Restrepo

00:16:33,481 --> 00:16:38,490 Like l had a toy squirt gun that was a turtle, and my parents took it away 194 00:16:38,553 --> 00:16:40,490 because it said ''squirt gun'' it had ''gun'' on there. 195 00:16:40,555 --> 00:16:42,492 Fire! 196 00:17:01,242 --> 00:17:04,648 Right now priority... 197 00:17:11,653 --> 00:17:15,961 For the first few months of the deployment... 198 00:17:16,024 --> 00:17:18,896 we'd get rocked hard. They'd hit us from... 199 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,703 They'd ambush us at 360 degrees. 200 00:17:23,765 --> 00:17:25,702 l remember thinking, you know, holy shit, 201 00:17:25,767 --> 00:17:29,106 did everybody from the entire country come to this valley? 202 00:17:29,169 --> 00:17:33,010 ls nobody else fighting anymore? Is every bad guy in my face? 203 00:17:33,073 --> 00:17:36,680 Oh, shit! 204 00:17:36,745 --> 00:17:38,180 Motherfuckers. 205 00:17:38,246 --> 00:17:40,450 ln the entire country of Afghanistan, 206 00:17:40,515 --> 00:17:45,625 we dropped something close to 70 percent of all the ordinance. 207 00:17:45,687 --> 00:17:50,028 All the bombs that were dropped at that particular time 208 00:17:50,090 --> 00:17:52,027 were dropped in the Korengal Valley. 209 00:17:52,092 --> 00:17:54,530 As CNN dubbed it one day when Bush saw it 210 00:17:54,596 --> 00:17:56,933 and said, you know, the ugliest place on Earth 211 00:17:56,998 --> 00:17:58,935 the Korengal Valley. 212 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:04,311 But to my family, l never really told them much 213 00:18:04,406 --> 00:18:07,110 until about halmay into the deployment. 214 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:10,480 l didn't tell them when Vimoto died. 215 00:18:10,545 --> 00:18:13,384 l didn't tell them when Sergeant Padilla lost his arm. 216 00:18:13,448 --> 00:18:18,156 l didn't tell them when Pisec got shot. l didn't tell them when Restrepo got killed. 217 00:18:18,218 --> 00:18:22,159 And then when Restrepo got killed was a few days before my mom's birthday also. 218 00:18:22,222 --> 00:18:27,766 So l had to... l had to suck it up when l called my mom on her birthday 219 00:18:27,829 --> 00:18:32,972 and act like everything was okay and say ''Hey, Mom, happy birthday,'' you know, 220 00:18:33,034 --> 00:18:36,441 like, ''Yeah, l am doing really good out here, everything's fine.'' 221 00:18:56,223 --> 00:19:00,799 The change came when we in OP Restrepo. 222 00:19:00,862 --> 00:19:04,336 ln the middle of the night we put up a firebase on top of the place 223 00:19:04,399 --> 00:19:10,978 that they had used as their enemy kinetic, you know, point of attack, 224 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:15,648 or of origin of their attack, for the last 15 months. 225 00:19:17,277 --> 00:19:22,388 We walked up the Spur with shovels and picks. 226 00:19:22,450 --> 00:19:26,858 We worked all though the night just to make a small semicircle to chill in. 227 00:19:26,921 --> 00:19:30,428 We slept for maybe a couple hours each, started doing it again. 228 00:19:30,492 --> 00:19:34,833 That day we got in five, seven firefights. 229 00:19:34,896 --> 00:19:36,532 Everybody good? 230 00:19:36,598 --> 00:19:40,104 - Yeah, we're gonna - Yeah! 231 00:19:40,168 --> 00:19:42,105 We'd dig. They'd shoot at us. 232 00:19:42,170 --> 00:19:44,775 They'd see us digging, building this new place. They'd shoot. 233 00:19:44,839 --> 00:19:48,346 We'd shoot back. Once it lulled down, we started digging again. 234 00:19:48,409 --> 00:19:52,015 When the boys built that base, 235 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,556 the Taliban, or the AAF forces in the valley, they were completely in shock. 236 00:19:56,618 --> 00:19:59,557 lt was like a middle finger sticking out. 237 00:19:59,621 --> 00:20:06,000 And they realized once they could not knock om OP Restrepo, we had the upper hand. 238 00:20:06,060 --> 00:20:08,498 They started becoming afraid. 239 00:20:08,563 --> 00:20:10,600 Eat some, turban head! 240 00:20:10,665 --> 00:20:13,504 Hey, hit the bottom right. Hit the bottom right of the village. 241 00:20:13,568 --> 00:20:16,239 - Get this! - Bottom right. Go right more. 242 00:20:23,111 --> 00:20:26,150 Hey, Solo, that's you. l'm not shooting over everybody. 243 00:20:26,214 --> 00:20:30,556 - Let's go, let's go! - He's down in the draw! 244 00:20:30,618 --> 00:20:32,555 - He's down in the draw. - Down in the draw. 245 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:34,557 How close? 246 00:20:55,009 --> 00:20:57,012 Buno, get your coms up. 247 00:21:00,782 --> 00:21:03,052 Make sure you got fucking SAW and a .203 with you. 248 00:21:03,117 --> 00:21:06,323 - You're taking Wilson, Cortez. - Cortez. 249 00:21:06,387 --> 00:21:08,323 Don't worry, l'll... 250 00:21:14,662 --> 00:21:18,201 Don't worry. There's very few that l just straight up hope don't make it. 251 00:21:23,872 --> 00:21:28,848 A month or two into it,