeah, like this, good. Okay. 375 00:32:38,222 --> 00:32:42,025 Who does this belong to? 376 00:32:42,026 --> 00:32:44,428 Never mind. 377 00:32:44,429 --> 00:32:46,563 Hey... 378 00:32:57,608 --> 00:33:01,044 "If I go with you, I'm not going to go with you right now. 379 00:33:01,045 --> 00:33:04,614 - I will come back to the KOP." - No, no, he's going... he's coming with us. 380 00:33:04,615 --> 00:33:06,850 This guy, he was already at the house. 381 00:33:06,851 --> 00:33:10,954 This guy came up later, saw us, and starting taking off running. 382 00:33:10,955 --> 00:33:14,958 I got him, and ever since he started doing what he's doing now. 383 00:33:17,695 --> 00:33:21,965 Hey, tell these guys I'm gonna sit them in my truck, they need to sit on their hands. 384 00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:29,406 Right now what we're tracking came in the valley on April the 11th. 385 00:33:29,407 --> 00:33:35,345 There's fifteen 107-milimeter rockets, several cases of PKM and AK ammo. 386 00:33:35,346 --> 00:33:37,881 The fear is always there, 387 00:33:37,882 --> 00:33:41,118 especially at night when you can't see what's coming at you. 388 00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:48,225 When we started there, we only had maybe fourteen guys up there. 389 00:33:48,226 --> 00:33:50,060 I mean, it doesn't take much. 390 00:33:50,061 --> 00:33:54,331 A few automatic weapons will keep, you know, a squad pinned down, 391 00:33:54,332 --> 00:33:58,535 while they could easily come up from a side and flank you 392 00:33:58,536 --> 00:34:01,838 and, you know, go basically clear house. 393 00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:04,241 Nobody's going to help you. You're in no man's land. 394 00:34:04,242 --> 00:34:08,779 The KOP is only seven hundred, eight hundred meters away, 395 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,482 but that might as well be in a different country 396 00:34:12,483 --> 00:34:14,151 because they're not getting to you. 397 00:34:15,153 --> 00:34:16,420 Not in time. 398 00:34:37,642 --> 00:34:39,376 KOP's taking indirect right now. 399 00:34:40,978 --> 00:34:42,312 KOP's taking indirect. 400 00:34:54,192 --> 00:34:56,526 Can't see shit what they're doing. 401 00:34:56,527 --> 00:34:58,862 Day sight. It's something. 402 00:34:58,863 --> 00:35:00,197 Better than anything else we got. 403 00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:03,133 I need more fucking 240 here! 404 00:35:03,134 --> 00:35:05,435 One's by Karingal, the other's by Dallas. 405 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:13,510 Right up there. 406 00:35:19,750 --> 00:35:21,084 The birds we love. 407 00:35:26,023 --> 00:35:29,526 Okay, roger, he's pretty much worked the Honcho Hill ridge. 408 00:35:29,527 --> 00:35:34,698 Want to push him southeast up to 3-0, just southeast of that. 409 00:35:41,205 --> 00:35:43,406 Big firefight, great. 410 00:35:43,407 --> 00:35:47,244 Fucking packing up rounds. That was fun, though, man, that was fun. 411 00:35:48,279 --> 00:35:50,280 You can't get a better high. 412 00:35:50,281 --> 00:35:51,915 It's like crack, you know? 413 00:35:51,916 --> 00:35:54,784 You can sky dive or bungee jump or do, you know, kayak, 414 00:35:54,785 --> 00:35:57,854 but once you've been shot at, you really can't come down. 415 00:35:57,855 --> 00:35:59,456 There's nothing, you can't top that. 416 00:35:59,457 --> 00:36:01,324 How are you going to go back to the civilian world then? 417 00:36:01,325 --> 00:36:02,993 I have no idea. 418 00:36:05,229 --> 00:36:06,696 Hey, did you hear me go cyclic? 419 00:36:06,697 --> 00:36:08,832 - I had the barrel smoked! - Did you hear me? 420 00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:11,635 Yeah, what the fuck was that first batch about, cuz? 421 00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:13,236 You was crazy as shit with that. 422 00:36:13,237 --> 00:36:17,240 Hey, soon as I popped my head up, holy... Guess who. 423 00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:19,509 And you just slid down the stairs. 424 00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,878 - Common game planning. I was like... - Get down! 425 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:43,934 The flight path over... 426 00:36:52,143 --> 00:36:53,643 He's an excellent cook, 427 00:36:53,644 --> 00:36:56,880 by far the best cook in the Korengal, definitely. 428 00:36:56,881 --> 00:36:58,582 Came up to Restrepo one time, 429 00:36:58,583 --> 00:37:03,086 cooked us fresh cow, same-day cow. 430 00:37:03,087 --> 00:37:04,087 That was a good day. 431 00:37:11,862 --> 00:37:15,298 Jonesie, you want another grill, man? You all right? 432 00:37:15,299 --> 00:37:17,667 No, I don't like to fuck on a full stomach. 433 00:37:21,439 --> 00:37:23,807 Dude, we're on TV. 434 00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:28,311 Come in here for the real thing. 435 00:37:28,312 --> 00:37:30,680 Don't fight it, don't fight it. 436 00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:50,200 Why don't they mess with you anymore, man? 437 00:37:50,201 --> 00:37:53,870 I was one of the first ones that got messed with to begin with. 438 00:37:53,871 --> 00:37:56,072 Well, look at him, look how sexy he is. I mean, look at this guy. 439 00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:58,475 He's a beautiful man. I'd fuck him back in the States. 440 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:29,639 Let's talk about the road between Omar and Kandalay. 441 00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:38,882 What guy? 442 00:38:40,284 --> 00:38:42,085 Who did we detain? 443 00:38:42,086 --> 00:38:45,021 He says that you detain a guy. 444 00:38:45,022 --> 00:38:47,757 Haji Se, Haji Se. 445 00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:50,994 Naiim was dropped off 446 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:55,065 by another local in Kalaygal 447 00:38:55,066 --> 00:38:56,866 who told us that he was bad 448 00:38:56,867 --> 00:39:00,503 and that he was working with Sadikula 449 00:39:00,504 --> 00:39:02,672 in the... 450 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:06,509 What the fuck is Sadikula in charge of, Rudy, the Mujahadeen? 451 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:08,144 Yeah, he's working with the Muj. 452 00:39:08,145 --> 00:39:10,580 And, he was working with the Mujahadeen. 453 00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:13,717 I told you guys from the very get go 454 00:39:13,718 --> 00:39:16,720 that if somebody says that they're bad, I have to investigate it. 455 00:39:16,721 --> 00:39:19,989 So now NDS is talking to him. He's not in jail. 456 00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:22,158 He's not being treated bad, 457 00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:24,794 he's being talked to and asked questions. 458 00:39:24,795 --> 00:39:28,031 I think we've been pretty upfront about how we handle people 459 00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:29,933 that we talk to and question. 460 00:39:29,934 --> 00:39:31,534 We've been pretty fair. 461 00:39:31,535 --> 00:39:34,437 I'm not like Jim McKnight where I take all these guys 462 00:39:34,438 --> 00:39:37,207 and stick them in Bagram and they never come back. 463 00:39:43,514 --> 00:39:46,916 He says were happy you're here, you're doing very well, 464 00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:49,085 but he's saying that you detained Mohammed Youssef before, 465 00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:52,389 now Mohammed Youssef didn't come back. 466 00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:54,491 Rudy, who the fuck is Mohammed Youssef? 467 00:39:54,492 --> 00:39:57,694 Mohammed Kalam's son, the guy that cut the worker's heads off. 468 00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:00,897 That's because I saw the video where he cut their heads off. 469 00:40:05,269 --> 00:40:06,870 I saw him do it. 470 00:40:09,373 --> 00:40:11,474 I saw him with my own two eyes. 471 00:40:17,148 --> 00:40:19,616 You're not understanding that I don't fucking care. 472 00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:24,554 And the thing that's sad to me is that as much as Captain Kearney go down there 473 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:26,656 and conduct different Shuras 474 00:40:26,657 --> 00:40:30,226 and tell them about the positives about what we can do to help them, 475 00:40:30,227 --> 00:40:32,028 it seemed like it didn't go anywhere. 476 00:40:32,029 --> 00:40:34,664 You know? It seemed like everything that he- 477 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:35,932 We took one step forward 478 00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:37,801 and it seemed like they took two steps backwards. 479 00:40:57,154 --> 00:41:00,190 We've got three village elders just come down and they want to talk. 480 00:41:00,191 --> 00:41:03,293 Not sure what they want to talk about yet. 481 00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:04,761 It's a good sign. 482 00:41:04,762 --> 00:41:07,030 It's the first time it's happened up here at OP Restrepo. 483 00:41:07,031 --> 00:41:08,231 We've had people come in... 484 00:41:08,232 --> 00:41:11,634 Elders come in and say before that they wanted to provide some information, 485 00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:14,003 but never shown up to us, you know, come back and talk to us. 486 00:41:14,004 --> 00:41:17,006 So this is a positive sign. 487 00:41:17,007 --> 00:41:19,108 Do you hear about the cow that... 488 00:41:19,109 --> 00:41:21,878 - The cow? - Yeah, the US soldiers kill it. 489 00:41:21,879 --> 00:41:23,513 - They killed... - Yeah. 490 00:41:23,514 --> 00:41:25,648 So they came because of that. 491 00:41:25,649 --> 00:41:29,385 They want to get information about the cow that... 492 00:41:29,386 --> 00:41:30,887 He is the owner of cow. 493 00:41:30,888 --> 00:41:34,190 All right, the cow? The reason why we killed it 494 00:41:34,191 --> 00:41:36,926 because it ran into our concertina wire 495 00:41:36,927 --> 00:41:41,030 and it was mangled inside the concertina wire, 496 00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:43,566 so we had to kill it to put it out of its misery 497 00:41:43,567 --> 00:41:46,769 because if we would have got it out, it would have been useless. 498 00:41:46,770 --> 00:41:50,206 - That's why we killed it. - They are asking because it was illegal. 499 00:41:50,207 --> 00:41:52,275 - Illegal? - Yeah, illegal. 500 00:41:52,276 --> 00:41:54,344 - To kill it? - Yeah. 501 00:41:58,015 --> 00:42:00,383 - What do you want to do? - Just tell them. 502 00:42:00,384 --> 00:42:02,318 What do they want us to do about the cow? 503 00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:14,898 Do they want to be reimbursed somehow or... 504 00:42:14,899 --> 00:42:19,135 He says that it is up to you, if you want to pay money for that or... 505 00:42:19,136 --> 00:42:22,105 How much does a cow cost? 506 00:42:22,106 --> 00:42:24,274 It's going to be like four or five hundred dollars, 507 00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:28,211 which is going to be twenty, twenty-five thousand Afghani, over. 508 00:42:30,347 --> 00:42:31,814 Did we kill this cow? 509 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:37,020 Well, it was tangled up in a wire, pretty much dead. 510 00:42:37,021 --> 00:42:39,956 324 ended up cutting it up. Over. 511 00:42:48,165 --> 00:42:51,234 We're not going to be able to give him money in exchange for his cow. 512 00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:55,772 But what we can give him is the rice, the beans, the sugar. 513 00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:04,314 Now, the HA that they will receive 514 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:07,517 is going to be, you know, the weight of the cow. 515 00:43:07,518 --> 00:43:09,485 Whatever the weight of the cow was 516 00:43:09,486 --> 00:43:14,223 will be the weight of return of HA as far as rice, beans, sugar. 517 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:29,138 - Is that good? - They want money. 518 00:43:29,139 --> 00:43:33,276 We're not going to be able to give them the money. 519 00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:36,112 If that's all he came for, he's not going to get it. 520 00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:46,489 626 perstat, I have 20 at Restrepo, 521 00:43:46,490 --> 00:43:48,992 15 at the KOP, 4 at OP1, 522 00:43:48,993 --> 00:43:50,293 4 on leave, 523 00:43:50,294 --> 00:43:51,995 6 ANA and one terp 524 00:43:51,996 --> 00:43:54,230 at Restrepo, break. 525 00:43:54,231 --> 00:43:57,000 Talk louder, nobody can hear you down here, over. 526 00:43:58,068 --> 00:44:00,503 626 perstat, 527 00:44:00,504 --> 00:44:02,305 I have 20 at Restrepo, 528 00:44:02,306 --> 00:44:03,806 15 at the KOP, 529 00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:05,241 4 at OP1, 530 00:44:05,242 --> 00:44:06,209 4 on leave, 531 00:44:06,210 --> 00:44:07,577 1 photojournalist, 532 00:44:07,578 --> 00:44:08,745 6 ANA, and 1 terp... 533 00:44:08,746 --> 00:44:10,246 I didn't know they had algebra two. 534 00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:18,054 Yeah! Burning the poop! 535 00:44:18,055 --> 00:44:20,423 Got the black man on the burning the poop detail. 536 00:44:20,424 --> 00:44:24,160 Hey, man, just watch yourself, God damn it. 537 00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:28,431 Second platoon killed that cow and now I gotta pay for it. 538 00:44:28,432 --> 00:44:30,967 I still wanna see Spanky and Vaughn go at it. 539 00:44:30,968 --> 00:44:35,371 - Vaughn would fucking destroy Spanky. - Let's go get him. 540 00:44:35,372 --> 00:44:36,539 Vaughn! 541 00:44:39,243 --> 00:44:41,678 Vaughn, you're going to beat Spanky's ass! 542 00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:43,579 He's coming up here, you better not lose. 543 00:44:43,580 --> 00:44:45,281 Dude, if you lose, so help me God. 544 00:44:45,282 --> 00:44:47,717 It's going to reflect poorly on me if you lose. 545 00:44:47,718 --> 00:44:49,919 You better not let that cherry bitch beat you. 546 00:44:51,121 --> 00:44:54,057 Make him tough. Get him, get him. 547 00:44:54,058 --> 00:44:55,992 - Vaughn. - What's up, dude? 548 00:44:59,063 --> 00:45:02,999 - Come on, fight back! - You're such a little bitch. 549 00:45:07,304 --> 00:45:09,072 All right, go ahead. 550 00:45:09,073 --> 00:45:11,507 - Stretch them out. - What the fuck, Spanky? 551 00:45:11,508 --> 00:45:14,143 You gonna let him fucking manhandle you? 552 00:45:14,144 --> 00:45:16,946 - Let him get tired. - Flip over, man. 553 00:45:19,316 --> 00:45:20,717 Yeah, there you go! 554 00:45:24,221 --> 00:45:25,488 Nice, there you go. 555 00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:26,756 You suck! 556 00:45:28,792 --> 00:45:31,794 Battle of the cherries. 557 00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:33,196 We're not talking about cherry in the army either, 558 00:45:33,197 --> 00:45:34,497 we're talking about cherry at life. 559 00:45:34,498 --> 00:45:36,966 Vaughn here is very cherry at life. 560 00:45:36,967 --> 00:45:39,635 But we're making him into a man. 561 00:45:39,636 --> 00:45:41,738 That's all that's important here. 562 00:45:45,676 --> 00:45:47,944 ...we talked about the road being built. 563 00:45:47,945 --> 00:45:50,513 Continued to hear from the elders 564 00:45:50,514 --> 00:45:53,616 that they don't want to give up any workers, 565 00:45:53,617 --> 00:45:56,686 despite what it is that you all have been telling me. 566 00:45:56,687 --> 00:46:01,657 So if you guys get these local... That are willing to do that 567 00:46:01,658 --> 00:46:04,093 to come and start getting them jobs immediately, 568 00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:06,629 to bypass all the elder... 569 00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:09,532 I don't think... I think they're just... 570 00:46:09,533 --> 00:46:13,002 If we really fucked them up like they said, 571 00:46:13,003 --> 00:46:15,738 then they are just chilling, trying to recuperate. 572 00:46:15,739 --> 00:46:17,940 It's just like what we would be doing. 573 00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:21,144 You know, seven... Eight dudes wounded, 574 00:46:21,145 --> 00:46:23,980 I mean seven dudes wounded, one dude dead, 575 00:46:23,981 --> 00:46:27,183 we wouldn't be going out strong. 576 00:46:27,184 --> 00:46:30,319 We'd be resting at Blessing right now. 577 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,021 You know what I mean? 578 00:46:32,022 --> 00:46:36,726 That's what I think they're doing... resting. 579 00:46:36,727 --> 00:46:38,528 Are you wondering why it is so quiet? 580 00:46:38,529 --> 00:46:40,730 Yeah, it's got me baffled right now. 581 00:46:40,731 --> 00:46:42,265 Baffled or worried? 582 00:46:42,266 --> 00:46:44,700 Just confused. I am at a loss for words right now. 583 00:46:44,701 --> 00:46:46,536 He's worried. 584 00:46:46,537 --> 00:46:48,104 He's worried. He's scared. 585 00:46:53,210 --> 00:46:54,911 Most scared. 586 00:46:54,912 --> 00:46:56,379 Or worried. Whatever. 587 00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:58,014 Yeah. 588 00:46:58,015 --> 00:47:00,283 I'd have to say Rock Avalanche. 589 00:47:00,284 --> 00:47:02,685 If I had to pick a moment, 590 00:47:02,686 --> 00:47:04,053 I'd probably say Rock Avalanche. 591 00:47:04,054 --> 00:47:08,958 Operation Rock Avalanche was the low point for me personally. 592 00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:10,827 I saw a lot of professional tough guys 593 00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:12,662 get weak in the knees. 594 00:47:14,631 --> 00:47:17,900 I'll go ahead and orient you guys to the different LZs that are out there. 595 00:47:17,901 --> 00:47:21,370 Up on Divpat where the C2 element will be located is LZ Cubs. 596 00:47:21,371 --> 00:47:23,906 The Taliban or the AAF forces in the valley, 597 00:47:23,907 --> 00:47:26,609 they got very, very audacious 598 00:47:26,610 --> 00:47:30,479 and tenacious during Rock Avalanche. 599 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,283 Physically putting their hands on soldiers, 600 00:47:34,284 --> 00:47:37,386 able to get so close to us that they can kill my soldiers, 601 00:47:37,387 --> 00:47:39,889 steal the equipment, and still get away. 602 00:47:39,890 --> 00:47:42,992 I mean... 603 00:47:42,993 --> 00:47:44,827 that's ballsy. 604 00:47:44,828 --> 00:47:48,965 We'll be releasing with Wildcat One, 605 00:47:48,966 --> 00:47:50,433 somewhere between Busch and Coors. 606 00:47:50,434 --> 00:47:52,301 Moving in on Rock Avalanche 607 00:47:52,302 --> 00:47:57,139 with going into areas like Yaka China or up on the top of the Talisar. 608 00:47:57,140 --> 00:48:00,476 Those are areas we haven't previously been, 609 00:48:00,477 --> 00:48:02,311 you know, during the deployment. 610 00:48:02,312 --> 00:48:05,147 North goes that way toward Sergeant Rougle, 611 00:48:05,148 --> 00:48:07,850 south is this way towards me and the First Sergeant. 612 00:48:07,851 --> 00:48:10,786 To go in there not ever having laid eyes on the area, 613 00:48:10,787 --> 00:48:15,291 hearing the stories about guys who'd gone prior to us 614 00:48:15,292 --> 00:48:17,226 getting fucked up down, you know, 615 00:48:17,227 --> 00:48:19,328 in areas where they literally shouldn't have been in. 616 00:48:19,329 --> 00:48:24,400 We're going to be moving out of HLZ Cubs into HLZ Polk. 617 00:48:24,401 --> 00:48:26,736 In Rock Avalanche we knew the expectation that we was going 618 00:48:26,737 --> 00:48:28,070 to get engaged going up there, 619 00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:30,106 but we all knew that. 620 00:48:30,107 --> 00:48:33,609 In the location where we was actually going to conducting this operation and stuff, 621 00:48:33,610 --> 00:48:36,145 was where the bad guys, their safe haven was at. 622 00:48:36,146 --> 00:48:37,947 They wasn't coming to you. 623 00:48:37,948 --> 00:48:40,416 Sometimes you had to go out there and reach out to them. 624 00:48:48,959 --> 00:48:52,295 Go into program, go into your radio configurations, 625 00:48:52,296 --> 00:48:55,665 and then where it says SINCGARS or basic, 626 00:48:55,666 --> 00:48:58,668 change that to ANDVT. 627 00:49:00,070 --> 00:49:02,738 - Coming after you, motherfucker. - Right here, bitch? 628 00:49:02,739 --> 00:49:07,176 Let's do this, motherfucker! I'm coming back. 629 00:49:07,177 --> 00:49:08,577 I'm coming back, don't worry. 630 00:49:08,578 --> 00:49:11,113 Do you get nervous before something like this? 631 00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:15,718 I get nervous for the guys. I get nervous for myself. 632 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,188 I mean, I just... I just called my mom and dad 633 00:49:19,189 --> 00:49:21,290 and I'll try calling my wife before I take off, 634 00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:23,893 just one last "I love you" to all of them. 635 00:49:23,894 --> 00:49:27,530 And, you know, the guys, that's the hardest thing is like, 636 00:49:27,531 --> 00:49:29,332 you know, if something happens to me, 637 00:49:29,333 --> 00:49:31,934 there's not much I can do about it or anything like that. 638 00:49:31,935 --> 00:49:35,805 But it takes a little bit out of you 639 00:49:35,806 --> 00:49:39,542 every time you see one of your boys get hurt or you lose one of them. 640 00:49:39,543 --> 00:49:41,410 It's really like a big family. 641 00:49:57,794 --> 00:50:00,396 We flew in the middle of the night. 642 00:50:00,397 --> 00:50:04,934 Guess what, they're not quiet helicopters that we fly. 643 00:50:04,935 --> 00:50:06,335 The enemy's awake now. 644 00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:08,604 What the fuck are the Americans doing flying over us right now? 645 00:50:10,941 --> 00:50:13,009 So now everybody's on their radio's, I'm sure, 646 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,511 you know, "Hey, the Americans are heading this way." 647 00:50:15,512 --> 00:50:18,347 So we got on the ground and we were already being told, 648 00:50:18,348 --> 00:50:21,283 be on alert, you know, everybody knows we're here. 649 00:51:25,482 --> 00:51:29,151 If we could get one going from west to east into that draw, over. 650 00:51:34,691 --> 00:51:35,724 It's real hot. 651 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,894 - All right, break. - Coming out. 652 00:51:38,895 --> 00:51:42,131 I'd like you to come in for one more re-attack. 653 00:51:42,132 --> 00:51:47,436 Come down in elevation in that draw and fill right there in the center, over. 654 00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:52,875 So you did hit the target. 655 00:51:56,646 --> 00:51:58,247 This house right there. 656 00:52:13,930 --> 00:52:17,333 This is the aftermath of what AH-64s do. 657 00:52:17,334 --> 00:52:19,902 Good old attack helicopters. 658 00:53:33,710 --> 00:53:36,912 He said that there is five guys already dead 659 00:53:36,913 --> 00:53:42,785 and ten of the females and kids already, they are injured, you know. 660 00:53:42,786 --> 00:53:46,021 Show me which of them is the Taliban. 661 00:53:46,022 --> 00:53:47,356 There is no Taliban. 662 00:53:54,130 --> 00:53:56,198 Damn it. 663 00:53:56,199 --> 00:53:57,933 You know? I need to know better. 664 00:53:57,934 --> 00:53:59,668 I need to figure this stuff out better 665 00:53:59,669 --> 00:54:01,437 so that I can do this, 666 00:54:01,438 --> 00:54:03,772 so that I'm not killing these people and not making them mad. 667 00:54:03,773 --> 00:54:06,242 I mean, first impressions are the lasting impression. 668 00:54:06,243 --> 00:54:09,245 That's the first time anybody's been in Yaka China, and what do I do? 669 00:54:09,246 --> 00:54:13,449 I kill a bunch of bad guys, 670 00:54:13,450 --> 00:54:16,619 but in the same instance, 671 00:54:16,620 --> 00:54:19,221 I'm killing five locals 672 00:54:19,222 --> 00:54:22,391 that may not have been the ones that pulled the trigger, 673 00:54:22,392 --> 00:54:25,127 but in some way shape or form, were connected to them. 674 00:54:29,566 --> 00:54:30,566 There you go. 675 00:54:48,718 --> 00:54:50,085 Dishka? 676 00:54:53,056 --> 00:54:56,358 Afghan dishka, not American dishka, right? 677 00:55:00,096 --> 00:55:02,131 This is divorce paper. 678 00:55:02,132 --> 00:55:03,799 - What? - Divorce paper. 679 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,234 - Di-wars? - Paper, yeah. 680 00:55:05,235 --> 00:55:06,869 - What does that mean? - Divorce. 681 00:55:06,870 --> 00:55:10,172 Like some woman you getting married then you're going to get a divorce. 682 00:55:10,173 --> 00:55:11,807 - Divorce papers? - Yeah. 683 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:12,975 Okay. 684 00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:15,978 Who owns the house? 685 00:55:21,785 --> 00:55:23,552 Did you ask him where the pistol was? 686 00:55:26,723 --> 00:55:30,726 Eight RPG heads. One, two, three, four boosters. 687 00:55:30,727 --> 00:55:34,096 Got four boosters, three batteries, shotgun. 688 00:55:57,454 --> 00:55:59,221 This is Colonel Ostlund, he's my boss, 689 00:55:59,222 --> 00:56:00,889 you know, the one I always tell you. 690 00:56:04,994 --> 00:56:07,830 We brought the Colonel down there to talk to them, 691 00:56:07,831 --> 00:56:11,500 and we did that because basically we felt bad 692 00:56:11,501 --> 00:56:13,936 for the fact that we injured some of their kids 693 00:56:13,937 --> 00:56:16,405 and that we killed some of the locals. 694 00:56:16,406 --> 00:56:20,109 The ACM that comes in and gives you five dollars 695 00:56:20,110 --> 00:56:21,910 to carry this stuff around the mountains 696 00:56:21,911 --> 00:56:24,113 and tells you that you're doing a jihad 697 00:56:24,114 --> 00:56:25,948 and go fight the Americans 698 00:56:25,949 --> 00:56:27,850 is doing nothing for you 699 00:56:27,851 --> 00:56:30,252 except making you a slave for five dollars 700 00:56:30,253 --> 00:56:32,121 as he hides on a mountain, 701 00:56:32,122 --> 00:56:34,256 because he won't fight my soldiers. 702 00:56:34,257 --> 00:56:36,091 These foreigners, they don't fight my soldiers. 703 00:56:36,092 --> 00:56:38,127 They hide on a mountain in a cave, 704 00:56:38,128 --> 00:56:40,462 under a rock and talk on a radio 705 00:56:40,463 --> 00:56:43,932 and pay your sons a small amount of money 706 00:56:43,933 --> 00:56:46,602 to go ahead and shoot at my soldiers 707 00:56:46,603 --> 00:56:48,771 and my soldiers end up killing your sons. 708 00:56:58,014 --> 00:56:59,715 But this is the deal we'll make. 709 00:56:59,716 --> 00:57:01,383 Everybody needs a job, 710 00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:04,253 and we're going to try to bring progress here and some jobs, 711 00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:07,389 and Captain Kearney will talk to the Shura on Friday 712 00:57:07,390 --> 00:57:09,324 about some job projects. 713 00:57:15,565 --> 00:57:17,466 The whole time we were there, we were thinking, "Okay. 714 00:57:17,467 --> 00:57:19,101 When's it coming? When's it coming. 715 00:57:19,102 --> 00:57:21,036 They're going to hit us. When's it going to happen? 716 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:46,662 - This sucks, dude. - I'm just going to double check it. 717 00:57:46,663 --> 00:57:49,164 ICOM chatter right now coming out of Chappadara, 718 00:57:49,165 --> 00:57:51,834 a guy named Obed's talking to the elders, 719 00:57:51,835 --> 00:57:56,872 and apparently said that the elders are in charge of what's going on. 720 00:57:56,873 --> 00:57:59,741 The elders basically want jihad down here in the Korengal, 721 00:57:59,742 --> 00:58:02,311 and whatever they want, they'll... They're here to assist, 722 00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:04,546 so we'll see what happens. 723 00:58:04,547 --> 00:58:06,381 But it doesn't sound very good for us, huh? 724 00:58:35,678 --> 00:58:37,179 Hey, Sergeant Patterson, 725 00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:39,414 I found four fighting positions over there, AK-47s. 726 00:58:39,415 --> 00:58:41,116 I'm going to push to this next hilltop. 727 00:58:41,117 --> 00:58:44,253 I'm also getting ICOM traffic that there may be enemy close to us. 728 00:58:48,491 --> 00:58:52,728 Getting intel saying that they've got eyes on three to four US personnel 729 00:58:52,729 --> 00:58:54,596 and they're getting close to them. 730 00:59:01,237 --> 00:59:03,605 So they've got eyes on us and it can be anywhere, 731 00:59:03,606 --> 00:59:05,207 this high ground there, 732 00:59:05,208 --> 00:59:06,875 there's some more spurs back there, 733 00:59:06,876 --> 00:59:09,611 there's one we crossed to an open patch back there. 734 00:59:09,612 --> 00:59:12,414 They could have easily had eyes on us when we were moving in. 735 00:59:20,657 --> 00:59:22,691 What the fuck was that? 736 00:59:24,894 --> 00:59:26,194 Did you hear that? 737 00:59:26,195 --> 00:59:27,796 It might be the birds, sir. 738 00:59:27,797 --> 00:59:28,997 Shooting? 739 00:59:33,202 --> 00:59:34,903 Am I just jumpy? 740 00:59:37,774 --> 00:59:41,076 Fucking Christ, monitor this. 741 00:59:59,896 --> 01:00:02,898 Sergeant P... 742 01:00:02,899 --> 01:00:05,000 do we got guys in these pine trees right here? 743 01:00:06,135 --> 01:00:07,369 Do we? 744 01:00:25,421 --> 01:00:28,957 When the attack finally happened, 745 01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:31,860 I remember it was myself and my team 746 01:00:31,861 --> 01:00:35,130 on the southeastern corner 747 01:00:35,131 --> 01:00:38,000 of basically the area that we were covering. 748 01:00:38,001 --> 01:00:40,068 We got ambushed, like, 749 01:00:40,069 --> 01:00:43,872 just every single position got hit at the same time pretty much. 750 01:00:43,873 --> 01:00:47,409 They placed a PKM a machine gun down into our position 751 01:00:47,410 --> 01:00:49,711 and one orientated into the scout position, 752 01:00:49,712 --> 01:00:52,047 and just rained down hell. 753 01:00:52,048 --> 01:00:53,715 I just look over to my right 754 01:00:53,716 --> 01:00:56,151 and I see rounds breaking branches off the tree. 755 01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:59,254 They were shooting RPGs at us, 756 01:00:59,255 --> 01:01:01,056 they were shooting pretty much everything. 757 01:01:01,057 --> 01:01:03,692 When I got hit, it actually came 758 01:01:03,693 --> 01:01:06,695 with enough force that it rolled me forward. 759 01:01:06,696 --> 01:01:10,599 You know, initial thought was, "What happened?" 760 01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,268 I felt pain, you know, 761 01:01:13,269 --> 01:01:15,637 placed my hand there just underneath my IBA 762 01:01:15,638 --> 01:01:17,973 because that's where I felt, you know, the initial pain, 763 01:01:17,974 --> 01:01:21,743 pulled my hand out, saw blood, knew I was hit. 764 01:01:21,744 --> 01:01:24,179 I looked up in time from all fours 765 01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:28,083 to watch a guy come over the crest probably about 35-45 meters 766 01:01:28,084 --> 01:01:31,553 to fire an RPG directly at me. 767 01:01:31,554 --> 01:01:34,489 Initial thought was, "Wow, this is the last thing I'm going to see," 768 01:01:34,490 --> 01:01:36,491 because the guy was so close. 769 01:01:36,492 --> 01:01:40,896 And, you know, the round came in, exploded. 770 01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:44,066 Took shrapnel all throughout my body, but... 771 01:01:44,067 --> 01:01:46,768 kind of did... After the explosion, like, 772 01:01:46,769 --> 01:01:49,304 "I'm still here, I'm still alive," 773 01:01:49,305 --> 01:01:54,710 and then proceeded to basically roll down the mountain into the bushes. 774 01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:57,145 And they were all up in position, 775 01:01:57,146 --> 01:01:59,247 I could hear them talking to each other. 776 01:01:59,248 --> 01:02:03,885 To our north we heard somebody yelling for a medic. 777 01:02:03,886 --> 01:02:06,922 I was the first one that heard it. I yelled back to Sergeant Hoyt, 778 01:02:06,923 --> 01:02:09,624 telling him if I could go and see who it was. 779 01:02:09,625 --> 01:02:14,096 Myself along with Cortez started moving... 780 01:02:14,097 --> 01:02:16,465 We started bounding towards where we heard the guy yelling from. 781 01:02:16,466 --> 01:02:17,833 We didn't know who it was. 782 01:02:17,834 --> 01:02:19,534 I got to the wounded and found out it was Vandenberge. 783 01:02:19,535 --> 01:02:22,070 I yelled back it was Vandenberge that was wounded, bring a medic. 784 01:02:22,071 --> 01:02:23,672 He was just bleeding real bad. 785 01:02:23,673 --> 01:02:26,875 His whole left side of his body was this real dark red color. 786 01:02:26,876 --> 01:02:29,578 And all he kept on saying was, "Hey, help me, guys. Help me." 787 01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:30,879 Just rocking back and forth. 788 01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,649 Saying "I'm bleeding out, you gotta save me. I'm dying." 789 01:02:34,650 --> 01:02:36,918 Just stuff like that. 790 01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:38,854 Started handing him gauze, tourniquet. 791 01:02:38,855 --> 01:02:41,389 Just started packing the wound with gauze. 792 01:02:41,390 --> 01:02:43,425 I had my finger knuckle-deep in his arm. 793 01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:45,060 Ended up stopping the bleeding. 794 01:02:45,061 --> 01:02:47,262 I'm asking, "Where are the guys at? 795 01:02:47,263 --> 01:02:49,531 Where's the Taliban at? Where's the enemy at?" 796 01:02:49,532 --> 01:02:53,635 Last time he saw them, they were 20 feet away. 797 01:02:55,605 --> 01:02:57,939 And just was I was going to give him an IV, 798 01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:00,175 Sergeant Stichter and Doc Old got there 799 01:03:00,176 --> 01:03:01,977 and carried on from there. 800 01:03:01,978 --> 01:03:05,747 Sergeant Patterson and all of them took over, and I pushed out with Cortez. 801 01:03:05,748 --> 01:03:07,282 We didn't bound, we didn't do anything, 802 01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:08,750 we just ran in a straight line 803 01:03:08,751 --> 01:03:12,420 and got to Rice as quick as we can. 804 01:03:12,421 --> 01:03:15,323 At that point I kind of realized, "Hey, I'm stable. 805 01:03:15,324 --> 01:03:17,292 "You know, I been here ten, fifteen minutes. 806 01:03:17,293 --> 01:03:20,729 I'm still breathing, I'm not going into shock." 807 01:03:20,730 --> 01:03:22,831 Kind of evaluating myself. 808 01:03:22,832 --> 01:03:25,167 So basically just gave them orders to... 809 01:03:25,168 --> 01:03:26,935 "Hey, you need to maneuver your guys. 810 01:03:26,936 --> 01:03:30,472 And push up and clear across that hilltop." 811 01:03:30,473 --> 01:03:32,440 As I went up, I didn't see anyone there. 812 01:03:32,441 --> 01:03:34,409 I took a knee and set up security, 813 01:03:34,410 --> 01:03:35,944 and when I turned to my right, 814 01:03:35,945 --> 01:03:37,579 I saw Sergeant Rougle just laying there. 815 01:03:37,580 --> 01:03:39,714 I ran up and I saw Sergeant Rougle's body 816 01:03:39,715 --> 01:03:42,250 and it didn't even click. 817 01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:43,885 I ran past him. 818 01:03:43,886 --> 01:03:48,723 I saw his face, how it was, kind of messed up. 819 01:03:48,724 --> 01:03:52,761 I wanted to cry, but didn't. 820 01:03:54,530 --> 01:03:56,231 I was shocked, honestly. 821 01:03:56,232 --> 01:04:02,070 I was shocked because I saw Sergeant Rougle just laying there. 822 01:04:02,071 --> 01:04:06,441 It was... It was chaos. 823 01:04:07,577 --> 01:04:09,978 And when we finally had a second 824 01:04:09,979 --> 01:04:12,714 to stop and think, 825 01:04:12,715 --> 01:04:15,016 that's when I realized that 826 01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:18,353 one of my good friends had gone, you know, 827 01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:21,423 and I started hearing about Sergeant Rice, Vandenberge. 828 01:04:21,424 --> 01:04:24,359 I didn't even know that they had been hit at that point. 829 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:25,727 And... 830 01:04:37,173 --> 01:04:38,406 I need a... 831 01:04:38,407 --> 01:04:40,075 Yeah, time out. Hold on. 832 01:04:45,114 --> 01:04:47,315 I'm just trying to keep my train of thought. 833 01:05:07,470 --> 01:05:10,038 Have that box ready. Have the next goddamn box ready. 834 01:05:10,039 --> 01:05:12,207 Hey, I need immediate suppression on 2251. 835 01:05:12,208 --> 01:05:13,975 They enemy's pushed up on the high ground... 836 01:05:17,346 --> 01:05:18,947 We're not getting shit. 837 01:05:23,819 --> 01:05:26,187 512255, if we've got A-10s, 838 01:05:26,188 --> 01:05:31,459 I want gun runs from east to west coming in, okay? 839 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:33,828 The hill's been taken over by the enemy. 840 01:05:33,829 --> 01:05:34,963 That hill right here? 841 01:05:34,964 --> 01:05:36,331 Wildcat's hill. 842 01:05:36,332 --> 01:05:39,034 All right, we're going to go around to the east and go around. 843 01:05:43,072 --> 01:05:45,573 Hey, Abdul! Get the fuck over here! 844 01:05:45,574 --> 01:05:49,344 Tell these guys we're pushing up on this fucking ridge. 845 01:05:49,345 --> 01:05:51,646 Hey, he wants us to go up over this hill and bum rush it. 846 01:05:51,647 --> 01:05:53,081 There's fucking dudes right there. 847 01:05:53,082 --> 01:05:55,450 If we do that, we're going to have to fucking lay down some... 848 01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,285 We're going to have to lay down fire first. 849 01:05:57,286 --> 01:05:59,421 - Yeah, but we... - We can't get a hold of them. 850 01:05:59,422 --> 01:06:00,722 We don't know where they're at. 851 01:06:00,723 --> 01:06:02,624 That's why we have to lay down fire first. 852 01:06:17,406 --> 01:06:19,641 Look, they took fire from right over here. 853 01:06:19,642 --> 01:06:21,509 Okay? 854 01:06:21,510 --> 01:06:24,045 Hey, who's down? 855 01:06:24,046 --> 01:06:26,147 We got Sergeant Rougle and them up? 856 01:06:26,148 --> 01:06:28,149 Hey. 857 01:06:28,150 --> 01:06:29,217 What? 858 01:06:33,956 --> 01:06:35,056 Where they at? 859 01:06:37,827 --> 01:06:39,327 Just keep down. 860 01:06:39,328 --> 01:06:41,029 - Get down. - What? 861 01:06:42,264 --> 01:06:44,199 - What's going on? - Just chill out, dude. 862 01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,002 - Chill the fuck out. - Who's over there? 863 01:06:47,003 --> 01:06:48,303 Oh, my God. 864 01:06:51,207 --> 01:06:52,273 Shut up. 865 01:06:54,243 --> 01:06:55,944 Move, man. 866 01:06:55,945 --> 01:06:57,946 Is Sergeant Rice still alive? 867 01:06:57,947 --> 01:06:59,681 - He's alive? - He's going to make it. 868 01:07:03,719 --> 01:07:05,920 - There's nothing we could do. - Where's everybody else? 869 01:07:05,921 --> 01:07:09,090 Hey, we've got friendlies here and friendlies to your six, right there. 870 01:07:09,091 --> 01:07:10,859 Vandenberge all right? 871 01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:13,695 Vandenberge's already... He's stable right now. 872 01:07:15,564 --> 01:07:16,931 That ain't Sergeant Rougle. 873 01:07:18,134 --> 01:07:19,968 You're lying, right, man? 874 01:07:19,969 --> 01:07:23,471 Why would I lie about something like that? 875 01:07:23,472 --> 01:07:25,507 Where'd he get hit? I got to see. 876 01:07:25,508 --> 01:07:27,375 Don't look at him. Is it bad? 877 01:07:27,376 --> 01:07:28,877 Tell me, dude. Tell me, dude. 878 01:07:28,878 --> 01:07:30,779 It was quick. It was quick. 879 01:07:34,016 --> 01:07:35,417 There was nothing we could do, bro! 880 01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:46,728 Where the bad guys at? 881 01:07:46,729 --> 01:07:48,430 Battle Six Romeo, this is two-six. 882 01:07:48,431 --> 01:07:52,300 I've pushed to the site of the KIA, break. 883 01:07:54,170 --> 01:07:55,937 Right now we have the hilltop. 884 01:07:55,938 --> 01:07:58,239 It's in the same vicinity as my last grid. 885 01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,108 Right now we're going to move the wounded in action... 886 01:08:00,109 --> 01:08:02,610 There's two of them... Back to LZ Eagles. 887 01:08:02,611 --> 01:08:07,315 When Captain Kearney told me up by the LZ 888 01:08:07,316 --> 01:08:11,019 that Staff Sergeant Rougle was killed, 889 01:08:11,020 --> 01:08:14,289 it was gut wrenching. 890 01:08:17,626 --> 01:08:20,295 You know, there's different levels to quality of fighters. 891 01:08:20,296 --> 01:08:26,000 He was one of the best, if not the best. 892 01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:29,938 And I think that was what was tough for a lot of people was, 893 01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:31,973 you know, kind of knowing that in the back of their mind, 894 01:08:31,974 --> 01:08:35,143 well, if the best guy we have out here just got killed, 895 01:08:35,144 --> 01:08:36,578 where's that put me? 896 01:08:36,579 --> 01:08:38,847 What's going to happen to me? 897 01:08:38,848 --> 01:08:42,350 What's going to happen to the guy to my left, to my right? 898 01:08:49,358 --> 01:08:52,227 Hey, we're going down here to get the wounded first. 899 01:09:03,005 --> 01:09:05,206 - Hey, let's go. - Let's go. 900 01:09:05,207 --> 01:09:06,774 It was a coordinated attack. 901 01:09:06,775 --> 01:09:09,644 They drew all our attention over to there from here. 902 01:09:09,645 --> 01:09:12,780 These guys over here also returning fire from there. 903 01:09:12,781 --> 01:09:14,482 They fucking flanked them. 904 01:09:14,483 --> 01:09:18,419 You can see where the path is here where the fuckers came up. 905 01:09:20,356 --> 01:09:22,790 Okay, where's this fucking compound? I want it destroyed. 906 01:09:22,791 --> 01:09:25,693 Let's go. 907 01:09:25,694 --> 01:09:27,962 - Stichter, destroy it now. - Yes, sir. 908 01:09:41,243 --> 01:09:44,879 After we go ahead and get the KIA out of here, 909 01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:49,551 I want gunmetal to search directly to my west. 910 01:09:49,552 --> 01:09:52,220 Hijar believes that he has a blood trail, 911 01:09:52,221 --> 01:09:54,689 I want them to be getting down low to try and PID 912 01:09:54,690 --> 01:09:56,224 and see where this guy's stopped. 913 01:09:56,225 --> 01:09:58,560 It's likely that where we find this son of a bitch 914 01:09:58,561 --> 01:10:00,295 is where we find everybody else. 915 01:10:02,464 --> 01:10:04,132 Hijar, make sure he understood that. 916 01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:32,527 Watch the pine trees. 917 01:10:32,528 --> 01:10:34,762 Just on the north side of that, you can see a house on the corner. 918 01:10:34,763 --> 01:10:36,497 As it cuts like that? 919 01:10:36,498 --> 01:10:37,899 It comes almost like an L shape. 920 01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:39,901 - See the terraces right there? - Got it. 921 01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:43,037 Okay, now, the fucking far southeast side, 922 01:10:43,038 --> 01:10:46,040 there's a fucking... there's a dude on the roof down in that house. 923 01:10:47,276 --> 01:10:51,246 - About a thousand meters. - Roger. 924 01:10:51,247 --> 01:10:54,716 Hey, Raeon's got a guy to our northwest 925 01:10:54,717 --> 01:10:58,720 on top of a building walking around, over. 926 01:10:58,721 --> 01:11:00,722 - Any other info? - No. 927 01:11:00,723 --> 01:11:02,523 He was looking up this way, 928 01:11:02,524 --> 01:11:04,025 and he just came off the roof, 929 01:11:04,026 --> 01:11:05,193 and he went back in his house. 930 01:11:05,194 --> 01:11:06,594 Roger, acknowledge. 931 01:11:06,595 --> 01:11:09,597 Raeon, next time you see that dude, take his head off. 932 01:11:13,502 --> 01:11:15,136 Where's that range finder at? 933 01:11:17,806 --> 01:11:19,574 He was a good dude, man. 934 01:11:19,575 --> 01:11:21,042 Sergeant Rougle? 935 01:11:23,145 --> 01:11:24,812 - You want a real cigarette? - Yeah. 936 01:11:28,083 --> 01:11:31,085 I'm worried about the rest of the guys. They've been taking it real bad. 937 01:11:32,421 --> 01:11:34,289 One Alpha's kind of blaming it on himself 938 01:11:34,290 --> 01:11:36,557 because we couldn't push over the top, 939 01:11:36,558 --> 01:11:38,726 but the thing he's got to understand is they fucking... 940 01:11:38,727 --> 01:11:40,428 He was dead instantly. 941 01:11:40,429 --> 01:11:42,063 There's nothing you can do right there. 942 01:12:02,851 --> 01:12:04,986 Actually, I can't even sleep, honestly. 943 01:12:04,987 --> 01:12:07,755 I've been on about four or five different types of sleeping pills 944 01:12:07,756 --> 01:12:09,057 and none of them help. 945 01:12:09,058 --> 01:12:11,092 That's how bad the nightmares are. 946 01:12:11,093 --> 01:12:13,628 I prefer not to sleep and not dream about it, 947 01:12:13,629 --> 01:12:16,030 than sleep and... 948 01:12:16,031 --> 01:12:18,566 just see the picture in my head is... 949 01:12:18,567 --> 01:12:19,634 pretty bad. 950 01:12:26,475 --> 01:12:29,811 That actually stuck with me for the rest of the deployment. 951 01:12:32,348 --> 01:12:36,284 Stuck with me through coming back here to Italy. 952 01:12:37,820 --> 01:12:40,488 I still obviously haven't... 953 01:12:40,489 --> 01:12:42,824 figured out how to deal with it inside. 954 01:12:47,763 --> 01:12:50,031 The only hope I have right now is that 955 01:12:50,032 --> 01:12:52,834 eventually I'll be able to process it differently. 956 01:12:52,835 --> 01:12:55,103 I'm never going to forget it. 957 01:12:55,104 --> 01:12:57,438 Never going to even let go of it. 958 01:12:58,774 --> 01:13:02,710 I don't want to not have that as a memory 959 01:13:02,711 --> 01:13:04,479 because that was one of the moments 960 01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:08,049 that makes me appreciate everything that I have. 961 01:15:05,334 --> 01:15:06,334 Steiner? 962 01:15:08,036 --> 01:15:09,470 Steiner, come on! 963 01:15:19,214 --> 01:15:21,148 Not yet. Not yet. 964 01:16:00,022 --> 01:16:01,889 Still working to try to bring about 965 01:16:01,890 --> 01:16:05,993 the Korengal to get the road moving here. 966 01:16:05,994 --> 01:16:08,129 Are you really drawing the Korengal Valley? 967 01:16:10,132 --> 01:16:12,099 It's the only thing I know how to draw. 968 01:16:17,673 --> 01:16:21,175 I just send it home in letters. 969 01:16:21,176 --> 01:16:22,610 Just draw. 970 01:16:46,501 --> 01:16:48,336 So do you have a songbook or something, 971 01:16:48,337 --> 01:16:51,639 or an exercise book to practice with? 972 01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:52,873 You just fuck around? 973 01:16:52,874 --> 01:16:54,108 Yeah I'm just fucking around. 974 01:16:54,109 --> 01:16:57,511 You need one of those books, with the charts on them. 975 01:16:57,512 --> 01:16:59,380 Yeah, I need... that would be nice. 976 01:16:59,381 --> 01:17:01,616 Restrepo was teaching me that stuff, 977 01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:05,686 but he... he taught me like a few, 978 01:17:05,687 --> 01:17:08,189 but I wrote just one, a C chord, 979 01:17:08,190 --> 01:17:11,792 but, you know, I don't know. 980 01:17:11,793 --> 01:17:14,495 I still have his... 981 01:17:14,496 --> 01:17:17,331 I actually still have one of his Flamenco books 982 01:17:17,332 --> 01:17:18,799 or whatever it is. 983 01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:20,868 How to play guitar flamenco, you know. 984 01:17:20,869 --> 01:17:24,205 He was amazing on guitar. 985 01:17:24,206 --> 01:17:26,841 - It was just beautiful music. - It was amazing. 986 01:17:26,842 --> 01:17:28,843 He used to grow his fingernails out real long, 987 01:17:28,844 --> 01:17:30,845 and put like nail hardener. 988 01:17:30,846 --> 01:17:33,214 So we always used to get on him about that. 989 01:17:33,215 --> 01:17:35,182 Yeah, but... with his teeth... 990 01:17:35,183 --> 01:17:36,617 "Yeah, but can... 991 01:17:36,618 --> 01:17:39,020 "Can you play the guitar like me, yo, son? 992 01:17:39,021 --> 01:17:40,354 Shun?" 993 01:18:02,611 --> 01:18:05,913 Twenty seven May, movement to contact west of Restrepo. 994 01:18:05,914 --> 01:18:09,717 Task disrupt, purpose prevent AAF from building mass fires on Restrepo. 995 01:18:09,718 --> 01:18:11,352 That concludes my report. Over. 996 01:18:15,390 --> 01:18:17,858 - How long till he gets tired? - Hump him, Walker. 997 01:18:17,859 --> 01:18:19,293 Ow, my hip. 998 01:18:21,196 --> 01:18:24,265 Is he squeezing you with his fucking mammoth legs? 999 01:18:28,036 --> 01:18:31,672 - Heart punch, heart punch. - There you go, film Walker. 1000 01:18:31,673 --> 01:18:32,940 Walker! 1001 01:18:35,711 --> 01:18:38,312 I think they just changed, didn't they? 1002 01:18:38,313 --> 01:18:40,815 I just want to see. 1003 01:18:40,816 --> 01:18:42,817 - Walker. - I'm bored. 1004 01:18:42,818 --> 01:18:44,552 Say something to your wife. Dude, you know you want to. 1005 01:18:44,553 --> 01:18:46,120 Hey, babe, I miss you. 1006 01:18:46,121 --> 01:18:47,788 Can't wait to get home and... 1007 01:18:50,992 --> 01:18:53,260 Hurry up, hurry up! 1008 01:18:53,261 --> 01:18:55,596 Do you want to know when you're going home or not? 1009 01:18:57,165 --> 01:19:00,301 All right, what's been told to the wives is 1010 01:19:00,302 --> 01:19:02,837 we'll be back in Italy, not out of country, 1011 01:19:02,838 --> 01:19:06,073 back in Italy between August 4th and 7th. 1012 01:19:06,074 --> 01:19:08,175 So look at your fucking watch. 1013 01:19:08,176 --> 01:19:11,278 Two months from today and counting down. 1014 01:19:11,279 --> 01:19:13,948 That's bad news if you're one of those dudes that's like, 1015 01:19:13,949 --> 01:19:15,950 "Fuck, I love it here and I wanted to wait till September 1016 01:19:15,951 --> 01:19:17,251 and get an extra thousand dollars." 1017 01:19:17,252 --> 01:19:19,286 And if that's you, I don't care. 1018 01:19:19,287 --> 01:19:21,255 Fuck you. We're going home. 1019 01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:31,766 Today things were a little bit hectic. 1020 01:19:31,767 --> 01:19:34,568 We found out that one of our sister companies, Chosen Company, 1021 01:19:34,569 --> 01:19:37,004 up north of Camp Blessing, 1022 01:19:37,005 --> 01:19:40,241 starting a new base lost nine soldiers 1023 01:19:40,242 --> 01:19:44,845 and had an additional twelve US wounded 1024 01:19:44,846 --> 01:19:47,848 and a thirteen additional ANA that were wounded. 1025 01:19:51,353 --> 01:19:53,387 Hey, is this everybody? 1026 01:19:53,388 --> 01:19:55,089 We got the Mortars? We got Second Platoon? 1027 01:19:57,893 --> 01:20:01,695 Okay, hey, listen up. 1028 01:20:01,696 --> 01:20:04,064 I'm going to talk to you guys a little bit about 1029 01:20:04,065 --> 01:20:08,068 some of what happened up with Chosen Company. 1030 01:20:08,069 --> 01:20:10,271 I want you guys to mourn, 1031 01:20:10,272 --> 01:20:13,340 and then I want you guys to get over it and do your jobs. 1032 01:20:13,341 --> 01:20:15,276 Okay? 1033 01:20:15,277 --> 01:20:17,478 First... Hey, Proctor, why did you come in the army, man? 1034 01:20:18,980 --> 01:20:20,281 To fight for my country, sir. 1035 01:20:20,282 --> 01:20:21,849 - To fight for your country? - Roger, sir. 1036 01:20:21,850 --> 01:20:24,051 Did you expect that you might get injured or die? 1037 01:20:24,052 --> 01:20:25,286 Absolutely, sir. 1038 01:20:25,287 --> 01:20:27,688 Anybody join not knowing that that might be an option? 1039 01:20:29,357 --> 01:20:33,961 We lose PFC Vimoto on June 5th, 2007. 1040 01:20:33,962 --> 01:20:36,597 What happens the very next day after that, Sergeant Buno? 1041 01:20:36,598 --> 01:20:40,968 We go out on patrols, we get attacked again. 1042 01:20:40,969 --> 01:20:43,170 Right. 1043 01:20:43,171 --> 01:20:46,173 July 22nd, we lose Restrepo, right? 1044 01:20:48,176 --> 01:20:50,010 What do we keep on doing after that? 1045 01:20:50,011 --> 01:20:51,111 Fighting. 1046 01:20:51,112 --> 01:20:53,380 We keep on fighting and taking it to the enemy, right? 1047 01:20:53,381 --> 01:20:56,750 What do you guys think would have happened if we had just stopped at Vimoto 1048 01:20:56,751 --> 01:20:59,286 and acted like our predecessors before us 1049 01:20:59,287 --> 01:21:01,622 and we stood our ground there, 1050 01:21:01,623 --> 01:21:04,024 didn't go out there doing our aggressive patrolling, 1051 01:21:04,025 --> 01:21:06,260 didn't go out there and build OP Restrepo, 1052 01:21:06,261 --> 01:21:08,996 which I think we'll all venture to say, 1053 01:21:08,997 --> 01:21:12,533 like, pretty much changed the entire dynamics of the entire valley? 1054 01:21:14,836 --> 01:21:16,303 You guys know what would have happened? 1055 01:21:16,304 --> 01:21:19,139 The same shit that happened today up at Chosen Company. 1056 01:21:19,140 --> 01:21:20,941 Now with Chosen Company, 1057 01:21:20,942 --> 01:21:23,711 they went into an area that they knew was going to be contested. 1058 01:21:23,712 --> 01:21:25,746 They knew what they were getting into. 1059 01:21:25,747 --> 01:21:30,784 They've been talking about going to Wanat since July of 2007. 1060 01:21:30,785 --> 01:21:33,420 We went there, they did it. 1061 01:21:33,421 --> 01:21:35,122 The fucking only way to bounce back 1062 01:21:35,123 --> 01:21:37,024 from shit like this is to go out there 1063 01:21:37,025 --> 01:21:39,326 and make the individuals that did this to us fucking pay. 1064 01:21:41,196 --> 01:21:43,931 It's not to sit back here and hide behind our fucking hescoes. 1065 01:21:43,932 --> 01:21:46,133 It's not to go back down to our fucking rucks 1066 01:21:46,134 --> 01:21:47,935 and fucking feel sorry for ourselves 1067 01:21:47,936 --> 01:21:49,536 and get snuggled up in our woobie. 1068 01:21:50,872 --> 01:21:52,806 We go out there, we find the motherfuckers that did this 1069 01:21:52,807 --> 01:21:53,874 and we make them pay. 1070 01:21:53,875 --> 01:21:55,943 We make them feel how we feel right now. 1071 01:21:58,847 --> 01:22:00,414 For those of you guys that pray, 1072 01:22:00,415 --> 01:22:06,053 let's go ahead and take a moment of silence in... 1073 01:22:06,054 --> 01:22:07,755 In remembrance the ten... 1074 01:22:07,756 --> 01:22:09,957 Ten to nine soldiers that we lost today 1075 01:22:09,958 --> 01:22:12,159 and the families of them 1076 01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:15,396 and the families of those that were hurt, 1077 01:22:15,397 --> 01:22:16,931 and then I'll let you guys go ahead 1078 01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:18,465 and get about your business. 1079 01:22:46,027 --> 01:22:47,328 Get down. 1080 01:23:11,252 --> 01:23:12,886 Oh, wow, you can't see shit now. 1081 01:23:15,991 --> 01:23:18,592 Hey, can I shoot Sergeant Mac? I'm going to fucking get him. 1082 01:23:18,593 --> 01:23:19,793 - Can I shoot? - Wait till he engages. 1083 01:23:19,794 --> 01:23:22,162 Wait till he engages, then fucking get him. 1084 01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:26,967 There he goes. 1085 01:23:31,906 --> 01:23:33,374 Low right, low right! 1086 01:23:33,375 --> 01:23:34,375 Low right! 1087 01:23:38,446 --> 01:23:40,314 - Hey, that motherfucker's done. - Is he? 1088 01:23:43,318 --> 01:23:45,219 Hey, Olson, he's done. 1089 01:23:47,355 --> 01:23:48,422 Yeah! 1090 01:23:48,423 --> 01:23:51,225 A direct hit on that dude. 1091 01:23:51,226 --> 01:23:52,726 That motherfucker's done, man! 1092 01:23:52,727 --> 01:23:54,995 That motherfucker's done, dude! 1093 01:23:54,996 --> 01:23:56,597 Fuck you, bitches! 1094 01:23:56,598 --> 01:23:57,765 Body parts falling apart. 1095 01:23:57,766 --> 01:23:59,366 The L-Ras, dude, 1096 01:23:59,367 --> 01:24:03,070 it was him running and then him blasting into pieces. 1097 01:24:03,071 --> 01:24:05,105 - Yeah? - Yeah, dude. 1098 01:24:05,106 --> 01:24:07,841 There you go, motherfucker, shoot at us again. 1099 01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:15,215 By the end, like I was... 1100 01:24:15,216 --> 01:24:18,018 I really didn't want to get overrun. 1101 01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:23,590 But I just wish they were closer 1102 01:24:23,591 --> 01:24:26,827 so I could have actually seen them when I killed them. 1103 01:24:31,032 --> 01:24:32,733 626 perstat, 1104 01:24:32,734 --> 01:24:35,369 I have twenty at Restrepo. 1105 01:24:35,370 --> 01:24:37,771 The only question I have is tonight, 1106 01:24:37,772 --> 01:24:41,842 are we going to be doing an illum round for Doc Restrepo? 1107 01:24:41,843 --> 01:24:43,510 Today's twenty two July. 1108 01:24:43,511 --> 01:24:45,746 Over. 1109 01:24:45,747 --> 01:24:48,082 Yeah, we're planning on doing the illum round. 1110 01:24:50,385 --> 01:24:54,054 One last thing, seventeen tonight 1111 01:24:54,055 --> 01:24:56,223 they're shooting for Doc Restrepo. 1112 01:24:56,224 --> 01:24:58,025 Seventeen tonight. 1113 01:24:59,427 --> 01:25:01,829 He's fucking a little bit drunk. 1114 01:25:01,830 --> 01:25:03,997 I'm fucking... I'm a little bit drunk at this point. 1115 01:25:03,998 --> 01:25:05,532 And I see him... 1116 01:25:05,533 --> 01:25:08,268 I see him just eyeing everyone up, just like this. 1117 01:25:08,269 --> 01:25:09,670 Who is that, Kim? 1118 01:25:09,671 --> 01:25:11,705 No, Restrepo. 1119 01:25:11,706 --> 01:25:13,006 Eyeing everyone up. 1120 01:25:13,007 --> 01:25:14,508 I come up to him and I'm like, "What's wrong, bro?" 1121 01:25:14,509 --> 01:25:15,809 He's like, "Yo, bro, 1122 01:25:15,810 --> 01:25:17,845 I'm going to stab these fools, yo." 1123 01:25:17,846 --> 01:25:19,746 I'm like, I see it in his hand. 1124 01:25:19,747 --> 01:25:22,316 He's got the fucking Gerber out with the knife out, 1125 01:25:22,317 --> 01:25:25,385 fucking closed up, just ready to fucking shank someone, dude. 1126 01:25:25,386 --> 01:25:28,689 I'm like... and this is after the night before 1127 01:25:28,690 --> 01:25:34,128 we ended up down in the fucking the steps of Rome fucking train station, 1128 01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:37,631 and I was peeing, in my pants. 1129 01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:48,041 What we did to mark the anniversary of our dead, 1130 01:25:48,042 --> 01:25:49,576 we shot off flares, 1131 01:25:49,577 --> 01:25:53,447 and where Restrepo died, we shot off flares. 1132 01:25:58,887 --> 01:26:01,655 You know, and kind of raise one up. 1133 01:26:01,656 --> 01:26:04,591 Say a prayer, say a few words in your head 1134 01:26:04,592 --> 01:26:06,493 and you move on. 1135 01:27:35,216 --> 01:27:37,951 Did my last patrol hopefully. 1136 01:27:37,952 --> 01:27:40,053 Hopefully I don't get called back out for something. 1137 01:27:42,323 --> 01:27:44,024 Fly out of here in a few days. 1138 01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:48,862 It's kind of strange thinking you'll never come back to OP Restrepo again. 1139 01:27:48,863 --> 01:27:50,697 Yeah. 1140 01:27:50,698 --> 01:27:52,299 It's a good feeling, though. 1141 01:27:52,300 --> 01:27:55,168 It's been a long fucking deployment right there. 1142 01:27:56,738 --> 01:27:59,206 Leaving Restrepo? 1143 01:27:59,207 --> 01:28:01,475 It's too good to be true, you know? 1144 01:28:01,476 --> 01:28:04,278 We're going to die here. Isn't that right, Henry? 1145 01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:06,380 - Roger, Sergeant. - But we're leaving instead. 1146 01:28:06,381 --> 01:28:09,216 God's going to fuck with our emotions 1147 01:28:09,217 --> 01:28:10,751 and kill us on the bird out. 1148 01:28:12,954 --> 01:28:16,923 I'm never coming back, never coming back. 1149 01:28:18,559 --> 01:28:20,227 It's time to go. 1150 01:28:25,066 --> 01:28:26,533 That's heavy. 1151 01:28:32,106 --> 01:28:33,940 Goodbye, OP Restrepo. 1152 01:28:36,044 --> 01:28:37,844 I'm never going to have to be here again. 1153 01:28:41,449 --> 01:28:45,118 Not that I didn't enjoy my time here, 1154 01:28:45,119 --> 01:28:46,987 but it's time to move on. 1155 01:28:53,661 --> 01:28:55,829 - Yes! - See you later. 1156 01:28:58,266 --> 01:29:00,400 The high point for us was going home. 1157 01:29:00,401 --> 01:29:02,402 Getting out of there. 1158 01:29:02,403 --> 01:29:05,305 Going home, seriously. No doubt about it. 1159 01:29:05,306 --> 01:29:08,775 Each one of my soldiers' face, you can tell, going home. 1160 01:29:11,512 --> 01:29:12,979 We done our job. 1161 01:29:12,980 --> 01:29:15,048 We did what we were supposed to have been doing 1162 01:29:15,049 --> 01:29:16,550 and we out of here. 1163 01:29:26,327 --> 01:29:29,496 The Korengal, as far as... What did we achieve? 1164 01:29:29,497 --> 01:29:31,765 I'm always going to think about Restrepo. 1165 01:29:31,766 --> 01:29:37,404 Building Restrepo was the single most important event 1166 01:29:37,405 --> 01:29:40,073 for the Korengal. 1167 01:29:40,074 --> 01:29:43,176 And how... 1168 01:29:43,177 --> 01:29:44,611 how the boys did it. 1169 01:29:44,612 --> 01:29:45,612 Fighting. 1170 01:29:47,415 --> 01:29:49,516 And then turning around and going back to working. 1171 01:30:02,764 --> 01:30:05,132 It makes us proud when we see the news... 1172 01:30:05,133 --> 01:30:07,534 They still call it Restrepo... 1173 01:30:07,535 --> 01:30:09,269 Knowing that, you know, 1174 01:30:09,270 --> 01:30:11,538 we painted it on the walls, this is for Doc Restrepo. 1175 01:30:11,539 --> 01:30:14,608 The name fit the place after a while, 1176 01:30:14,609 --> 01:30:17,310 after it became built up, 1177 01:30:17,311 --> 01:30:19,746 after it became a better place. 1178 01:30:19,747 --> 01:30:22,349 But when I hear Restrepo, 1179 01:30:22,350 --> 01:30:25,252 I still think of the person. 1180 01:30:25,253 --> 01:30:28,255 You can't... You can't tame the beast. 1181 01:30:29,357 --> 01:30:31,091 You know? 1182 01:30:31,092 --> 01:30:32,759 Got him. 1183 01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:34,694 Yeah, he got him. He got him. 1184 01:30:34,695 --> 01:30:35,996 He did get him. 1185 01:30:35,997 --> 01:30:37,297 Hey, Lex, what's going on tonight? 1186 01:30:37,298 --> 01:30:39,332 Just tell us. Break it down, break it down. 1187 01:30:39,333 --> 01:30:40,667 All I want to do 1188 01:30:40,668 --> 01:30:42,669 is find a miniature zebra, 1189 01:30:42,670 --> 01:30:45,305 put a little tiny saddle on it and ride it. 1190 01:30:46,340 --> 01:30:47,908 There ain't no zebras on the pub crawl. 1191 01:30:47,909 --> 01:30:51,111 I didn't... Miniature zebras. 1192 01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:54,948 My bad, there are miniature zebras. What the fuck? 1193 01:30:54,949 --> 01:30:57,083 Let's say goodbye, let's say goodbye. 1194 01:30:57,084 --> 01:31:00,153 Hey, tune in next time where we're going to be still drunk as fuck. 1195 01:31:00,154 --> 01:31:01,721 Saying goodnight to the bad guy, man. 1196 01:31:01,722 --> 01:31:03,723 The same time, the same dope rhyme, 1197 01:31:03,724 --> 01:31:06,226 because we're going to be still loving life 1198 01:31:06,227 --> 01:31:08,128 and getting ready to go to war. 1199 01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:21,428 Here or hea? 1200 01:33:21,429 --> 01:33:23,430 H-E-A. Hea. 1201 01:33:24,799 --> 01:33:27,267 "O'Byrne wuz hea." 1202 01:33:27,268 --> 01:33:28,335 That's how we roll. 1203 01:33:28,336 --> 01:33:31,338 Subtitled By J.R. Media Services, Inc. Burbank, CA