Danger Close (2017)

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All right, gentlemen...

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Right here is
Black Rock Mountain, men.

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Fifteen to twenty minutes ago,

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Alpha Coy, became engaged
by 50 to 100 fighters,

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up, around, and on the vicinity
of Black Rock mountain.

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They're also taking some indirect
fires from this location.

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They hope to have them, uh,
backstopped by Bravo Coy

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and compress the enemy
between the two of 'em,

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setting the conditions
for us to come in

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and do our air assault.

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What's our
plan for this evening?

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Basically, we're rolling in with
the attack of the Command Element

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in order to secure
a, uh, high-traffic region

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for the, uh...
The Taliban.

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So you'll be with
Command Element in a Black Hawk

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and I'll be up with
the Joe's in a Chinook, yeah?

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Absolutely. Yeah, you get
the better spot, though.

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Beck Becks. I actually
have an L-10-11 going out.

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Upper foresight is good.

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Internals are incomplete.

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30 mag, all cooling.

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- You can go ahead, over.
- Roger, work it off.

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Arrow 2-5, I have
contact on all friendlies.

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We have good situational awareness.

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Arrow's clear.

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- Plug it in.
- Yep, Roger.

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Truckade...
Her movement's the tree line.

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- Got anybody in there?
- I'm looking, sir.

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Right there,
clock him, hold on a second.

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Oh, shit, right.

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Arrow 2-5, we
have multiple enemies

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in trees, engaging west of road.

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Ah, we're getting shot at.

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- Roger...
- Oh, shit, their in...

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That's affirmative.
We are taking fire

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from the west side...

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And, Hard Rock, this is Arrow,

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we need permission
to engage the tree line,

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where the RPG came from.

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Roger, you're clear to engage.

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Uh, fucking
light that tree line up, hit it.

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Roger.

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- Just to the left. Hit it.
- Roger.

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Okay, make
sure that-Okay, looking good.

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- Oh, shit.
- Hit it, hit it.

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- RPG right over there.
- Right, hit it!

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We have multiple
RPGs coming from that side

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at the aircraft, I copy.

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Right, hit it.

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Hit it again.

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Hit it again.

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Good man, good man.

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We neutralized the one RPG site.

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Roger, that's good, copy.

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- Come up the road.
- Up the road, Roger.

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Up the road, up the road
to the left... to the left.

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- Right there in that building.
- Arrow 2-5, are you seeing

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- or we're taking more contact?
- Okay.

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Roger, we're engaged.

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Oh my god, I got a bucket.

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Oh, shit...

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On, shit.

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2-5, 2-5, one
of our vehicles got hit.

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We lost the line of...

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Standby, we're
missing friendlies.

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We're trying to
get him out of there.

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There was a huge,
huge air assault operation.

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This was involving
the first and 5-0-8,

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the parachute infantry
regiment, an entire regiment.

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It was involving
7th Special Forces Group,

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more than 15
different air assets.

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It was a huge operation,

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and it was going to be going on
for weeks and weeks and weeks,

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and within that first hour,

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one of the Chinooks
had been shot down

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by a Taliban
Surface-to-Air missile.

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They had to try
to secure this huge,

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flaming crash site,

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and they didn't know
if there were any survivors.

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What happened
when you touched down?

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We had heard that
there had been a Chinook

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that was shot down,
but I just focused

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on my job of shooting video

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and trying to get the story.

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1-3-6, over.

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Air Humvee.

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Roger, we heard there was a downed
aircraft. Can we confirm that?

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Is anybody looking
to our North route?

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I'd linked up
with the Commander,

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Lieutenant Colonel Brian Menace.

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And we were moving
to clear a compound

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so he'd have a secure location

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because they needed
to control 15 aircraft

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that were racked
and stacked in the sky.

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This had now become a combat
search-and-rescue mission

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in addition to the ongoing
offensive operation.

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Spread out.

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- Moo.
- I need to get by you.

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Do you speak English?

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Hey, he does.

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Hey, get him over here now.

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Get him over here now.
Get him out here.

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Come on.

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Let me see it.
Here, all right.

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Yeah, these guys check out.
They're friendlies.

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Thank you.

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Who the fuck is our...

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- All right, you guys ready?
- Yeah.

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Which contact...

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- That one right there.
- Okay.

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Up, up, right there.
Hit it.

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Roger.

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Take that, fucker.
Here we go.

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- Coming up left.
- Roger.

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We nailed the shit
out of that one.

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Hey, Jimbo, what are we hearing?

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Thank you.

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I think what's
important to remember

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with this huge
operation is that...

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And it was an operation
that still went on

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for weeks and weeks thereafter.

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And there were many
battles that still followed

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and towns that these troops
had to clear, and...

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but the important thing that...
That can't get lost in this

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is that seven souls were lost.

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The five crew of the flipper

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and our coalition partners,

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a Brit and a Canadian...

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And that it... it
made no difference

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that... that it
was internationals

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or that they
might be reporters...

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That we had Americans that
were willing to risk their lives

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and go after and make sure
to recover the fallen.

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They had to count
the bodies of the fallen.

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And when I tracked down
Sergeant Greg Strickland,

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whose little six-man platoon...

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He had gone in there
and had counted five bodies.

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And he thought, okay,
well, I found the crew.

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And he was ordered
over the radio

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to go back in and
count the bodies again

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because the reporters
are missing.

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And he told me on camera
that he went back in there

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to look for the reporters,

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and he said he...
That... to look for me.

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I didn't know I was
supposed to be on that...

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On that helicopter,
on that Chinook.

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It was the guys
who told me afterwards.

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It was a punch to the gut

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because it was
this realization that...

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men put their lives at risk
to come after reporters,

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to come after people like me,

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even though I'm
not a service member.

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It's not that I have a purpose,

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but it's that I have
this huge responsibility.

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I have a debt to
pay back to these guys.

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I have to tell their stories.

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Did you stay embedded
with this group

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for the entirety
of their mission?

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No, I... I was with them
for a good week or so

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and then it was time
for me to dis-embed.

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I was trying to get in with the
Special Forces Teams in Iraq

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and I had a hit date
to try to get in there.

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And so it was time for me
to hitchhike my way to Iraq.

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I went to Diyala province,

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which is the size
of Massachusetts

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along the Iranian border,

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because that's where
I was going to embed

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with the Operational
Detachment Alpha 0-7-2.

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O.D.A 0-7-2 was
a so-called rough team...

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Very austere, out there
on the fringe of the empire...

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Where every day was truly
a fight for survival.

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Even their Special
Forces Commander

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called these twelve men
hard-charging

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and living the Special
Forces Dream...

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but they'd just lost
one of their own,

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Rob Pirelli, who I knew
from an earlier SF mission.

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Tell me... um...
tell me about Rob.

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Rob was the
senior engineer on our team.

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- He...
- Which means what? What does an engineer do?

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Well, the engineer
is responsible for

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anything that
we have to build or destroy,

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or... he's responsible for
movement of all our equipment,

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accountability for
all our equipment.

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Um, basically he's the
logistics expert on the team.

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So an engineer-— So building
stuff and also, like, blowing stuff up?

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- Yeah.
- Okay, so, but building stuff too

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because I think a lot
of folks don't understand

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- that you guys do all sorts of things.
- Right.

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When we moved into this outpost,

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it was a house,
basically in desert,

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surrounded by barbed-wire fence.

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Within a month,
Rob had built the camp.

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♪ This ain't no world
for the weary eyed

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♪ This ain't no game
for the foolish child

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♪ This ain't no place

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♪ Got to fall in line

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- ♪ Gone awry...
- He did everything from install the protective barriers

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to running electricity
for the house,

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repairing generators.

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He was literally working
until he went to bed.

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He'd wake up in the middle of the
night to play some online poker,

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go back to sleep,
wake up in the morning,

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still in his AC-Which
and his boots,

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ready to work in the morning
with a smile on his face.

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We thought it appropriate
to name the camp after him

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since he did so much
of that work on his own.

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We've been kinda holding
off on this one a little bit,

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but let's talk about
Rob and about that day.

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Yeah, it's a difficult
subject to talk about,

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but any questions you want
answered, you want to...

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find out about it, I'm more
than happy to talk about it.

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Bring us-— Let's
walk through that day.

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We drove out there,

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in an area
we've never been before.

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There was the makings
of a small village

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and so we stopped.

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My gunner, he had told me that he
saw somebody on top of the roof,

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somebody who was
wearing all black.

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And he had an AK, and he was
running around on top of the roof.

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The compound
directly to your North,

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we have one individual
up on the roof.

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And he had seen people

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maneuvering towards
his building,

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and he was sporadically
firing his weapon

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from off the top of the roof.

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And they started moving aerial
assets over to our location.

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My team Sergeant,

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he said "I've been shot,"
you know "Man down, eagle down."

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Eagle down!

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I directed my medic

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to maneuver up to the building
where we thought that he was.

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And I looked over to my right

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and I saw my Senior Charlie
at the time, Rob.

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He was laying on his back.

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I just remember reaching
around the corner

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and grabbing the strap
on his kit,

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and pulling him around
the corner of the building.

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It was crazy
because he looked...

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Other than the fact
that he was unconscious,

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he looked like
nothing was wrong with him.

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And then I looked on his helmet,

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and there was a... uh, an
entry mark on the helmet

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basically the round
and pierced his helmet.

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The individual who
shot at Rob and Don,

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he was the battalion commander

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for all of al-Qaeda
in that area.

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So I pulled back the Iraqis

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and we used an F16

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to do a couple runs
on this objective.

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00:19:00,764 --> 00:19:04,234
- When you heard, what, uh...
- I was devastated.

251
00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:08,569
Um, yeah, you know,
it hits deep your heart.

252
00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:11,529
I've been able to, uh...
To work pretty closely

253
00:19:11,733 --> 00:19:13,701
-with Rob's family,

254
00:19:13,902 --> 00:19:17,907
and I'm gonna, uh,
build, you know...

255
00:19:18,073 --> 00:19:21,623
With the loss of Rob,
be able to build together

256
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,000
and help each other, you know.

257
00:19:24,204 --> 00:19:26,127
They feel a great
loss for their son,

258
00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:29,801
and my wife and I, we feel a
great loss for... for a friend.

259
00:19:50,272 --> 00:19:52,366
The next big mission
that happened

260
00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:55,115
after Staff Sergeant
Rob Pirelli was killed

261
00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:59,119
was a mission slated
for 9/11 time frame.

262
00:20:00,449 --> 00:20:02,042
The men that I was with
were going out

263
00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:04,370
and raiding houses

264
00:20:04,578 --> 00:20:07,047
and going after targets
and going after targets

265
00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:08,407
and going after more targets.

266
00:20:08,498 --> 00:20:10,967
- It's a big one, huh?
- That's gonna be a big one.

267
00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:13,091
It's gonna be a lot of assets.

268
00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:17,175
It's gonna be going on two-—
From 2300 to 1400 the next day.

269
00:20:17,382 --> 00:20:20,010
It's gonna be
a lot of stuff going on.

270
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:23,723
- A lot of bad guys out there?
- Hopefully.

271
00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:25,308
Maybe not after we're done.

272
00:20:33,690 --> 00:20:37,069
We've got
approximately 24 total vehicles

273
00:20:37,277 --> 00:20:39,325
- going to get this objective.
- Okay, Roger.

274
00:20:39,529 --> 00:20:41,329
There were multiple
ODAs on this ODAs,

275
00:20:41,365 --> 00:20:43,333
and I was to be a
part of Assault Force 4

276
00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:45,620
in ODA 0-9-ODAs vehicle.

277
00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:56,634
The men of 0-9-4
were serious gunners

278
00:20:56,838 --> 00:20:59,057
and their motto was "machs gut,"

279
00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:01,135
a saying from a German
sniper in World War II

280
00:21:01,343 --> 00:21:03,596
meaning "make it right."

281
00:21:06,181 --> 00:21:08,058
And that's what 0-9-4
was all about,

282
00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,894
getting it done.

283
00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,196
At this time, I'm located

284
00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:16,075
just to the east of that mosque
we were talking about, over.

285
00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:18,118
Okay, Roger, at this time,

286
00:21:18,318 --> 00:21:22,198
we're gonna start systematically
clearing this objective.

287
00:21:22,406 --> 00:21:25,125
Move! Move!

288
00:21:25,325 --> 00:21:27,202
Go, go, go, get in there.

289
00:21:27,369 --> 00:21:30,418
- Let's go, let's go, let's go.
- That's it!

290
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,374
Watch your six.

291
00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:34,919
- Hey, that's it!
- Sir, we got two.

292
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:36,127
Let's get out of here.

293
00:21:40,882 --> 00:21:43,135
It's more like the one
guy we wanted too.

294
00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,365
There were insurgents
that had squirted out

295
00:21:47,389 --> 00:21:50,233
from some of these targets and they
were hunkering in a palm grove.

296
00:21:50,392 --> 00:21:52,190
The aircraft overhead
thought that

297
00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:54,271
they were digging up
weapons caches

298
00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:55,856
and things like that.

299
00:21:56,064 --> 00:21:58,237
The next morning,
the Green Beret's called in

300
00:21:58,442 --> 00:21:59,944
and used air strikes.

301
00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:01,796
Is that cache
right around the area

302
00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:04,073
where they were low-calling
and shit too, you think?

303
00:22:04,281 --> 00:22:06,750
Yeah, there's six of them now.

304
00:22:06,908 --> 00:22:08,205
Six?

305
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:13,340
Yeah.

306
00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:17,298
And he met up with his buddies.

307
00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:22,637
There he is.
You spot him?

308
00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:32,602
Okay, Roger, did your call
at 4 to 10 seconds now.

309
00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:34,315
He's got it cleared hot.

310
00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:36,613
Agent 3-3 Bubba 0-4.

311
00:22:36,813 --> 00:22:40,158
I have visual on four
at this time... men target, over.

312
00:22:45,447 --> 00:22:47,120
Fuck yeah!

313
00:22:48,408 --> 00:22:51,252
4-1-1 Bubba 0-4,
good hits and...

314
00:23:01,004 --> 00:23:02,472
- Yeah!
- You ready?

315
00:23:15,602 --> 00:23:17,330
It was like a
modern day cavalry charge

316
00:23:17,354 --> 00:23:19,231
through this
dried-out lake bed

317
00:23:19,439 --> 00:23:20,986
in these deep ODAs.

318
00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:22,822
We've got still
two up ahead on the left.

319
00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:24,702
What is that?

320
00:23:34,579 --> 00:23:36,516
- They're up. Pick up the speed.
- We got it, Chief.

321
00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:38,167
Did you see where he came from?

322
00:23:38,333 --> 00:23:40,506
Negative! I did not see where
he came from directly.

323
00:23:40,669 --> 00:23:42,421
I just know from the left side.

324
00:23:46,550 --> 00:23:48,018
We got two up ahead,
two on the left.

325
00:23:48,218 --> 00:23:49,891
We got scouts
who can fucking shoot.

326
00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:51,893
Shoot! Shoot the...

327
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:54,577
- - There was a
moment where we were under fire

328
00:23:54,724 --> 00:23:56,317
where I had to make a decision.

329
00:23:56,518 --> 00:23:59,488
Do I stay a journalist
or do I cross the line?

330
00:23:59,688 --> 00:24:04,239
Because the gunner, Bubba,
up above me with the 50 cal.,

331
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:05,865
he was out of ammo.

332
00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:10,373
- What?
- Get the 50 cal.

333
00:24:12,576 --> 00:24:16,206
I took a breath and said, Okay, Chad,
you know, throw me your knife.

334
00:24:20,584 --> 00:24:22,645
I'll open
the strap on the ammo can.

335
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:24,216
I'll put the camera down

336
00:24:24,421 --> 00:24:26,173
because there was nobody else.

337
00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:31,932
I don't think in that moment
it made me a combatant.

338
00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:35,107
I don't think I necessarily crossed
the line Journalistically.

339
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:37,275
Had you thought through
that moment before?

340
00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:39,370
Or was it one of those things
that you just said,

341
00:24:39,394 --> 00:24:41,317
if it comes,
it comes and I'll...

342
00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:44,650
There becomes a moment when you might
have to check your moral compass

343
00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:47,407
and your gut, and figure out
what's the right thing to do.

344
00:24:47,569 --> 00:24:50,914
And in my career,
there's been moments where...

345
00:24:51,114 --> 00:24:53,742
is it the reporter thing
or is it the human thing?

346
00:24:53,950 --> 00:24:55,543
And I think in times like that,

347
00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:57,417
the human thing
needs to win out.

348
00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:15,438
How old are you?

349
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:17,157
There were four of 'em
that we did catch

350
00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,560
and we conducted some tests

351
00:25:19,768 --> 00:25:22,487
to determine whether or not
they were actually the culprits,

352
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:24,109
they guys that had fired at us.

353
00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:25,691
After the test results
came back,

354
00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:29,119
we knew that they were
the four guys that we wanted.

355
00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:32,948
Positive, positive,
positive, positive.

356
00:25:39,246 --> 00:25:42,375
So would they be considered
snipers or pretty good shots?

357
00:25:42,582 --> 00:25:44,334
I know one of them
got the truck.

358
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:46,295
They had a sniper out there

359
00:25:46,503 --> 00:25:48,551
and they...
We did receive fire,

360
00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,678
a few, uh, rounds

361
00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:52,962
flew over our head and other
vehicle that you were in

362
00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:55,474
got shot up and a round actually
pierced the armor there.

363
00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:08,534
During that mission, there had
been a lull in the firefight

364
00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:10,861
after the feeding
of the ammo and all of that.

365
00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:13,288
I had asked if I could
get out of the vehicle

366
00:26:13,488 --> 00:26:15,286
and crawl up
on top of the vehicle

367
00:26:15,490 --> 00:26:18,664
to get some... some
panoramic shots,

368
00:26:18,868 --> 00:26:20,996
some wide shots
outside of the vehicle.

369
00:26:21,204 --> 00:26:24,674
And while I was up there,
stuff started happening again.

370
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:27,632
So I jumped off
the roof of the vehicle...

371
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:29,554
Had a very hard landing,

372
00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:31,882
uh, busted my ankle
and busted my wrist.

373
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,180
Something was wrong.
I knew that I had hurt myself

374
00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:36,682
and hurt myself badly, but...

375
00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:38,939
I tried to fake that I was fine.

376
00:26:39,139 --> 00:26:41,107
I didn't want to get sent home.

377
00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:44,107
I wanted to keep
getting the story.

378
00:26:44,311 --> 00:26:47,406
And so I kept faking...
Trying to fake that I was fine.

379
00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:48,732
It got to the point where

380
00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:50,863
I couldn't go
on air assaults anymore.

381
00:26:51,067 --> 00:26:53,240
I couldn't even
put weight on the foot.

382
00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:56,039
And, uh, so it was
time for me to go home.

383
00:27:25,644 --> 00:27:28,113
Operational Detachment
Alpha 0-7-2,

384
00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:29,906
they did their team photo

385
00:27:30,106 --> 00:27:32,450
standing in front of
the Pirelli wall.

386
00:27:32,651 --> 00:27:34,449
And it was that team photo

387
00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:37,247
I brought to Rob's dad,

388
00:27:37,405 --> 00:27:38,998
Bob Pirelli.

389
00:27:41,951 --> 00:27:43,828
Above you are three C-1-30s,

390
00:27:44,037 --> 00:27:46,665
approaching the drop zone
with over 174

391
00:27:46,873 --> 00:27:49,501
lethal and highly motivated
paratroopers on board.

392
00:27:49,709 --> 00:27:51,086
The aircraft are flying in.

393
00:27:51,252 --> 00:27:52,504
Oh, look, guys.

394
00:27:52,712 --> 00:27:54,931
He said how much
you built the place up.

395
00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:57,684
Well, when you heard about
this, what did you think?

396
00:27:57,884 --> 00:28:00,103
Well, when I heard about it,

397
00:28:00,303 --> 00:28:02,431
I thought it was nice.
I mean, I said, you know...

398
00:28:02,597 --> 00:28:06,101
But when I actually saw it,
physically saw the design

399
00:28:06,267 --> 00:28:07,578
they had... they had...
They had done,

400
00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:12,358
and I really get the sense
they... they really did, uh,

401
00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:15,068
officially name the outpost
with his name.

402
00:28:15,276 --> 00:28:19,406
And to see the actual drawing
on the side of the wall...

403
00:28:19,614 --> 00:28:21,582
And also, I think,
not only that,

404
00:28:21,783 --> 00:28:23,660
I think seeing it
on a soldier's arm...

405
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:26,667
One of the soldiers
had the insignia done.

406
00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:28,418
- And, um...
- Tattooed?

407
00:28:28,623 --> 00:28:30,309
- Tattooed to his arm.
- Tattooed to his arm.

408
00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:33,132
That type of love
for each other,

409
00:28:33,294 --> 00:28:36,969
we need them
because they're him.

410
00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:38,634
You know, they're part of him.

411
00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:42,312
You know, them being around
makes a big difference to us.

412
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:10,666
Well, this is the
basement and this is Rob's room.

413
00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:12,309
And that's what I call it,
Rob's room,

414
00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:14,677
because I turned around
and I decorated for Rob

415
00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:16,300
and all his things.

416
00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:18,848
It's a memorial for Rob.

417
00:29:21,801 --> 00:29:24,645
This here is a picture
of Rob's unit,

418
00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:26,598
one of them anyways.

419
00:29:26,806 --> 00:29:29,229
I remember him
calling me one time

420
00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:31,687
because I work in constructions

421
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,647
and electrical construction.

422
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:34,855
And he called me one time

423
00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:37,450
to ask me how to
wire something out there.

424
00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:39,072
And they wire differently...

425
00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:41,637
Their schematics are different
than our schematics, anyways.

426
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:44,033
So even if I told him
that green was ground,

427
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,413
he says, "The wires
over here are orange.

428
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,040
What do I do?" You know.

429
00:29:48,244 --> 00:29:50,347
So he figured out... He figured
everything out himself, so yeah.

430
00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:52,544
And they all turn around
and they say that,

431
00:29:52,749 --> 00:29:54,717
the Pirelli outpost,
Rob built most of it

432
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:56,799
and I'm sure he did.

433
00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:00,056
Rob loved hockey.

434
00:30:00,256 --> 00:30:03,430
Can you tell by the cups and all
that he loved the Avalanches?

435
00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:06,730
And these are some
of the players that he liked.

436
00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:08,936
We buried him
with his hockey stick

437
00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:11,108
and we buried him
with his number 18,

438
00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:13,983
his Hockey shirt from Franklin.

439
00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:17,566
And that went with him.

440
00:30:21,444 --> 00:30:24,914
My dad always said,
to really get to know Rob

441
00:30:25,073 --> 00:30:26,746
you needed to go
to the places he went,

442
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:29,078
experience what he loved

443
00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:31,083
and see the things he built.

444
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,419
'Hey.
- Hey, buddy, good to see you

445
00:30:33,581 --> 00:30:35,021
- You too, Shawn.
- How's everything?

446
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:36,888
- Uh, it's going, it's going.
- Good, good.

447
00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,445
- How you doing?
"Good, good, good.

448
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:39,762
Since Sunday, we've...

449
00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,182
You guys went to state, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

450
00:30:42,382 --> 00:30:44,726
- That was awesome. Overtime?
- Yeah, double overtime.

451
00:30:44,926 --> 00:30:46,849
- That's awesome.
- Yeah, it was a great game.

452
00:30:47,053 --> 00:30:48,555
I can imagine.
That's the first time.

453
00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:50,356
Yeah, in 33 years.

454
00:30:52,016 --> 00:30:53,814
He came from a hockey town.

455
00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:55,315
He came from a hockey family.

456
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:56,897
For dad, he was proud of Rob.

457
00:30:57,105 --> 00:30:58,948
You heard that
when he announced the games.

458
00:30:59,148 --> 00:31:00,866
He started announcing
because of Rob.

459
00:31:01,067 --> 00:31:03,695
You got 6 seconds
left, 41.6 seconds left

460
00:31:03,903 --> 00:31:06,281
in the second period.
One-one deadlocked,

461
00:31:06,447 --> 00:31:07,949
a great game.

462
00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:11,711
You're treated to one of the
best games of the year, here.

463
00:31:11,911 --> 00:31:14,790
And every time that Rob
touched the puck,

464
00:31:14,956 --> 00:31:18,506
it was... you hear him yelling,
like, "Pirelli's got the puck!

465
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:20,758
Pirelli! Pirelli's got it!
He's gonna score!"

466
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,715
It was... it was... you know,
everybody else was like,

467
00:31:23,923 --> 00:31:26,392
"Here comes Speducio,
Speducio shoots, shoots, save,"

468
00:31:26,593 --> 00:31:28,140
but when Rob touched the puck,

469
00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:30,852
it was... you felt it,
you felt his passion.

470
00:31:31,055 --> 00:31:33,433
Back up to Pirelli,
Pirelli on the left side.

471
00:31:33,641 --> 00:31:35,119
Pirelli fighting for
the puck on Speducio.

472
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:37,441
He's looking down
the wrong way and...

473
00:31:39,355 --> 00:31:40,902
He's gonna have a break-away!

474
00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:42,905
Will it hit? Oh, no!

475
00:31:43,109 --> 00:31:45,828
Aww, on an open net.
He missed an open net.

476
00:31:45,987 --> 00:31:49,787
He made a beautiful move
and he misses the net.

477
00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:51,493
He wants Rob to score so badly

478
00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:53,081
because he wants
to announce this.

479
00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:54,708
He wants to announce
to the world

480
00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,711
that, like, Rob just scored.

481
00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,667
Everything...

482
00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:01,298
Pirelli, I don't know how
he ever missed it,

483
00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:03,846
but regardless...

484
00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:07,760
Dad wanted to see
that... that outpost.

485
00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:10,345
That was something
that he, um...

486
00:32:10,511 --> 00:32:11,871
I know he talked about
every day...

487
00:32:11,971 --> 00:32:14,599
Was seeing and trying
to get to see the outpost

488
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:16,184
before it was destroyed

489
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:18,524
because it was
the last thing he built.

490
00:32:18,686 --> 00:32:20,313
It was the last thing
he touched.

491
00:32:20,521 --> 00:32:22,944
For our family as a whole...

492
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,404
to be able to see
what Rob had built,

493
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:29,740
it may give us
some sort of closure.

494
00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:31,871
It may give us some sort of...

495
00:32:32,909 --> 00:32:35,788
opportunity to say good-bye.

496
00:32:35,995 --> 00:32:38,965
It may give us another opportunity
to meet Rob in a way.

497
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:50,310
Rob's dad had shared with me

498
00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:52,979
that he was talking to his
Congressman in Massachusetts

499
00:32:53,179 --> 00:32:55,056
to try to go into the war zone

500
00:32:55,264 --> 00:32:57,608
because he wanted to see
the combat outpost...

501
00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,356
The house that his son
had built.

502
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,734
And there was no way
that the Congressman

503
00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:05,909
or anybody in the government
was going to let, uh,

504
00:33:06,109 --> 00:33:08,612
somebody go over
and do something like that,

505
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:09,912
or hopefully not.

506
00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:11,740
So he made me promise

507
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:13,384
that I would try to get
back over there

508
00:33:13,408 --> 00:33:16,252
and let him know that his son's
outpost was still there,

509
00:33:16,411 --> 00:33:18,664
that his son hadn't
been forgotten over there.

510
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,965
The Green Beret's 10th
Special Forces Group,

511
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:08,297
they knew that I was
planning to go back

512
00:34:08,504 --> 00:34:11,132
to Iraq with them when they
re-deployed for the second year.

513
00:34:11,299 --> 00:34:13,597
They also knew
that I was injured

514
00:34:13,801 --> 00:34:15,195
and that I had to
come back from the injury

515
00:34:15,219 --> 00:34:17,938
and I would have to prove myself
to them on that one, as well.

516
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:22,732
I was back with the serious
gunners of ODA 0-9-4.

517
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:25,905
The "machs gut" guys
who get it done.

518
00:34:26,105 --> 00:34:27,448
- You guys ready?
- Yeah!

519
00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:29,528
All right, on you,
all right, here we go, dudes.

520
00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,628
They invited me to
go through their shoot house

521
00:34:31,652 --> 00:34:33,074
with live fire.

522
00:34:43,998 --> 00:34:46,000
Stay in the room!

523
00:35:00,181 --> 00:35:02,400
Hey, what do you guys got?

524
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:06,070
We bypassed a pool door
on the right in the beginning.

525
00:35:06,270 --> 00:35:08,693
We got a team who's checking it.

526
00:35:08,898 --> 00:35:11,697
Hey, what do you want
for direction of movement?

527
00:35:11,901 --> 00:35:13,448
Where we going, sir?

528
00:35:13,653 --> 00:35:15,621
To the left and back that way.

529
00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:18,325
All right, ready?
All right! Go.

530
00:35:18,533 --> 00:35:21,252
- - Hey, remember,
it's a shotgun door!

531
00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:22,829
Everybody! Hey!

532
00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:26,382
- - Hey, everybody...
There's a closed door on the right.

533
00:35:26,582 --> 00:35:28,050
Closed door, right!

534
00:35:29,877 --> 00:35:31,299
- Everybody good?
- Good.

535
00:35:31,504 --> 00:35:34,053
- Oh, why is that door shut?
- We're moving right behind...

536
00:35:34,257 --> 00:35:35,850
We're moving.

537
00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:37,643
All right,
let's go... let's go.

538
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:39,471
Ready? Everybody up?
Let's go.

539
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:51,736
After this training,

540
00:35:51,899 --> 00:35:54,402
I'd been invited
to climb Mt. Rainier

541
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,453
with wounded Special Operators.

542
00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:58,656
This would be the final test

543
00:35:58,865 --> 00:36:03,245
to prove that...
That the ankle was back

544
00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:05,288
and that I could hack it.

545
00:36:09,083 --> 00:36:11,051
On the rope line in front of me

546
00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:14,005
was blind Navy Seal, Lion Joe,

547
00:36:14,213 --> 00:36:17,433
who if you remember
in the American Sniper movie,

548
00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:22,104
he was the one who had been shot
in the face on that rooftop...

549
00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:29,442
And a marine recon scout
who had also been blinded,

550
00:36:29,604 --> 00:36:32,858
and an army soldier
who had lost his legs,

551
00:36:33,065 --> 00:36:38,287
and a ranger who had served in Somalia
in the Black Hawk Down mission,

552
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:40,289
Kenny Thomas.

553
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:45,458
And at more than 14,000 feet
at the top of this volcano...

554
00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:50,167
the lesson that I learned
from these Special Operators...

555
00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:52,718
From these wounded warrior
Special Operators,

556
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:54,592
you don't quit.

557
00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,799
And it was that moment that
I was able to prove to myself

558
00:36:58,007 --> 00:36:59,509
that I was back from the injury

559
00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:01,435
and that it was time
to get back to Iraq.

560
00:37:10,478 --> 00:37:12,598
Neither one of you
have ever heard this story.

561
00:37:12,730 --> 00:37:14,152
I'm sure we haven't.

562
00:37:14,315 --> 00:37:16,363
The last Christmas
that Rob was here,

563
00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:20,447
which was, um, 2006,

564
00:37:20,655 --> 00:37:22,828
we went up to Uncle Ralph's
as we always do.

565
00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:25,592
- We go up to Uncle Ralph's for Christmas Eve...
- Christmas Eve.

566
00:37:30,706 --> 00:37:33,175
And opened all the presents.

567
00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:35,052
We do what we always do.

568
00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:38,177
You and dad left early,
and Rob and I stayed.

569
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,842
- Tara, what are you looking at?
- Cosette?

570
00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:44,019
- Robbie.
- Robbie?

571
00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:46,689
When Rob decided
he wanted to leave,

572
00:37:46,889 --> 00:37:49,267
we got in the car
and left Uncle Ralph's.

573
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:53,897
We were driving home
and it was the moments

574
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:57,075
that Rob confided in me
for the first time.

575
00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,324
It was one of those times
where he just let it all out.

576
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:04,240
And he told me that

577
00:38:04,490 --> 00:38:07,289
he wasn't necessarily
planning on coming home.

578
00:38:07,493 --> 00:38:10,212
Oh, from Iraq, okay.

579
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:13,170
So he had an idea in 2006
that he wouldn't be home.

580
00:38:13,374 --> 00:38:14,671
You know Rob.

581
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:16,752
It doesn't surprise me,
but I didn't...

582
00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:20,306
As a mother, he ain't gonna confide
in me all that stuff anyways,

583
00:38:20,506 --> 00:38:22,224
but I did not know that.

584
00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:24,644
I can remember the last time...

585
00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,598
I dropped at the airport.
I saw him that Christmas.

586
00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:31,776
And he says, "You don't
have to hug me."

587
00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:34,104
Until this day, I wish I did.

588
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,155
Well, you don't know.

589
00:38:36,355 --> 00:38:38,232
No, you don't.
You really don't.

590
00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:48,080
It is what it is.

591
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,717
- All right, Bill.
- See you.

592
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,269
Did you have
any idea at that point

593
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:12,271
how you were gonna figure out

594
00:39:12,475 --> 00:39:13,772
how to get there?

595
00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,776
No, I knew I was going
to do whatever it took.

596
00:39:26,238 --> 00:39:28,438
- Oh, there's somebody I know.
- Hey, what's up?

597
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,920
When I re-deployed
with them again,

598
00:39:36,123 --> 00:39:39,343
Rob's team was in
a completely different location

599
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:42,046
very far from
Combat Outpost Pirelli.

600
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:10,325
My team we're the elite
unit down here in this province.

601
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,161
We're here to bring
credibility and legitimacy

602
00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:15,246
the Iraqi Security Forces.

603
00:40:15,454 --> 00:40:17,015
- How do you do that?
- Once we get here,

604
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:19,337
we have to identify
a fit partner,

605
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,260
foreign internal
defense partner.

606
00:40:21,460 --> 00:40:24,384
And the party that we identified
is the an-Nasiriyah SWAT

607
00:40:24,588 --> 00:40:26,090
Special Weapons Attack team.

608
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:29,184
So we had to select
those operators

609
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:32,347
that we felt would be
effective in this area

610
00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:35,517
in order to set the conditions
for sustainable security.

611
00:40:35,724 --> 00:40:37,977
Everybody, this on you,

612
00:40:38,185 --> 00:40:39,653
knock out ten push ups...

613
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:43,700
and then we take a break.

614
00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:45,485
I'm not gonna count for you,

615
00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:47,741
but, you know, if you only
do two, that's on you.

616
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:50,824
You're not getting any stronger.

617
00:40:51,031 --> 00:40:53,454
Okay, so...

618
00:41:03,502 --> 00:41:05,550
They can do multiple
sets of that as well.

619
00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:11,428
This rotation in an-Nasiriyah
did not get large scale

620
00:41:11,635 --> 00:41:13,103
for on-surge operations.

621
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:17,525
We're leaving those type of operations
up to the Iraqi Security Forces.

622
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:20,274
So, you know, the IPs are gonna
do it, the IA are gonna do it.

623
00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:23,573
I think that's
a sign of progress.

624
00:41:23,772 --> 00:41:25,615
I think that's what
we should be doing.

625
00:41:34,116 --> 00:41:36,414
'Ready, guys?
- Yeah! Up!

626
00:41:37,745 --> 00:41:38,871
Keep it up!

627
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:46,428
Up!

628
00:41:48,214 --> 00:41:49,591
Ahh.

629
00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:01,318
Oh my god, we're doing an excellent
job of teaching jumping jacks.

630
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:03,237
The excitement and the fun

631
00:42:03,437 --> 00:42:05,405
and you know the things
that they signed up...

632
00:42:05,606 --> 00:42:08,951
- The adrenaline stuff?
- To do or their kind doing,

633
00:42:09,109 --> 00:42:11,111
is kind of going
by the wayside a little bit,

634
00:42:11,278 --> 00:42:15,033
but everybody understands
that that is where we should be,

635
00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:16,538
and that's a good thing.

636
00:42:26,710 --> 00:42:30,260
So difference between
last year and this year?

637
00:42:30,464 --> 00:42:34,344
Last year we had
to walk 500 meters

638
00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:37,021
to go take a shower,

639
00:42:37,221 --> 00:42:41,021
and we were going to the bathroom
in a hole that I dug in the ground.

640
00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:45,025
And this year, I have people
wash and fold my laundry.

641
00:42:45,229 --> 00:42:47,277
Completely different
from last deployment.

642
00:42:49,441 --> 00:42:52,069
Honestly, there's times
where this deployment,

643
00:42:52,278 --> 00:42:55,407
I'd say, man, I wish we were back
up at, you know, COP Pirelli

644
00:42:55,614 --> 00:42:58,834
because... I mean, I definitely
miss Rob every day.

645
00:43:00,619 --> 00:43:02,371
I'd like to go back up.

646
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:05,129
And it'd just be interesting
to see what it's evolved into,

647
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:07,551
and just kinda go
back through some memories

648
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:09,048
from being out there

649
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,847
and kinda walk
those paths again.

650
00:43:38,741 --> 00:43:41,039
When Rob had passed,

651
00:43:41,201 --> 00:43:46,503
my dad, he would go down
to the coffee shop

652
00:43:46,707 --> 00:43:50,052
and grab a coffee
for himself also for Rob.

653
00:43:56,508 --> 00:43:58,977
He would come down
to the cemetery...

654
00:44:00,220 --> 00:44:04,270
and it would be his chance
to sit and talk with Rob.

655
00:44:09,688 --> 00:44:11,531
He would park his car.

656
00:44:11,732 --> 00:44:13,575
He would have a pin in his car

657
00:44:13,776 --> 00:44:15,744
where Rob's picture would be.

658
00:44:20,741 --> 00:44:22,664
And he would walk up

659
00:44:22,868 --> 00:44:25,371
to Rob's resting place...

660
00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,824
and he would take a pin
and poke Rob's coffee.

661
00:45:03,450 --> 00:45:06,670
And as it was dripping out,

662
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:11,376
he would drink
his coffee with Rob.

663
00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:18,632
That was...
That was their time together.

664
00:45:23,804 --> 00:45:29,152
My father passed away
on September 11th, 2012.

665
00:45:29,351 --> 00:45:33,731
He was really sick
and in a hard place,

666
00:45:33,939 --> 00:45:36,863
but he knew it was... okay

667
00:45:37,067 --> 00:45:38,660
because he was gonna
see his son again.

668
00:45:38,819 --> 00:45:42,119
We wanted to have him

669
00:45:42,322 --> 00:45:44,745
buried as close
as we could to Rob

670
00:45:44,950 --> 00:45:47,453
and we know that's what
he would have wanted,

671
00:45:47,661 --> 00:45:49,789
so we made that happen.

672
00:46:02,676 --> 00:46:06,101
Tim, the medic,
who had tried to save

673
00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:08,865
his Green Beret brother and help
him breathe his last breathes...

674
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:14,401
wanted to know that the
place that Rob had built...

675
00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:16,699
He wanted to know
about the changes there,

676
00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:20,199
but the military P.A.O.s
had said that my...

677
00:46:20,402 --> 00:46:23,622
My embed was with
10th Special Forces Group

678
00:46:23,822 --> 00:46:26,041
and was not with
1st Special Forces Group,

679
00:46:26,241 --> 00:46:27,584
which was now located

680
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:30,664
where Combat Outpost Pirelli
was in Diyala province.

681
00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:32,714
They denied my request.

682
00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:35,672
So to get there,
I'd have to hitchhike

683
00:46:35,876 --> 00:46:37,719
from Special Forces
A Team to A Team

684
00:46:37,878 --> 00:46:40,631
more than 300 miles
around the war zone.

685
00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:46,767
From an-Nasiriyah
it was to Hilla.

686
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:52,022
From there, went to
Baghdad to area four,

687
00:46:52,226 --> 00:46:54,695
which was the secret location

688
00:46:54,895 --> 00:46:56,818
where those serious gunners

689
00:46:57,022 --> 00:47:00,151
of ODA 0-9-4 were going out
and doing missions.

690
00:47:09,326 --> 00:47:11,328
- Alex!
- What?

691
00:47:11,537 --> 00:47:13,414
- Stay out here.
- Who said?

692
00:47:14,706 --> 00:47:16,583
All clear!

693
00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:25,930
Put these guys on the roof.

694
00:47:42,609 --> 00:47:44,452
All right, step in there, Alex.

695
00:47:46,113 --> 00:47:47,581
What was that?

696
00:47:48,615 --> 00:47:50,333
- He's a free worker.
- What does he do?

697
00:47:57,332 --> 00:47:59,050
Yes.

698
00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:17,477
The one's too young.

699
00:48:17,644 --> 00:48:19,612
But the other one might
be old enough to be him.

700
00:48:19,813 --> 00:48:21,133
Do you have
a first name, Hussein?

701
00:48:21,273 --> 00:48:22,525
Robert.

702
00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:25,077
Pull those detainees
and go down out of the element.

703
00:48:25,277 --> 00:48:27,357
Have the source take a look
at both those jack-asses.

704
00:48:27,404 --> 00:48:28,872
- Okay. Hey, Bob!
- Yeah.

705
00:48:29,072 --> 00:48:30,995
I'm gonna need you and Ranger
in about 3 minutes.

706
00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:32,826
- Ali Abu...
- Bob, you move with...

707
00:48:34,494 --> 00:48:36,997
- Haruz, let's go, brother.
- Ranger

708
00:48:44,046 --> 00:48:47,926
Did you actually
plot a course in your own mind?

709
00:48:48,133 --> 00:48:51,012
If this didn't work out,
you could sense an adjust,

710
00:48:51,219 --> 00:48:52,989
and you knew somewhere
else that you could try?

711
00:48:53,013 --> 00:48:55,562
Is that what... Is that sort
of how you approached it?

712
00:48:58,518 --> 00:48:59,986
I always hope for the best.

713
00:49:00,187 --> 00:49:02,861
Um, expect the worst
and plan accordingly.

714
00:49:03,023 --> 00:49:06,323
And I always hope
that logic will prevail

715
00:49:06,526 --> 00:49:08,369
and people will... will...

716
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:11,873
Will... will maybe have a soft spot
get what it is that I was doing,

717
00:49:12,032 --> 00:49:14,205
but, uh, no.

718
00:49:14,409 --> 00:49:18,789
From there, it was to Camp Taji.

719
00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:31,412
What's the deal
with this bad guy?

720
00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:33,596
Oh, we got
a warrant for his arrest.

721
00:49:33,804 --> 00:49:35,772
It's a Baghdad warrant.

722
00:49:35,973 --> 00:49:37,816
He was an AQI member.

723
00:49:38,016 --> 00:49:39,233
Mostly what he's wanted for

724
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:41,942
is the murder of
other Iraqi members,

725
00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:44,147
mostly another clan.

726
00:49:44,356 --> 00:49:48,907
His tribe is very large
with I.E.D.s in this area.

727
00:49:49,069 --> 00:49:51,413
What's your name?
You're the RTO?

728
00:49:51,613 --> 00:49:52,956
- Yeah, Roger.
- And I'm Alex.

729
00:49:53,156 --> 00:49:55,156
Okay, I'm gonna be on your
hipper behind you, okay?

730
00:49:55,242 --> 00:49:56,539
Okay.

731
00:50:16,304 --> 00:50:19,023
An Arrow 2-5,
go ahead, it's traffic.

732
00:50:19,224 --> 00:50:20,976
We at this time, we
are supporting Jaguar

733
00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:22,936
on guard.

734
00:50:23,145 --> 00:50:25,614
- Check the friendlies, please.
- Checking the friendlies.

735
00:50:27,482 --> 00:50:29,951
We have six Humvees on the road.

736
00:50:39,244 --> 00:50:42,965
It's about a six
vehicle convoy, over.

737
00:51:14,780 --> 00:51:16,657
Okay.

738
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,177
Okay, will do.

739
00:51:42,015 --> 00:51:45,815
The compound
that is directly above them

740
00:51:46,019 --> 00:51:48,363
to the southeast
is a hostile compound.

741
00:51:48,563 --> 00:51:50,531
They can declare
that area, copy.

742
00:51:53,151 --> 00:51:55,028
All right, go-

743
00:51:55,195 --> 00:51:57,368
Go, go, go,
last man. Last man.

744
00:51:57,531 --> 00:51:59,124
Get out of the hallway.

745
00:52:03,203 --> 00:52:04,921
Medic check.

746
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,999
Hit it with your light.
Will it open?

747
00:52:18,218 --> 00:52:19,640
Go! Go! Go!

748
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:35,494
Sir, these are his cousins.

749
00:52:35,694 --> 00:52:38,072
Round 'em up.
Take 'em outside.

750
00:53:10,937 --> 00:53:13,406
The first house we went to,
the target house,

751
00:53:13,607 --> 00:53:17,077
was the target's house,
his family's house.

752
00:53:17,277 --> 00:53:19,405
He was not at that house.

753
00:53:20,947 --> 00:53:23,050
- We're just searching the house...
- Go, -hmm.

754
00:53:23,074 --> 00:53:24,701
Because this guy
is a high-level leader.

755
00:53:24,910 --> 00:53:27,709
We're looking for
documents, notebooks,

756
00:53:27,913 --> 00:53:29,586
anything that can
lead to the next guys.

757
00:53:29,789 --> 00:53:31,211
We call it a cascading target.

758
00:53:31,416 --> 00:53:33,214
Normally with
high-level terrorists,

759
00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:36,012
they're like code 1-0-4.

760
00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:38,807
It's like the highest
level of crime

761
00:53:38,965 --> 00:53:41,184
in the Iraqi judicial system.

762
00:53:41,384 --> 00:53:45,139
And so this guy was wanted
on a code 1-0-4 warrant.

763
00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:47,979
Why is he a bad guy?
Why do we go after this guy?

764
00:53:48,141 --> 00:53:49,643
Very basic broad strokes.

765
00:53:49,851 --> 00:53:51,853
Yeah, he runs a
terrorist organization.

766
00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:53,359
Which does what?

767
00:53:53,563 --> 00:53:57,067
The big thing he's
pushing for now is I.E.D.s

768
00:53:57,275 --> 00:54:01,121
And the I.E.D. threat has
kinda started up a little again,

769
00:54:01,321 --> 00:54:03,494
- more recently.
- Yeah, I hear in the last

770
00:54:03,698 --> 00:54:05,871
two weeks,
we've had three strikes.

771
00:54:06,076 --> 00:54:09,330
And that coincides with
being released from prison.

772
00:54:09,537 --> 00:54:12,211
- So...
- He had been detained and then got released

773
00:54:12,415 --> 00:54:15,134
and back out on the streets?

774
00:54:15,335 --> 00:54:16,803
Yup.

775
00:54:48,660 --> 00:54:51,083
- Checking for movement.
- Copy.

776
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:53,416
You got two of 'em
staying in the courtyard, there.

777
00:54:53,623 --> 00:54:55,250
- Yeah, I think that's him.
- Copy.

778
00:54:55,458 --> 00:54:57,520
- Are there three?
- Okay, now there are three of them

779
00:54:57,544 --> 00:54:58,670
running in.

780
00:54:58,878 --> 00:55:00,380
One is...
Oh, one's a kid.

781
00:55:00,547 --> 00:55:02,470
- Copy.
- There's another one.

782
00:55:02,674 --> 00:55:05,473
Four, five...
They have all gone

783
00:55:05,677 --> 00:55:07,930
into the door
of the host building

784
00:55:08,138 --> 00:55:10,106
and continuing to watch.

785
00:55:10,307 --> 00:55:12,480
Yeah, make sure you
get ahold of those guys

786
00:55:12,684 --> 00:55:14,231
in that area up there.

787
00:55:14,394 --> 00:55:16,112
Roger, that's a good, copy.

788
00:55:41,254 --> 00:55:42,722
Go, go, go!

789
00:55:45,425 --> 00:55:48,474
Go to the left!
To the left.

790
00:55:50,138 --> 00:55:52,311
- Where'd everyone go?
- Clear!

791
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,408
Go, go, go!

792
00:56:16,956 --> 00:56:18,299
Okay.

793
00:56:44,150 --> 00:56:46,369
He says he doesn't know.

794
00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:29,367
His brother was there.

795
00:57:29,529 --> 00:57:30,621
We have his brother,

796
00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:32,745
a major ARCOM in the I.A.s

797
00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:34,917
We got the story
of where he was at.

798
00:57:35,118 --> 00:57:36,540
They try to lie to 'em,

799
00:57:36,703 --> 00:57:39,377
but it's a lot easier
for the I.A.s

800
00:57:39,581 --> 00:57:41,549
because they speak the language.

801
00:57:48,047 --> 00:57:50,300
Three minutes
ago, we heard one individual

802
00:57:50,508 --> 00:57:52,226
talk to another individual.

803
00:57:52,385 --> 00:57:55,229
That they took the hill coming
toward the other individual.

804
00:57:59,225 --> 00:58:00,727
Search that tree line.

805
00:58:03,313 --> 00:58:04,690
Searching.

806
00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:06,900
I got alight
or something down there.

807
00:58:09,611 --> 00:58:11,329
Get right there.

808
00:58:11,529 --> 00:58:13,247
That's him.

809
00:58:13,406 --> 00:58:15,500
We are tracking
enemy personnel in that area.

810
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:54,198
Look around
for the friendlies, please.

811
00:58:58,284 --> 00:59:00,457
They are
continuing west from there.

812
00:59:05,708 --> 00:59:07,460
All right, he's running.

813
00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:09,296
Let's watch him for a second.

814
00:59:09,504 --> 00:59:12,132
Close to friendlies!
He is 360 meters,

815
00:59:12,340 --> 00:59:13,340
and he's hunkered down.

816
00:59:14,842 --> 00:59:16,890
I follow.
Go, go.

817
00:59:20,265 --> 00:59:25,487
Okay, well, one, two, three, four.

818
00:59:25,645 --> 00:59:27,488
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

819
00:59:38,449 --> 00:59:40,497
So far, it looks
like he's hunkered down.

820
00:59:40,660 --> 00:59:43,504
- I'm checking for movement.
- Copy.

821
00:59:43,705 --> 00:59:46,458
If we get a good shot here,
let's stop and look.

822
01:00:00,513 --> 01:00:02,186
Sir, fire some flares.

823
01:00:02,348 --> 01:00:03,565
See if you can stir him up.

824
01:00:03,766 --> 01:00:05,643
Flares.

825
01:00:08,187 --> 01:00:09,564
There it was.

826
01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:15,071
Okay, we got several movers.
Ah, those look like animals.

827
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:17,030
Hey, there he is.
He's up and forward.

828
01:00:19,657 --> 01:00:20,909
There he is.

829
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:23,557
Came out of the tree
line and ran into that compound.

830
01:00:23,703 --> 01:00:25,705
Copy.

831
01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:40,850
Go, go, go!

832
01:01:55,962 --> 01:01:58,681
We ended up finding him
at his cousin's house,

833
01:01:58,881 --> 01:02:01,680
which was still
on the family's land,

834
01:02:01,884 --> 01:02:05,605
but again the family's land
is about two kilometers wide

835
01:02:05,805 --> 01:02:06,977
in every direction.

836
01:02:07,181 --> 01:02:11,482
That's why we traveled
so many canals and so much land.

837
01:02:15,648 --> 01:02:18,948
- You guys be safe tonight.
- Roger, that's a good, copy,

838
01:02:19,152 --> 01:02:20,529
and we appreciate the word.

839
01:02:20,737 --> 01:02:22,537
Like always, it's great
working with you guys.

840
01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:32,590
I managed to get myself
to Diyala province,

841
01:02:32,790 --> 01:02:37,671
to Bakuba... what had become this
massive Forward Operating Base

842
01:02:37,879 --> 01:02:39,506
Warhorse.

843
01:02:45,094 --> 01:02:48,064
Within Warhorse,
had been the Special Forces

844
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:49,982
Headquarters Compound.

845
01:02:50,183 --> 01:02:53,357
I just boldly walked up
and knocked on their door

846
01:02:53,561 --> 01:02:55,188
at the Special Forces Compound

847
01:02:55,396 --> 01:02:57,740
and said, "Hey, I'm Alex Quade.

848
01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:01,035
I spent time with the... with the
teams that were here last year.

849
01:03:01,235 --> 01:03:03,078
Want to let me in?" And, no.

850
01:03:03,279 --> 01:03:05,702
No, they did
not want to let me in.

851
01:03:05,865 --> 01:03:09,165
So that's when it was...
Okay, plan B.

852
01:03:09,368 --> 01:03:11,996
I'll embed with the conventional
units that are here.

853
01:03:12,205 --> 01:03:14,333
And I will try to
hopscotch my way

854
01:03:14,540 --> 01:03:16,292
from conventional unit
to conventional unit

855
01:03:16,501 --> 01:03:18,469
and just try to
geographically get closer.

856
01:03:18,669 --> 01:03:21,548
Did you have a time limit

857
01:03:21,756 --> 01:03:24,179
that you knew you
were working within

858
01:03:24,383 --> 01:03:27,728
to try to get to
Combat Outpost Pirelli.

859
01:03:27,887 --> 01:03:30,640
No, I was my own person.
I was a freelancer.

860
01:03:30,848 --> 01:03:33,442
I was at my own expense

861
01:03:33,643 --> 01:03:35,145
and unattached with no support

862
01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:36,980
and no camera crew
and no nothing.

863
01:03:37,188 --> 01:03:39,907
So I had all
the time in the world

864
01:03:40,107 --> 01:03:41,654
and that worked to my advantage,

865
01:03:41,859 --> 01:03:44,078
as did being underestimated.

866
01:03:47,824 --> 01:03:49,747
What exactly are we doing today?

867
01:03:49,909 --> 01:03:53,880
We... are going to
look for some caches today

868
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,082
in one of our villages.

869
01:03:56,290 --> 01:03:58,884
Uh, we got some
intel the other day.

870
01:03:59,085 --> 01:04:02,134
There's some possible
cache's out in R.A.O.

871
01:04:02,338 --> 01:04:06,935
So we're gonna jointly
with the E.R.U.

872
01:04:07,134 --> 01:04:09,762
go out there and see
if we can find these things.

873
01:04:09,971 --> 01:04:12,895
So this is pretty much
where we're at nowadays.

874
01:04:13,099 --> 01:04:14,772
Doing operations...
Everything we do.

875
01:04:14,976 --> 01:04:18,276
So we expect to
find in these caches?

876
01:04:18,437 --> 01:04:19,915
Well, everybody else
has been finding them,

877
01:04:19,939 --> 01:04:21,532
- so I hope you find them too.
- Yeah?

878
01:04:21,732 --> 01:04:23,734
If we don't, we're not
gonna look too good.

879
01:04:27,905 --> 01:04:29,703
We call it trash village.

880
01:04:29,907 --> 01:04:32,160
It's a whole town,
lives in nothing but trash.

881
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:38,254
Everything's gonna
build character.

882
01:04:38,457 --> 01:04:41,336
Well, this is a whole lot
of character building today.

883
01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:21,793
Down by the truck?

884
01:05:32,678 --> 01:05:36,808
Bye-bye, bye-bye,
bye-bye, bye-bye.

885
01:06:25,147 --> 01:06:28,777
I managed to get myself
within the vicinity.

886
01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:32,580
Combat Outpost Pirelli
had ended up urban sprawl.

887
01:06:32,738 --> 01:06:35,241
A Forward Operating Base
was growing up around it,

888
01:06:35,408 --> 01:06:37,581
called Cobra.

889
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,418
And they didn't
even realize all that much

890
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:44,174
that there was this secret

891
01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:48,255
Special Forces
A team house in there.

892
01:06:55,469 --> 01:06:59,019
I managed to get myself
embedded with the cavalry unit

893
01:06:59,223 --> 01:07:03,694
that was there, co-located where
Combat Outpost Pirelli was.

894
01:07:03,894 --> 01:07:07,990
And that cavalry unit was from
Alaska, the arctic wolves.

895
01:07:17,283 --> 01:07:21,083
They had just that week
received a coffee maker.

896
01:07:21,287 --> 01:07:23,631
We just got a
coffee pot two weeks ago.

897
01:07:23,831 --> 01:07:25,225
We're getting re-adapted
to the caffeine.

898
01:07:25,249 --> 01:07:28,844
It's gonna be a good clay.

899
01:07:29,045 --> 01:07:31,139
See the major over there?

900
01:07:31,297 --> 01:07:32,799
- He's running the show.
- Hm-hmm.

901
01:07:32,965 --> 01:07:35,093
We're just his
little followers right now,

902
01:07:35,301 --> 01:07:37,019
putting the Iraqi army first.

903
01:07:39,722 --> 01:07:41,599
Most of these guys...
The soldiers...

904
01:07:41,807 --> 01:07:43,775
Personally know
the farmers in here.

905
01:07:43,976 --> 01:07:46,775
So even to come in here
and clear palm groves

906
01:07:46,979 --> 01:07:48,151
it's a social call.

907
01:07:48,314 --> 01:07:50,375
You know, they come in
here and talk to their friends.

908
01:07:50,399 --> 01:07:52,493
We try to enforce, you know,

909
01:07:52,651 --> 01:07:54,129
the fact that they
need to clear this,

910
01:07:54,153 --> 01:07:56,702
but they're like, "Oh, no,
it's my brother, it's my friend.

911
01:07:56,906 --> 01:07:58,078
He's good."

912
01:07:58,282 --> 01:08:01,502
- He might be good, but...
- It's a happy morning gathering.

913
01:08:01,702 --> 01:08:03,545
That's all it...
It's a social call.

914
01:08:03,746 --> 01:08:05,714
Get a few mandarins
while you're at it.

915
01:08:05,915 --> 01:08:08,509
Where do you got to go
hunting for oranges and stuff?

916
01:08:08,709 --> 01:08:10,757
- Yeah, I found a terrorist.
- You did.

917
01:08:10,961 --> 01:08:13,180
- It was right there.
- They were growing on trees.

918
01:08:13,380 --> 01:08:14,940
You pretty much
cut 'em out at the root.

919
01:08:17,176 --> 01:08:18,644
A terrorist...

920
01:08:20,763 --> 01:08:22,231
Has anybody found anything yet?

921
01:08:22,431 --> 01:08:27,904
Any caches? Any signs of...

922
01:08:28,104 --> 01:08:29,856
- No, sir.
- Okay.

923
01:08:30,064 --> 01:08:33,113
- Just let me check.
- You're gonna go see it in the future?

924
01:08:40,699 --> 01:08:42,542
Somebody just hit one.

925
01:08:45,037 --> 01:08:46,880
Get inside the palm grove!

926
01:08:47,081 --> 01:08:49,459
That's a lot of fucking contact.

927
01:08:49,667 --> 01:08:52,546
Hey was that a striker?

928
01:08:55,005 --> 01:08:56,507
And just like that...

929
01:08:56,715 --> 01:08:58,763
Just like that it
changed in an instant,

930
01:08:58,968 --> 01:09:00,891
and we're coming under fire
in the palm grove.

931
01:09:03,347 --> 01:09:07,693
I am less than half a mile away
from Combat Outpost Pirelli

932
01:09:07,893 --> 01:09:09,895
and fulfilling my promise
to Rob's A team

933
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:11,905
and his gold-star family.

934
01:09:12,064 --> 01:09:15,318
I'd come all this way
and this...

935
01:09:15,526 --> 01:09:18,245
This might keep me
from completing that mission?

936
01:09:18,404 --> 01:09:21,999
Hey! So we're moving
back to the vehicles!

937
01:09:22,199 --> 01:09:25,829
- I'll follow you.
- We're moving back to the vehicles now.

938
01:09:26,036 --> 01:09:27,959
We have... Hey, we up, Mo.

939
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:29,808
It's jumped to
the south marked position.

940
01:09:29,832 --> 01:09:33,132
Hey, Gunners be advised, we're
moving out of the palm grove.

941
01:09:33,335 --> 01:09:34,803
Hey, spread out, you guys.

942
01:09:35,004 --> 01:09:36,506
Keep eyes
for fucking trip wires.

943
01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:38,182
Sorry about that.

944
01:09:43,804 --> 01:09:46,557
Hey, keep eyes
to the north also!

945
01:09:49,435 --> 01:09:51,108
Holy fuck.

946
01:09:51,312 --> 01:09:52,939
They are here.

947
01:09:56,817 --> 01:09:59,286
- Right there, you see the smoke?
- Yeah.

948
01:09:59,486 --> 01:10:02,239
- It was in the palm grove.
- Yeah, it was in the palm grove.

949
01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:06,748
Shit!

950
01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:17,088
Hey, let's have this
vehicle move with us.

951
01:10:17,296 --> 01:10:18,296
All right?
Improved cover.

952
01:10:20,090 --> 01:10:22,559
We'll say back off
or these guys up front...

953
01:10:23,802 --> 01:10:25,224
You guys up front...

954
01:10:28,641 --> 01:10:30,609
It's the way it rolls, now.

955
01:10:34,313 --> 01:10:36,156
Ooh, there's
a smoke, right there.

956
01:10:36,315 --> 01:10:38,501
We're moving the strikers
down here for cover, all right?

957
01:10:38,525 --> 01:10:40,243
I'm on your left hip, Baily.

958
01:10:41,278 --> 01:10:44,282
We got two.

959
01:10:44,490 --> 01:10:47,460
There had been an I.U.D.
that was...

960
01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:51,290
We figured out
was made out of 155,

961
01:10:51,497 --> 01:10:53,499
which is an artillery round

962
01:10:53,707 --> 01:10:55,175
and they'd
wrapped it in C-4

963
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:57,424
and added 30 pounds of munitions

964
01:10:57,628 --> 01:11:00,302
to turn it into a wall
above an I.E.D.

965
01:11:00,506 --> 01:11:05,182
One Iraqi civilian was killed
and five were injured.

966
01:11:05,344 --> 01:11:08,518
- Do you consider that a big one?
- About as big as they get.

967
01:11:08,681 --> 01:11:11,230
They'll want
to shake your teeth.

968
01:11:13,143 --> 01:11:15,020
- This is the way
we drove in to get...

969
01:11:15,187 --> 01:11:16,507
To drive to get
to the palm grove.

970
01:11:16,647 --> 01:11:18,208
I'm pretty sure
it was meant for one of us.

971
01:11:18,232 --> 01:11:19,449
They knew we're here.

972
01:11:19,650 --> 01:11:21,903
That's why I think that
it was command detonated

973
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:23,546
because pressure plated...
We would have hit it

974
01:11:23,570 --> 01:11:25,131
- by rolling over it.
- So command detonated

975
01:11:25,155 --> 01:11:27,342
- would mean like a trigger?
- There was a trigger made.

976
01:11:27,366 --> 01:11:29,261
- Somebody watching and trigger manning.
- Exactly.

977
01:11:29,285 --> 01:11:31,708
Our strikers had
been going back and forth

978
01:11:31,912 --> 01:11:34,415
over this area
just 20 minutes earlier.

979
01:11:34,623 --> 01:11:37,251
So these soldiers,
they figured that, well...

980
01:11:37,459 --> 01:11:40,338
Our... the Baily
that were on the strikers

981
01:11:40,546 --> 01:11:42,924
must have been working
to interfere with the signal

982
01:11:43,132 --> 01:11:46,136
that the trigger man for this I.E.D.
must have been putting out.

983
01:11:52,558 --> 01:11:55,562
Once we got back to Cobra,
the FOB that had grown up

984
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:57,822
around Combat Outpost Pirelli,

985
01:11:58,022 --> 01:12:00,901
the cavalry unit
that I'd been with that day

986
01:12:01,066 --> 01:12:03,535
and for the last few days
on these types of missions,

987
01:12:03,736 --> 01:12:06,080
they came to me and they said,

988
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:07,782
they thought that
I'd earned my spurs,

989
01:12:07,990 --> 01:12:09,207
since were a cavalry unit.

990
01:12:09,408 --> 01:12:11,128
And yet they had no spurs
to give out there.

991
01:12:11,243 --> 01:12:15,544
One of the guys reached into his ruck
and pulled out a Ka-bar... a knife.

992
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:18,126
He said, well,
it's blunt, but...

993
01:12:18,334 --> 01:12:20,052
these are your spurs.

994
01:12:20,252 --> 01:12:25,600
With that, I had a Ka-bar now in
my back pocket and it was time.

995
01:12:25,799 --> 01:12:31,147
A 160th SOAR-— Special Operations
Aviation Regiment bird

996
01:12:31,347 --> 01:12:32,690
was coming to pick me up

997
01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:35,268
and their L.Z....
Their Landing Zone...

998
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:37,820
Was inside
Combat Outpost Pirelli.

999
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:40,773
So even though
the Special Forces A-Team there

1000
01:12:40,939 --> 01:12:42,407
didn't want to let me in,

1001
01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:44,986
they had to
if they wanted to get rid of me.

1002
01:12:47,821 --> 01:12:50,199
We made it to the door
and knocked on the door.

1003
01:12:51,617 --> 01:12:53,460
There was no hello.
There was no nothing.

1004
01:12:53,619 --> 01:12:56,919
They let me in so that I
could have my 15 minutes

1005
01:12:57,122 --> 01:13:00,547
as I waited for the bird that was
going to take me back to Baghdad

1006
01:13:00,751 --> 01:13:03,220
and I looked around
to see the changes.

1007
01:13:08,467 --> 01:13:11,516
It was good to see
that what Rob had built

1008
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:13,597
was still there.

1009
01:13:13,806 --> 01:13:18,232
That this rough team house...
Alone on the fringe

1010
01:13:18,435 --> 01:13:20,984
of the empire, as their
Special Forces Commander

1011
01:13:21,146 --> 01:13:22,989
Major Derrick Jones
had called it...

1012
01:13:23,190 --> 01:13:25,363
That it was still a safe house

1013
01:13:25,567 --> 01:13:27,911
being used by
Special Forces Teams

1014
01:13:28,112 --> 01:13:32,367
in an area that had
been an al-Qaeda sanctuary

1015
01:13:32,574 --> 01:13:33,871
near the Iranian border,

1016
01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:37,250
where every day
was a fight for survival.

1017
01:13:38,872 --> 01:13:43,002
It was still here because
Rob and his ODA 0-7-2

1018
01:13:43,168 --> 01:13:45,512
had built it and fortified it.

1019
01:14:01,895 --> 01:14:03,772
I may have only
been on the ground

1020
01:14:03,981 --> 01:14:08,031
inside Combat Outpost Pirelli
for maybe 15 minutes,

1021
01:14:08,193 --> 01:14:09,445
maybe 20...

1022
01:14:11,572 --> 01:14:13,040
but I'd done what they'd asked

1023
01:14:13,198 --> 01:14:14,575
and I was able to let them know

1024
01:14:14,783 --> 01:14:18,378
that Rob's wall...
The T-wall with the symbol

1025
01:14:18,537 --> 01:14:21,086
that says Combat Outpost
Pirelli... was still there.

1026
01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:25,548
Did you ever think to yourself

1027
01:14:25,752 --> 01:14:29,507
what are the odds...
of this working out?

1028
01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:32,389
Pretty low to
non-existent, right?

1029
01:14:35,471 --> 01:14:37,871
There was no way in hell that I
was not gonna get this clone,

1030
01:14:38,056 --> 01:14:40,605
that I was not going to
complete this mission

1031
01:14:40,809 --> 01:14:43,312
for Rob's family,
for Rob's teammates,

1032
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:45,568
because none of these guys quit

1033
01:14:45,772 --> 01:14:48,275
and I wasn't gonna quit either.

1034
01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:07,966
Sunrise or sunset, do you think?

1035
01:15:08,170 --> 01:15:09,888
I think it's a sunset.

1036
01:15:16,553 --> 01:15:18,156
He would be on
the phone talking with

1037
01:15:18,180 --> 01:15:20,241
and then all of a sudden,
he'd have to go up on the roof

1038
01:15:20,265 --> 01:15:23,064
- and do god knows... so this is...
- Keep watch.

1039
01:15:23,268 --> 01:15:25,948
- Yeah, this must be what he had to go through.
- They took turns...

1040
01:15:25,979 --> 01:15:27,652
- Yeah.
- Being up there.

1041
01:15:27,856 --> 01:15:29,779
What he must've
had to go through.

1042
01:15:32,277 --> 01:15:33,437
Oh my gosh.

1043
01:15:33,487 --> 01:15:35,455
- "Keep door closed."
- This is Sparta.

1044
01:15:35,614 --> 01:15:37,582
Get out of town.

1045
01:15:38,617 --> 01:15:40,335
Well, look at that.

1046
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:43,039
For me, it's hard to imagine

1047
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:45,875
that my son had...
Had helped build this.

1048
01:15:46,083 --> 01:15:48,336
It's... because he
did build things,

1049
01:15:48,544 --> 01:15:50,262
but this is...

1050
01:15:50,462 --> 01:15:52,556
it's a lot bigger
than what I thought.

1051
01:15:52,756 --> 01:15:54,556
Look at all the
clothing hanging up.

1052
01:15:56,134 --> 01:15:57,654
We've never, until this moment,

1053
01:15:57,719 --> 01:15:59,562
gotten to see their house,

1054
01:15:59,763 --> 01:16:02,516
and it's the one that Rob built.

1055
01:16:02,724 --> 01:16:04,476
That's huge for us.

1056
01:16:04,643 --> 01:16:08,273
- It just makes it so he's real...
- Right.

1057
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:09,624
And he really made an impact.

1058
01:16:09,648 --> 01:16:12,242
The things that he did
were important and he mattered.

1059
01:16:12,442 --> 01:16:14,319
But he didn't do it for himself.

1060
01:16:14,528 --> 01:16:15,871
- He did it for others.
- Yeah.

1061
01:16:16,071 --> 01:16:19,075
This represents him in a way

1062
01:16:19,283 --> 01:16:23,163
because... he built
this for his team.

1063
01:16:23,370 --> 01:16:24,542
That's who he was.

1064
01:16:26,623 --> 01:16:28,500
That's unbelievable.

1065
01:16:28,667 --> 01:16:30,311
You know, if we
were watching it with him,

1066
01:16:30,335 --> 01:16:32,735
he'd probably just sit back and
we'd be like, "You did that?"

1067
01:16:32,838 --> 01:16:35,011
"You did that?" and he'd
be like, "Yup, I did it.

1068
01:16:35,215 --> 01:16:38,185
I guess like it doesn't
surprise me in a way.

1069
01:16:38,385 --> 01:16:40,638
I could see Rob doing this

1070
01:16:40,846 --> 01:16:43,190
and not complaining
about it whatsoever.

1071
01:16:43,348 --> 01:16:44,993
- Right, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
- Just doing it.

1072
01:16:45,017 --> 01:16:46,564
Not having a problem with it.

1073
01:16:46,768 --> 01:16:48,736
I just miss Rob.

1074
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:33,529
♪ Breathe... don't speak

1075
01:17:35,567 --> 01:17:39,913
♪ You're fading out

1076
01:17:43,116 --> 01:17:48,668
♪ Don't... close your eyes

1077
01:17:50,123 --> 01:17:54,128
♪ We're almost there now

1078
01:17:54,336 --> 01:17:57,215
♪ We're almost there

1079
01:17:57,422 --> 01:18:00,392
♪ We are ghosts in our homes

1080
01:18:00,509 --> 01:18:04,059
♪ Singing songs all alone

1081
01:18:04,262 --> 01:18:08,267
♪ But we've fought to be free
and this pain isn't me

1082
01:18:08,433 --> 01:18:11,437
♪ We are ghosts
now in our home

1083
01:18:11,645 --> 01:18:15,024
♪ We are ghosts all our own

1084
01:18:15,232 --> 01:18:18,577
♪ In this valley
we call home

1085
01:18:18,777 --> 01:18:21,326
♪ We will fight to be free

1086
01:18:21,530 --> 01:18:23,373
♪ Come unchained
from our grief

1087
01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:26,452
♪ We are ghosts now
in our home

1088
01:18:41,883 --> 01:18:47,140
♪ These friends remain

1089
01:18:48,807 --> 01:18:53,813
♪ But this place
just feels so strange

1090
01:18:56,148 --> 01:19:01,655
♪ My eyes... betray

1091
01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:07,160
♪ I don't want to leave

1092
01:19:07,325 --> 01:19:10,829
♪ But I can't stay

1093
01:19:11,037 --> 01:19:14,132
♪ We are ghosts in our home

1094
01:19:14,332 --> 01:19:17,802
♪ Singing songs all alone

1095
01:19:18,003 --> 01:19:20,176
♪ But we've fought to be free

1096
01:19:20,380 --> 01:19:22,348
♪ And this pain isn't me

1097
01:19:22,507 --> 01:19:25,727
♪ We are ghosts now
in our home

1098
01:19:25,927 --> 01:19:29,181
♪ We are ghosts on our own

1099
01:19:29,347 --> 01:19:33,568
♪ In this valley we call home

1100
01:19:33,769 --> 01:19:37,114
♪ We will fight to be free
Come unchained from our grief

1101
01:19:37,314 --> 01:19:41,069
♪ We are ghosts now
in our home

1102
01:19:51,536 --> 01:19:57,543
♪ I've been so... in love

1103
01:19:57,751 --> 01:20:02,222
♪ And love will find

1104
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:05,224
♪ Its way home

1105
01:20:05,383 --> 01:20:10,014
♪ And I've been told...

1106
01:20:10,222 --> 01:20:15,524
♪ That love

1107
01:20:15,727 --> 01:20:17,570
♪ Will find...

1108
01:20:17,771 --> 01:20:19,444
My name's Rob and I'm 14.

1109
01:20:19,648 --> 01:20:21,241
'- All right!
- 'Good.

1110
01:20:21,399 --> 01:20:22,742
It's early now.

1111
01:20:23,944 --> 01:20:25,446
My second day of school.

1112
01:20:26,947 --> 01:20:28,870
There's mother and Shawn
in the carriage.

1113
01:20:30,909 --> 01:20:32,877
This lady just crossed
the street without looking.

1114
01:20:34,746 --> 01:20:36,794
Robbie's so
concerned about that.

1115
01:20:38,625 --> 01:20:41,549
♪ We are ghosts now
in our home

1116
01:20:41,753 --> 01:20:45,098
♪ We are ghosts
on our own

1117
01:20:45,298 --> 01:20:48,552
♪ In this valley
we call home

1118
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,685
♪ We will fight to be free
Come unchained from our grief

1119
01:20:52,889 --> 01:20:56,359
♪ We are ghosts now
in our home

1120
01:21:29,342 --> 01:21:34,815
♪ Well, I shipped out
with a job to do

1121
01:21:36,141 --> 01:21:40,317
♪ Headed to desert sands

1122
01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:44,904
♪ To build a wall

1123
01:21:45,108 --> 01:21:47,577
♪ And draw a line

1124
01:21:47,777 --> 01:21:52,874
♪ And that wall,
that wall still stands

1125
01:21:56,620 --> 01:22:01,000
♪ They cut me down
with the bullet fire

1126
01:22:01,166 --> 01:22:07,048
♪ Cut down by hands of man

1127
01:22:08,965 --> 01:22:14,813
♪ My body lay
for all to see

1128
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:20,816
♪ But that wall,
that wall still stands

1129
01:22:23,521 --> 01:22:27,867
♪ It still stands

1130
01:22:29,694 --> 01:22:32,573
♪ It still stands

1131
01:22:36,076 --> 01:22:39,205
♪ You might scorch the land

1132
01:22:39,371 --> 01:22:42,045
♪ You might kill a man

1133
01:22:42,207 --> 01:22:47,839
♪ But that wall,
that wall still stands

1134
01:23:03,436 --> 01:23:09,739
♪ Well, the ones who stand
behind me now

1135
01:23:09,943 --> 01:23:14,449
♪ They don't know who I am

1136
01:23:16,032 --> 01:23:19,036
♪ But what matters most

1137
01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:22,248
♪ When danger's close

1138
01:23:22,414 --> 01:23:27,921
♪ Is that wall,
that still stand?

1139
01:23:31,047 --> 01:23:36,975
♪ It still stands

1140
01:23:37,178 --> 01:23:40,022
♪ Oh, it still stands

1141
01:23:43,101 --> 01:23:46,321
♪ You might scorch the land

1142
01:23:46,521 --> 01:23:49,445
♪ Or you might kill a man

1143
01:23:49,607 --> 01:23:55,080
♪ But that wall,
that wall still stands

1144
01:24:20,388 --> 01:24:26,111
♪ Now every wall
one day will fall

1145
01:24:26,311 --> 01:24:30,942
♪ When steel and wood
turn to sand

1146
01:24:32,734 --> 01:24:35,283
♪ But what I believed was good

1147
01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:38,366
♪ Still holds its ground

1148
01:24:38,573 --> 01:24:44,376
♪ And that wall,
that wall still stands

1149
01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:50,552
♪ It still stands

1150
01:24:53,046 --> 01:24:56,175
♪ Oh, it still stands

1151
01:24:59,260 --> 01:25:03,015
♪ You might scorch the land

1152
01:25:03,181 --> 01:25:05,775
♪ You might kill the man

1153
01:25:05,975 --> 01:25:07,693
♪ But that wall

1154
01:25:07,894 --> 01:25:12,274
♪ That wall

1155
01:25:15,944 --> 01:25:22,077
♪ Yeah, it still stands

1156
01:25:24,077 --> 01:25:27,081
♪ You might scorch the land

1157
01:25:27,288 --> 01:25:30,041
♪ You might kill the man

1158
01:25:30,208 --> 01:25:35,806
♪ But that wall,
that wall still stands

1159
01:25:36,005 --> 01:25:41,978
♪ Yeah, that wall,
that wall still stands

1160
01:25:42,178 --> 01:25:48,527
♪ Yeah, that wall,
that wall still stands