- When we are first, you know, walk to that country,
I mean, you have a heavy nation on your shoulders
You know, we are an American response
The most terrible terrorist attacks on U.S. lands.
- Never. - Ever.
- And for many of us,
You know, we feel that we have responsibility
To people who die,
To set the stage alone, don't do it to America And don't pay the price.
That's about... Not retribution,
But it's about justice.
- what is said
About, "who will go?"
"Send me."
- You know... - Isaiah 6: 8.
- Sir? - Isaiah 6: 8.
"Who will go, and who should I send?"
- Yeah, "who will go, and who should I send?"
Send me, send me,
Because I'm a man who wants to make someone pay
To kill my brothers and sisters.
- I think we have to assume
That there will be more attacks.
- The United States military has begun to attack.
- Coalition fighter planes have free to control Afghanistan.
- Public, though... I think 94% of the public...
Want us to go somewhere and do something
- U.S. Army Special Forces, are known as green berets...
- Green Berets...
- In Afghanistan
The report first appeared in Pakistani newspapers...
- Known as calm professionals...
So confidential, we agreed not to disclose it
Even their first names.
- I never talk about the way I feel like I should.
- That is American Green Bert attacks in the darkness of the night
- Guns start flail back and forth.
Pow-pow, pow, pow...
- This is another type war:
- Unconventional warfare.
- And for me, It's like brotherhood.
- what wins
- You only pray
You will prove yourself to your brothers - what started as a 100-day mission...
- U.S. Wars longest... - It's been a long war...
- The longest war in American history
- We have lived it for 15 years
- Think I'm 10 years old.
It must have been 9 or 10, around 1970, I think.
I saw John Wayne, "green beret,"
And I think, "man, yeah..."
- They all seem to think that's because my father joined,
It's only natural for me to join,
But that's not the case.
I went to go watch a movie.
- Funny.
A man takes one of these into battle,
And he brings Strange guilt
All the rest of his life.
- I think everything I have done in the army
If it's not that strong, is for me.
I think, how difficult is that?
That's quite difficult.
Pretty good, huh.
♪ ♪
- Taliban must turn Osama bin loaded
And must destroy terrorist camps
If not, there will be consequences.
- Taliban spokesman denies Afghanistan Allowed laden bin to attack from its territory
- Good afternoon.
On my orders,
The United States military has begun to attack
Against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
- I am close to these people as people in my own family,
And in some ways closer.
These are my 11 best friends in the world.
That's how I feel.
- Here we are in Afghanistan
I mean, we came in, You know, some hard...
- Maybe very extreme combat environment
As you can understand.
This tests you in everything... Physically, mentally...
Emotions.
- we are
And if you need an army,
We are pioneers, spearheads, praetorian people.
- this has happened for, what, 15 years
- Yeah.
- We talk about people.
You know, as a whole, we already...
We have been deployed doing pretty crazy nonsense
For a while.
And you can into a unit like this,
And that's what you do.
That's your game
- I have been in the military now 30 years old
That mission is the culmination of my career,
Really the best thing
A green beret team can do it.
- Mark was not in the team again at that time
So I think I'm good to go.
I am 6 1/2 months pregnant.
And we got a call When we were in the baby shop,
Shopping for baby goods.
I think Mr. Paul calls him and says...
- "Hold your butt back here."
- "guess what, you go back to the team."
And I'm like, "oh..."
- We are both aware
I might not be there
For the birth of our child.
On the drive back from Nashville, then,
We realize that we will do it better choose the name
Amy knows we will go, But she doesn't know where.
Hell, I don't know where we go exactly
- Ramp down the big cloud
From the powder talcum powder.
We come piling up From behind that,
Stop all our nonsense This is a big and big family.
Helicopters take off.
Dust type settles,
And from dust Come sand people.
- Right.
- When you see a man with AK
Who is dressed just like your enemy,
And you have to walk to him
And basically ask him, "Hey, how are you doing?"
And you don't know whether he will say...
You stretch out his hand and shake it,
Or he will shoot you
- Taliban forces of around 30,000 fighters...
Born from a place of warfare,
Taken by Kabul in 1996 and enacted cruel laws.
- Indiscriminately and brutally...
- Beaten publicly for adultery
In front of from all male viewers...
- We have a small group...
- Taliban invited Osama bin laden...
- Osama bin laden will offer money
And the fighters to fight.
- Northern Alliance comes with
In reciprocal opposition to Taliban
- General Dostum and advance security
Come on up.
- General Dostum, who has a fierce reputation
For treatment foreign prisoners
- He jumps down from the horse, and...
- Hell, the horse is still there Move, he jumps.
- Yeah. - He is like, "hey."
- General Dostum agrees to take my team members and me
Get to the command post in the future.
"I can't guarantee your safety."
He said, "There are some people
It might be very disappointing that Americans are here."
So we will ride a horse for the first time in battle
- Mark knows horses.
He knows the horse When he gets there.
We are not
Mark knows right away
That you go to 400 dudes on a horse and say,
"hey, someone lower their horse
And give it to Americans,"
You won't get smooth horses
- We have a general costume headquarters.
My task at that time
Is to build and maintain good relations.
The plan that he had told us
Is Mazar-E Sharif the key state,
And if we can free Mazar-E Sharif,
Northern Province will be released.
If we are released northern province,
Then Kabul can be released.
And from there, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad.
We represent the 5th group.
We represent America foreign policy...
At the end point, dirty, dirty, the end of the bloody battle...
We enter and help enable
Chances are a brighter future
For the people of Afghanistan.
- That's my first rodeo.
We got married in April; he left in October
He is a medical.
I think it's safe.
Yes, he lied to me, friend.
No, he doesn't lie to me; he is a medical
- Is that what they call?
- I don't know
You know what that is.
- A little dust from it.
- Pickled tea.
- Many memories, You know what I mean?
It's like... that you kind of like that turn it off and save it.
Not so good, but it's okay.
- Every husband will tell you
That they will die before we partner do.
- Suck it up, buttercup. - Suck it up, will.
- Hey, how about we toast to everyone who isn't here
- Yeah, that's it.
- Because we have chad, we got Pete...
- Pete. - We have Steve
- Bill. - Bill, wherever you are
- wherever he is
- Salud. - Salud.
- what?
That nonsense
- What is this nonsense?
- Hey
Say hello.
Come on.
Not until you are forced to retire,
You must retire.
Then you isolate yourself from your family
And all others.
You internalize everything.
You try to find a new normal.
- Dead.
Psst, sit
What I found peace with
Is it to go here, crawl around the jeep
And, you know, be one more.
Being here, I mean, listen.
You know, you can get no mind at all
Each of our stories is almost the same,
Start reaching out and finding,
You know, the only way we all will cure each other
- Oh, that's it.
That's me there.
- You know, in special forces, You have a team,
And the team is 12 people.
You have a captain, team sergeant,
A team officer officer,
Two engineers, two commas,
Two medical officers, two weapons sergeants
It formulates a team,
And each team will have specialization,
Like high altitude, low-opening jumping
or scuba diving
Or attack direct action.
- I am the best tactic
For direct actions there are
At that time, I thought I was above the world.
- Behind.
- General franks, again, to special forces,
Can you give us a sense what size and scope
From their mission will develop over the next month,
From the classic link with the northern alliance group
and reconnaissance,
For more direct actions,
Shoot-em-up ambushes type of situation?
- Short answer, and that's all...
Someone should not assume which does not yet exist
Strategic surveillance and direct action activities.
You won't expect me to tell you
Exactly what they do
- Other evidence, is far more secret to operations
Is it going well...
- This particular power is trying to hunt down
Terrorist suspects Osama bin loaded...
- Attacks like letters by command
To chase and eradicate some of the infrastructure.
- mission statement is to kill or capture
Senior Al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership, stop.
Enter name, stop.
Enter location, stop.
At our level, there is a large map there,
And the big map is synchronized by who is next,
Who is the first, okay?
And who is the first is a number
And a picture and a little background.
Go to one room, that is total chaos.
Seven people, guy machines,
Avoid bullets, shoot people, from hand to hand
You run to the next room,
People are shooting out of the back of the window
One person gives up.
You go to the next room, Bam.
It's on-off, on-off, on-off, on-off, on...
Home helicopters.
As a child, I was forced to read homer's "odyssey,"
You know, about a king of warriors trying to go home
And the family passes the situation.
You never really understood it,
Because I don't have maturity.
Now, you know, you're trying to find, you know,
The ins and outs of and the peace of life.
That, right now, is more valuable
More than one million dollars in the bank.
- As a leader,
You have to balance, you know, "what is the mission?
trying what to achieve?"
And the mission is always
To put your army in danger.
So, I think, as a soldier,
There is a part of you, as an individual,
You want to see it, To understand it,
To be tested by it.
But then, as a leader,
You are very frightened of thoughts
Make a bad decision which makes your army killed.
- You need a very strong team leader.
Amerine is amazing.
- It's like democracy.
You have to do it type, you know...
There is a strong desire.
12 strong desires
- You are stuck with this group of people
And thrown into Afghanistan.
And that's just fun.
Yes, that's awesome.
- You know, we identified Tarin Kowt
As a first step in our campaign
The goal is to take Kandahar.
I met Hamid for the first time in the hallway.
You know, he will go to the bathroom,
And I'm walking to get coffee,
And that's only men trying to work with each other
It doesn't have it anytime bullshit
Even when all the tension increases
Between U.S. And Hamid Karzai,
He still has extraordinary abilities
Hold objects together there.
I think it's around 3:00 a.m. in the morning or so.
F-18 looks small the truck convoy goes north.
So this is the F-18 flying above,
And they call permission to get involved
And that's when... That's when the war
It really becomes real.
There is only this time where Alan looks at me
And say, you know, "are they obviously involved?"
And, like, everyone Suddenly calm.
I mean, I...
I will authorize F-18
But you know, what if I am wrong?
And that is the silence that always sticks with me
You know, "are they obviously involved?"
And suddenly all eyes are on me.
I looked at Allen, and I said, "take care of them."
And after I say the words,
That's just sort of, where did it come from?
Smoke them?
I don't say nonsense like that.
I mean, it's not me.
Things we didn't do realized, though,
Are these trucks not the front of the convoy.
They are actually in the tail of the convoy
Maybe 1,000 Taliban.
- So we just kind of lookin, you know, with binos,
And we see this glimpse.
- I mean, these people come heavy,
And we speak 23mm weapons.
A 23mm is, like, a big one.
I mean, it will... This will blow you, "pah."
You will be like a fog.
- We tell the pilot,
"Okay, we are two trucks there."
And the pilot will go like, "that's it."
"Yes, that's us; all others are our southern enemies."
We are messed up.
- And YOSHIDA assured us, He was like, "man, I'm setting songs.
" I was talking to this pilot.
We knock them. "
And he will just keep saying, " clean the heat, clean the heat. "
Throughout the night,
It continues and further.
And we just, like, bombed, like 100 vehicles
All night
"Pop-pop-pop."
- I mean, I don't know we are tall and euphoric
It's like, "wow."
We just trying to win... And life. - I think, for me, the idea Fighting from a distance,
Fighting with this air strike,
It doesn't work with me.
I truly...
This is almost promoted only promiscuous use
Military strength.
I don't know how to explain it.
It's just...
I mean, we will do it have died otherwise
There are no other alternatives.
But there are those who don't feel right about it.
I mean, in the end, we massacred them, you know
And when they retreat, we continue to bomb them
I mean, we delete it.
But I'm not feeling good about how we should do it.
I just feel like...
Feel like it should See the eyes of the enemy
Before I kill him.
- We went down, and we started doing combat damage assessments
And counting, you know, destroy vehicles
And, you know, in some of them,
There are still some charred bodies
That's just...
They are traveling on this little Toyota truck,
And you finish a lot of people behind the truck
And as many guys in front from the trucks you can.
So maybe there are eight or nine people
Inside the Toyota truck,
And there are, you know, hundreds of trucks - I don't know how to explain it
That's just...
That's just what it is, do you know?
You are just... You, like, were originally kind of...
I don't want to say surprised, But you're like, "wow."
I mean, you see people
That really is burned and charred to death.
You know, you are like, "ooh, wow."
- That was the first of the massacre
That I have seen, you know, with my own eyes.
That doesn't bother me too much.
That's just terrible, it's up.
But you are an enemy, and it's okay
And that's kind of how you program it
"If I don't do this for you, you will do it for me."
And it's really that simple.
- One of the things that people... They just...
The first thing that comes out of their mouths, "how many people did you kill?"
I don't know we're counting.
I don't know We should count.
If you know how many people you have killed,
Maybe not enough.
- This is not a scorecard. - This is not a scorecard.
- You know, this...
- And there is a difference
Between shooting someone face to face
And someone from a distance drops a bomb
It's impersonal, Do you know what I mean?
"Ah, take him.
Ooh, dust, whoo-hoo, high-five."
You know, a little more shots,
"Wow, the mechanics Shots are great."
Face to face, I can tell you What it smells like,
You know how long it will make them bleed.
Some people can't get rid of it from the smell, okay
Burning body odor
Different from the smell of a burning tire
And you never know until you pass
And you like, "oh, shit,"
Because the smell is now planted in your brain,
What that means.
- My beard is covered in blood.
I mean, I'm not just look, smell; I tasted
I thought I would break my nose, but then I realized,
I am not hit by anything, and why am I bleeding?
And, oh, it's not my blood.
And I still... I'll get it That brightness sometimes,
And that will bring me back.
You just... that's...
You know, that's the horror of all of them This is very personal.
- I grew up with it strong American cowboys,
U.S. Cavalry Heritage.
I might be riding a horse before I can walk
You know, I have studied U.S. And confederation
Commander cavalry
We have walked on the battlefield from Gettysburg
And get off through Tennessee campaign
It wasn't lost to me that here I am,
In the 21st century,
And I lead a 19th century cavalry.
- One of the things about sf guys,
Most of them are kind rough and fall
Getting started with.
- He left, I hope...
- And just slide the bar the other day with that...
- There is no load behind it.
- No, put it first.
Put it.
- the way I grew up in West Virginia,
That's clans, you know.
Some hollows, all of this family lives on this one
All of these families live in that one
And, you know, if you make it the enemy is one person here,
There's more.
- Afghani...
- Yes, understanding how tribal people think
Obviously it will help.
- Each of these leaders told us,
Don't be portrayed as an invader.
You are here as a liberator.
That's what you say
Because we are very few,
We can actually describe
The Taliban are actually foreign invaders,
Pakistani Taliban who have arrived,
Al-Qaeda who have taken over
And hijacked this person's country.
- Straight ahead. - Straight ahead.
- That is a foreign Taliban. - Foreign Taliban
- Okay, the one to the left...
- We have now raised this army,
Who will rise in all the northern provinces,
And we will press for Mazar-E Sharif.
The situation is dictated by which needs to be decentralized.
Each cell is three people, then,
Assigned to support an afghan commander
That is between them 300 to 750 fighters.
Each of these cells is four- for an eight-hour horse ride.
Hot, dusty, dirty,
Riding the most vicious, most vulnerable, the most disgusting horse
- I ride a Vince horse one time
- Rusty?
- I like, "oh, my God, Vince,
How are you staying on this?"
- The horse is hijacked cross with a werewolf
That...
- Americans will lose.
Afghan people will do it get off off
And everyone will do it somewhat cheering.
That's another bond experience
- Extraordinary photo of the defense department
Released today.
The United States declares special forces riding horses
- When was the last time you saw U.S. military personnel.
In a battle with horseback riding?
- Don't have it in battle for a long time.
That is a difficult mission.
- Not until I see it on TV.
- Yes, that's sort of gift
- Yes, that's when I receive a call
3:00 a.m.
- Well, and 2 and 2 still make 4.
It's like, "oh, let's see, where they can
Afghanistan maybe?"
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- We can't talk about where we are
Or whatever we will do.
And back from a small battle, then,
I got a message:
"Something is wrong, call at home."
- I have...
I have Rich.
Dan Michelle, bless her heart,
He is talking on the phone,
Try to find a way to get hold of the
sign Let him know that I have delivering our daughter
And... but I didn't hear it from him
Until we are already out and at home A few days later.
- Amy enters for appointments,
A normal appointment,
And there are some complications, apparently,
And ob
specialist Say, "You are experiencing this baby today."
And it's over, what, one month earlier
- Yeah, he said I had two hours to get my business in sequence,
And I don't go,
That I have to stay in the hospital.
So I called...
- He calls this wasp.
- these women
- And they come
And from what I understand,
Each of you is in the delivery room
- But that's what you do
You only do what you have to do
To keep your house organized,
To keep your children doing what they should do
- and safe
- Yeah.
And when they do it what they do,
You do what you have to do,
And that's how it is.
That's the way This group of women is.
- Bouncing.
You know, they teach you that in the Q
course They teach you that in ranger schools, in Sere school.
You only need to bounce back.
So I rejoin, take a deep breath, and...
We will go to the battlefield.
- Morning wood
- I hope we have that...
Froth, you will see.
- Yes, whatever.
- worth $ 7 per cup
I want to do something, man.
- you know there are will fight
What will you do, each other slap?
There is a wrist,
Break the finger it to you
Someone chews the nose.
- We hit one of the compounds,
And you can know immediately, you know,
That will happen a difficult blow
- They are building it
- You have less than an hour
From time you leave the helicopter,
Because if you are not in helicopters at other hours,
They will fly for 24 hours, and you must stay there.
- Unlike you, we don't have it every Afghani partner.
We... that's us, we,
And we are out in the country of bad people
Without support.
- And we are violated into the house,
And it's all slippery and everything.
We walk around, we like, "what is he?"
Well, at that time, we were not aware
That they don't have beds or furniture.
They just stack the carpet.
So we are under night vision.
You can barely see anything.
Your eyes will appear.
And on the floor, You see some movement,
You know, squirm, like, "what?"
I was a big person at the time,
And Tony is twice as big as me.
We see, and suddenly,
We see two small hands appearing from this blanket
And lift it up,
And look up and see small green eyes,
And he sits for a second, Squeeze his eyes like this.
And I'm like...
You know, you don't want to say anything,
Because his father can be in the next room.
We all have children.
Imagine your girl starts screaming.
So suddenly, he did it.
He starts screaming and goes crazy
Like...
- Yeah, yeah, "keep quiet."
- So I picked him up
Start screaming again.
One of the other rooms is on fire.
So now he really screamed and went crazy
- We can hear it via radio
- Yeah, it can be like that hear it in...
- And I'm like... Because we are outside.
- we are all in different homes.
- Yes, we are outside in a shootout
- I remember I had a baby Ruth bar,
So I reach in my pocket,
I pulled out a little baby Ruth bar
I'm like... you know, he doesn't know what candy is
Will be like this,
And he screamed and turned around his head and everything
I put it on my lips, and I put it on his lips,
And he licked his lips, and he was like, "huh?"
I came round the corner,
Where are they types of layers some other family members.
And I'm out of darkness.
And I think that's Rodney Trosco at the time,
Go, "what is this? do you do?"
You know, "put the child.
We are shooting here."
I like, "I don't know."
I get the rest of my tattoo colored
- are you right
Wow, I haven't.
I need to get some more...
One of the big things about battles
Is it capable save your emotions in check
Many people say that we don't have emotions anymore Well, maybe that's because we are good
Control our emotions
And don't let our emotions overtake everything else.
- Because you press all those emotions
So much and so long,
You don't know if you should be happy
Or sad again.
Zero emotion, across the board.
I'm not too happy.
I'm not too sad.
I'm not too excited.
And that, you know, becomes a big burden
For families too, because they don't know where I am.
"Do I do good things, dad?"
"of course I love you, the way to go."
- My name is Bill Howell, nice to meet you.
Yes, I work with Jefferson.
I am a special forces person.
- Oh, you? - Yes ma'am.
I work with it there in the 5th group.
Fix the motorbike, put it back together,
Fast, yes, sir.
- That's it, there.
- Holy... look at that
September '02
To be able to do this for Jesse is awesome
- You know, he's a man who can walk indoors And say how it is.
That's the motorbike; it's hard
You feel it, you know, the engine is strong,
Just like my father.
- Do you want to try to push it back?
- In my head, which emulates all belongs to my father And what I miss about him.
- I mean, it's impossible
Anyone can ever replace his father,
But if each of us can give him a little something
From what J.D.,
can't do Then I believe we do our work as brothers.
I will never want it to be my wife
I don't want to be one of my children
Back and forth, back and forth,
Don't know if you will go home,
Someone is killed.
What type... What kind of father am I?
I am young.
Very hard.
Very meaningful.
This is intimacy family,
That I don't have it when I am a green beret,
Because I am a good green beret.
Are many things wrong.
Good God.
And if possible, I will do it Many of them are different.
I'm sure a better father and a better husband.
You know, it's just...
What can you do,
But try learning and going forward, you know?
- Is that daddy? - That's father
- I just don't believe it.
- I remember when my father initially got the document
About how he will become team sergeant 574.
And that's honest my father's biggest dream,
Become a team sergeant.
- Do tobacco.
- Working in the tobacco field.
- Yes.
That's the real scorpion there.
- He goes, and then...
It feels...
Normal again in the sense That's what he did.
He will go and go do his job,
And we will all be here.
Go to school.
And then he will return in six or nine months.
We will see it again.
- This is the first letter I received from him
"Hello dear.
" Today is October 31st.
"This is the toughest trip for me.
" I really don't want to go.
I just don't want to go You and children. "
- I never read it
- I saved it for you
- His love for the family
Extended for how he takes care of the team
That is an extension of from his family.
- He is a good team sergeant.
He is rather soft.
He is like a big bear, until...
Until you make him upset, and he will, you know...
We don't upset him.
- Anti-Taliban forces seem to be closed
In the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
- Talk about Afghanistan's future start this morning
- A 44-year-old Pashtun tribal commander, Hamid Karzai.
- After Tarin Kowt,
There are all of these great indicators
That we make the Taliban afraid.
- We will go through a village and don't even shoot shots.
These people will do it out of wood
And you... you will be folded.
You will like, "wup, wup."
You know, you are about ready to shoot
You know, they will be like, "ahh!"
You know, waving.
As soon as they can see power enter,
They are all about that.
They want to be with you.
They want to expel the Taliban
- We really throw behind the SUV,
And only, you know, piles and stacks.
"hey, we have another partner, guys.
Come on."
- We have several hundred of these people hordes of afghan fighters,
And we only have to move This mass goes down to Kandahar.
- That's when we create tem
"messed up like afghan convoy."
- I know that is totally unrealistic
When I enter the special forces
That I will be given type of autonomy
That, holy shit, this I have...
That's exactly the campaign I, you know, dreamed of.
- Commander of the Northern Alliance ..
They have moved their troops
To the close area to Mazar-E Sharif...
- Fighting increases.
- We have better maneuvers riding horses in that area
Rather than Taliban or Al-Qaeda do.
They are in armored vehicles and pickup trucks.
They are bound to their fuel.
So we can to cut them
From strengthening
And cut them from backward.
I might go up 300 miles or more.
I am determined I will ride the horse
Along the way to Mazar-E Sharif.
- Crossing the river.
The water is quite high
That the actual horse starts to float on the river.
And, of course, we don't do it want to swim.
- Standing in water, the water is very cold,
Water reaches my waist.
I just look back, look south,
And then I just realized, first...
That is the most unbelievable shot I've seen
That is a thousand racers riding horses
It's peaceful, but majestic.
- Mazar-E Sharif has indeed been caught
With the northern alliance.
- They feel we are as liberators.
I don't study until later
That they consider my team,
From Uzbek knowledge, like Malakas,
Avenging angels with lightning swords
- Fall of the city
What is the biggest blow? to the Taliban in power
Since the allied air strike started 35 days ago.
- That is the peak
Of all SF soldiers trains for
- I graduated from Nevada Las Vegas university
With an accounting degree.
Going to work for an accounting company
And determine it I don't like it at all.
And I said, some have to become more alive
Instead of balancing the checkbook.
Don Bolduc is the best officer in my battalion
He also my operations officer
- That's his opinion from our senior leader
In the pentagon
What they want a lieutenant colonel,
More experienced officers,
On land in Afghanistan.
And that's why we are mobilizing.
For me, that is...
That's very interesting.
- I mean, one day I will say it my grandchildren about it
When I'm old and decrepit,
And they will leave, "oh, yes, sure, grandfather."
- You know, is temporarily handed over to our own device,
We feel like we are capable to get enough done.
It's almost seed from our own destruction,
Because everything works well.
Then we find out, you know, a head office with 20 people
Will enter
- I remember celebrating thank you in Pakistan,
And then we infiltrate the next night
- Okay, they moved
- Well, as soon as I get there, I have a big meeting,
You know, get Coffee is close to them.
And I explain it to them.
I say, "okay, this is the agreement.
" That's how the has been arranged
"That's how the has been directed
" and we are soldiers, so let's respect the flagpole
And beyond Emotions.
- So the thing we fear when this higher command
Come and start give us orders,
We must follow them.
Well, a higher order comes in, gives us an order,
And now we have to follow them.
Become someone else Now control the fight.
- I met Captain Amerine For the first time,
Captain Amerine and senior sergeant Davis.
I don't think they are...
I don't think they are really happy
- Oh, God, I hate that, tell this story
That just sucks.
Always annoying
I have seen all the way the truth can be twisted.
And...
I can't let that happen.
- How are you?
- I don't know
I don't know
The morning of the 5th, everything was finished
- 7:00, we started to see people, "oh, alright,"
You know, and then, "Hey what happened?"
And then the letter, so we are reading the letter
And burn it as soon as you read it
- On December 5,
The target is especially in this area.
We accept intel
From what we consider a very reliable source
Where is the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
That still rejects us
On the other hand of the bridge
So I went to the fox colonel.
I said, "Sir, I want to start
"some close air support,
Air support near daytime In this area."
- Hostilities are over
Taliban come To surrender.
Why is the battalion? headquarters
Calling in an air strike start with?
I mean, for me, is pretty clear A way to say it that they have involved the enemy
Before the war ends.
- I don't know whether the sun hits it correctly
But we observed the opening a cave
- Every air strike we direct
Basically personally is authorized by me
I explain for foxes and Bolduc.
- You know, I'm a colonel; he's a captain
So both are professional enough to know,
You know, I gave orders.
You execute... You execute the command.
- I'm very angry
Again, trying contains my anger
There are no valid targets for bombs there
- He's a commander
I mean, he defeated you.
He can do it whatever he wants, really.
Is that the most tactical the right way to do something?
No, not with us there.
- We can't do anything.
But there's nothing...
You know, I don't believe
That's right action.
We are just... We just tried
To prevent it
And just lower the procedures for them
To make a statement
And you know, sort of ruining their day
And let them release and retreat.
- B-52s overhead
They look back and say,
"Do we have to drop JDAM 2,000 pounds
At the opening of the cave?"
I said yes
I, you know...
As, you know, should I have doing something different?
Should I do...
Should I have...
You know, I must have just ignore this
- When you call Airstrik, You must be hypersensitive
All things can be wrong
You talk about 2,000-pound bombs.
- I will return everything,
All promotions, all acknowledgments,
All medals, everything I have,
Everything I have,
For all this ever happened
- All emotions and everything
Just turn off for a little.
And I remember this feeling.
First, "Damn, I'm not dead."
- The next thing I know
What is my head? pushed into dirt.
Mag crashed on it.
You know, this is... I don't see anyone.
I mean, you focus here.
- And I have blood and body parts,
You know, various... All my uniforms
- And I just sit there see myself,
And this thumb touches the inside of my arm here
I'm like, "oh, that's bad."
When I'm curved, because I have chest sores suck big,
All of this blood starts blasting from my shirt here.
And I remember starting to kind of go to shock,
And I said, "oh my God," three times.
And that's the last I think,
When I see that,
If I go face down, I will sink in this.
So when I'm out,
I have to go and change my head like this.
And that's the last one I remember, and I...
- You know, there is no day
I don't think about the whole program.
I mean, we never found enough from Davis senior sergeant
We have to do DNA analysis,
Because the bomb exploded exactly where he stood
- Our big sergeant company comes with news
574 it has JDAM falling in their position,
And the word J.D. And...
- Dano.
- Dano is k.I.A.
And that is a kind of a devastating moment
- 574 fatalities hit me hard enough
Try to find out what I want...
How do I want to tell you this, but...
- These people on your left and right,
And they will always be there, no matter what
And, for me, It's like brotherhood.
Excuse me.
- I finally turned off for a moment,
And I just cry my eyes.
The first Americans were killed in Afghanistan Are they killed by their own people?
- Afghan fighters have left the Taliban.
- Soldiers now leave hundreds.
- They submit Kandahar that day.
And... I only need one minute here.
- In four short months,
Our nation has begun to rebuild the New York and Pentagon,
Lifting a great coalition...
- I'm down there, on the congressional floor,
Listen to the president give a speech "evil kingdom"
That will end up being a speech that is very decisive
Over the next 14 years, really.
- Terrorist training camp,
Save people from hunger,
And free a country from brutal oppression
- What does victory feel like?
It feels like we do our work
I mean, like looking back, it's perfect...
You know, that is the mission we have trained
From time we come in special forces.
That is the mission.
- We have less than 100 people.
We defeat the Taliban and run Al-Qaeda.
Add 20,000 soldiers, has been jammed every time.
- I think we do make it look too easy.
But we don't have time to reflect on that
Before we attack Iraq
With hope will end quickly.
- What we find in Afghanistan confirms
That, far from ending there,
The war against terror just started
- So when we chase a bin loaded
From Afghanistan, to Pakistan,
As far as the commander told us,
We have done our work.
"good work."
We all but tie the bow in Afghanistan at that time.
The same team, the same group of people
Going to Iraq, and less than 90 days,
We think Iraq is also over.
- Yeah.
- We drink tea in Baghdad.
- literally
- Eat in a restaurant.
- You're welcome.
Yes, this is your country - You know, nine months later, you go home again,
And you get a new mission.
You usually enter VFW,
And you hear one person have one tour,
And you like, "oh, wow."
And you hear one person have two tours,
You are like, "ooh, he's a little crazy."
Do you know what I mean?
Someone has three tours,
You know it out of their minds
- Yeah.
- And what you see now is, you know,
People have five, seven, nine, ten tours,
And they still go.
- me and Scotty...
Scotty and I retire the same year
And when I retire,
I just go home and...
And I will tell you this
11 days after I retire, I put my wife in the hospital.
I don't even know why.
I'm just a little panicked.
I don't say it's PTSD.
I don't say that.
It's just... it's like,
You know, you go, and you do something,
And you do some, really, crazy things
And then, after it's done,
They only tell you, "goodbye."
- I just returned from Afghanistan again.
Another spread there.
This is my 26th number of placements
I forgot to give him some things last night
- I just filled him
How long have I known?
As long as I can remember it.
Maybe since 3 or 4.
So I've known him for a long time.
And sometimes he does it.
- I know.
- Yes, but...
- Amy, you know, raised our family,
You know, being a single working mother
Most of the year.
- I have some trying time at home,
But I got past it,
Then I shout at him for later,
Go, "that's how I have to deal with."
- This is just adapting,
Continue to evolve and adapt to the new normal.
Maybe it's part of that,
Do you keep turning on the heat? several degrees at a time
More than 26 placements,
And then you like that on new normal things.
My tolerance for bullshit
Sort at max.
And, you know, I...
I would say that might be one thing,
Just a little patience with myself
or my family, or...
- When he comes home from the spread,
We try to bring everyone here to just be family,
Hang out outside.
- is that good?
- But, yes, 14 years.
Rich born when he was in Afghanistan
He is almost 14 years old.
- Wait wait...
Now.
- I keep coming back because I want to believe
We make a difference.
You know, the ranger creed they instill in us
Do you know, "it's easy for me to show
" Bowel constancy to proceed to the destination.
Even though I am the only survivor, I keep coming back. "
- I remember that morning
It was like 2:00 a.m. in the morning
I just happened to be.
And I saw it on CNN.
That happened, two special forces soldiers were killed
And I just think,
"Oh God.
I hope they are nobody I know. "
- I am 13
Yes, I am at school.
They call my name for dismissal,
To come to the office is fired.
And I leave, and the person picks me up
Is someone I have never thought of? will pick me up
And we got into the car, and we went home.
I say, "OK, why are you? picked me up?"
And he said, "Alright, your mother just wants me to come to fetch you,
Pick you up early
And I remember saying loudly to her,
" maybe my father came home. "
I said, "maybe my father Go home today. "
- I walk in the door,
And that's when I saw the priest standing there.
I really saw my mother and my sister cried
The next day, when they said that they dropped bombs
And that hit it,
I'm angry.
I really hate the military for a moment,
But I have to act like no.
- How many soldiers died?
And for what?
For what
Okay, this is for our country.
But for what?
- Hey, this is a little special rum from Guatemala
It was introduced to me by a good friend
His team works in Guatemala for a year,
Do fid missions, and kick the butt.
I see...
- All right, one for brotherhood.
One for legions
- One for legions. - Legion, brother.
- Hello, cuz.
You're fine
Nice to see you.
Mikyong, how are you?
Nice to see you.
What do you think, man
- Yeah.
He is here, man, That is the main thing.
He is here.
- Dude, this...
- Are you excited? - Very very.
- Clean program
What do you think, man?
- I'm ready to start
- Try it?
- Make sure it's correct in neutral
Turn on the key.
Let him tear.
- Yes, that's neutral.
Hey, you want to sit on it?
- Jesse, why not? sitting on it?
That way, you can balance it, Because it's not on the stand.
Here it is.
Pop push, take some fuel on the bad boy
Yes!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- All right!
What
- Just hear the motor,
That's almost heard my father again
Like, "I'm here."
- There are only certain points around the world
Where I feel like I can just get lost,
You know, just being is able to disappear
Every soldier I've led in action
Injured or killed
What does it say about me?
What does say about my abilities as a leader?
What did say about me as a soldier?
Everyone from the hill,
And I walk back up the hill to where I know J.D. Has,
And I just started sort of doing one circle,
Search for anything I can.
I see.
I can't find anything.
I...
All that can come For me, this is this poem,
"in vain" by Wilfred Owen.
There are all this...
There is this widespread naivety about modern warfare.
And then, European trenches
Removes one generation.
"Move him to the sun.
" Gently touch him wake him up once,
"at home, whispering fields that have not been sown
" always wake him up, even in France,
"Until this morning and this snow
"If anyone can wake him now
" A good old sun will know.
"think about how to wake the seeds...
" Build the seeds first cold stars
"are limbs, so dumbfounded, side
" Full of nervousness, too difficult to stir?
"Is it for this? clay grows tall?
" What makes fatuous hard work sunbeams
"to break the earth's sleep at all?
I will slide beside you.
- You know, what's amazing for E is, we don't die
Because they don't put things like this
= = Unless you die
That's why a monument, and not a warning.
- Exactly.