Combat Obscura (2018) Movie Script
1
[man 1] You better get
that shit.
-[man 2] Get over here!
-[man 3] More air!
[all whooping]
[man 2] Hey, Roddy,
how do we hear 'em?
[Miles] About to have
a drop right here!
-Air!
-[man 2] Get that! Get that!
[man 3] I think it's time
to get out.
-Shut up.
-[soldier yells]
[explosion]
-[man 2 chuckles]
-[Miles] Holy shit!
[man 2] Was that not
the wrong building?
[Miles] That's the wrong
building.
[explosions]
[Miles] Holy shit!
Yeah, boy!
-Damn, yeah
-[all beatboxing]
We are, we are about to
-Kick it
-Freestyle, freestyle
-Freestyle
-Yeah
-Freestyle, freestyle
-[mumbling]
[all chuckle]
Oh, really
Wait, don't fuck up
the beat again.
[all laughing]
[man 2] Come on, come on.
Give me a beat.
-[man 1] You start, grunt!
-[man 2] I got you. I got you.
[clears throat]
[man 2] Now, while I'm going,
you better be ready.
[overlapping dialogue]
My name is Waldo.
And I'm down from the South, yo.
And this book right here,
we advertising about guns, ho.
-All right, now.
-[Miles chuckling]
-Are you having a problem--
-Richie had a gun
-in the background.
-[all laughing]
Are you having a problem
meeting your expectations?
Do you need to get on that
"next level"?
-[all laughing]
-Oh, shit!
-[men laughing]
-[man 1] Hey, it's the squad--
[man 2] Fuck yo,
bitch-ass nigga!
-Eat a dick!
-[trilling]
[all speaking indistinctly]
[grunts]
Eat a dick!
-Oh!
-What's up?
-Eat a dick!
-What's up?
What's up, head bussas?
We some head bussas
[all grunting]
-[screaming]
-[all laughing]
-[laughing continues]
-Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
[man 3] Get back in there!
We some head bussas
White bones pressure
[overlapping chatter]
[chatter continues]
I need to win, nigga.
I need to buy a new one.
I need to win.
[explosion]
-Oh, shit!
-[all laughing]
[soldier 1] Fuck your purity.
[Miles] All right.
Just talk to me.
Don't look at the camera.
Uh...
What's your, uh...
What's your role out here,
as squad leader?
Uh, on this deployment,
a combat engineer's job
is to lead sweep
in front of the patrol.
And, uh, make sure
the rest of that patrol
doesn't hit any IEDs,
anything like that.
Just keep your eyes out
for indicators, command wires,
everything like that.
And, uh, if we do
come across an IED,
to cordon it off,
we make sure everybody gets
a safe distance
away from it,
and everything like that.
The mission of
a Marine Corps Scout Sniper
is detachment of one
or more snipers,
performing an assigned task
of engaging selected targets,
targets of opportunity,
collecting
and recording information,
or a combination of all,
contributing
to the accomplishment
of this Corps GS mission.
[Miles] Okay, um...
Can you say it
in your own words?
Actually, can we do this, uh...
right now, 'cause I'm supposed
to stop here
in like, 30 minutes.
[Miles] It'll be like,
three minutes, or...
All right. Let's go.
[Miles] I'm gonna put this
right here.
[distant indistinct chatter]
-[Miles] Huh?
-Where does this shit go?
[Miles] It'll probably go
to AFN, on the chow hall.
At Leatherneck,
or it'll go to CNN.
-Shit like that.
-Really?
-[Miles] Yeah.
-All right, well, hey.
Let's do this after, then.
[Miles] You don't wanna
do it now?
-No.
-[Miles] Okay.
[camera clanks]
Whoo!
[boy speaking Pashto]
Eh?
[boy speaking Pashto]
[exhaling]
[Miles] I'm becoming, like,
a combat junkie.
Like...
if I don't...
If I don't film combat, and...
I feel like
the patrol's worthless.
[soldier 1] That's awesome.
[soldier 2] Let's go!
Pre-firefight PT.
-[claps]
-Gotta limber up.
-Gotta limber up
-Stay loose.
before we get in a firefight.
There you go.
-[all groaning]
-Come on.
First exercise is gonna be...
-the sun gods.
-Sun gods.
-All right.
-Okay? We'll do, uh...
Do ten, I could count.
-All right, everybody good?
-Oh, yeah.
-I'm ready.
-Starting position.
-[soldier grunts]
-[squad leader] Begin.
One, two, three.
-One...
-[squad leader] Four, five, six,
-seven, eight, nine, ten.
-[soldier exhales sharply]
-Whoo.
-[squad leader] All right.
Good stretch.
Good stretch, guys.
-Good stretch.
-That was good, guys...
The next exercise is gonna be...
the air squats.
In case we gotta leap
tall buildings.
-Yeah.
-Good one, good one.
All right,
I'll count the repetition.
You guys just do it. Ready?
Okay.
One...
[all grunting]
[soldier 1] Oh, just feel
that burn.
Like this, combat stance.
Combat stance.
-Oh, combat stance.
-Oh, yeah.
[all panting]
I'm great...
[all exhale sharply]
All right. That was good,
that was good.
Okay, next exercise
is gonna be...
finger curls.
Finger curls, yeah. For that...
-Trigger control.
-Trigger control.
-Ready?
-Start shooting.
-On me.
-All right.
-On you.
-Tecount.
Let's get ready.
-One, two, three.
-[all] One.
-One, two, three.
-[all] Two.
-One, two, three.
-[all] Three.
-[soldier 1] Yeah!
-[all] One, two, three, four.
One, two, three...
-[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 2] Hey!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 2] Make sure
that doesn't
fucking go through the roof!
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] They're coming up!
-[soldier 2] They're coming up!
-Come on, come on, come on.
-Come on! Come on!
Hey, they're flashing fire.
[soldier 3] Camilo,
get the fuck over here, now!
-[soldier 2] What do you want?
-[Miles] Smoke, right?
[soldier 3]
Hey, we'll grab the smoke!
[soldier 2] All right, go!
Hey, where's the shot flare?
[soldier 3]
Yeah, I got it. Hold on.
[soldier 2] Hurry up.
[rapid gunshots]
-Go!
-[soldier 2] What'll we do?
Bring this fucking fire up!
-[soldier 4] Zero.
-We're in the field!
Bring the fucking fire up!
[soldier 4] What's the distance?
-[gunshot]
-[soldier 1] In the field!
[soldier 2] All right,
we are triggered.
-[soldier 1] We good?
-[soldier 2] Hey!
-[soldier 3] Yeah.
-Don't worry about it.
-What's the distance?
-Ready?
-Go, drop it.
-Distance?
[soldier 2] Three hundred.
-[metal clanks]
-Hey!
-Hey! Get your heads down!
-Hey, get the fuck down!
-Get down!
-200 meters right!
-Let's go!
-[coughs]
Get down!
[soldier mumbles]
-Ready?
-[soldier 4] Hey!
-We're locked in at them!
-[sighs]
-Pipe!
-[thumps]
[man 1] Whoa!
He's just tiring himself out,
and he doesn't even realize it.
[man 2] And he's spinning
out of control.
[man 1] Yeah, I'd grab
one of the lungs
in this case, actually.
[pants]
[both grunt]
[man 1] There you go,
you got it.
[both panting]
[man 2] Hell, yeah.
You have to throw in
your fucking knees.
Get on your knees.
Can you get a terp, uh,
to the radio, for me?
This kid just came over here
after about five minutes,
asking me for something.
He made the "boom" motion
with his hands,
and he said, "Bomb."
[radio beeps]
-[radio beeps]
-Hey, Ali, can you ask this kid
if he knows
where there's a bomb at?
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[radio beeps]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[chuckles, speaks Pashto]
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[speaking Pashto]
[Ali speaking in English
over radio]
-[radio beeps]
-Hey, Ali, can you ask him
why he came up to me
and tell me...
uh, he said "the bomb,"
and then, he tried to tell me
that there was a bomb.
Uh, south of where I'm at
right now.
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[boy speaking Pashto]
[Ali speaking in English]
All right, Ali, thanks.
This kid's lying to me.
'Cause he just sat here
and made a sign for a bomb.
-And he said "bomb" twice.
-[man] Oh, you're full of shit.
[soldier 1]
And he pointed to the 611.
[radio beeps]
[Ali on radio]
[soldier 1] All right.
Thanks, Ali.
[boy speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Little fucking liar.
One of the benefits
of being, uh, in Afghanistan.
[Miles] The only benefit
of being in Afghanistan.
[soldier 2] Does that work
for him?
[Miles] You're all accomplices
to this crime.
Oh, are you afraid
I'm gonna shoot you
with this camera?
It doesn't shoot bullets,
I promise.
Why are you so angry?
Cheer up. Salaam alaikum.
[chuckles]
[snickers]
Hey, make sure you get
my third wife.
-Right there.
-[Miles] This one?
That one, right there.
-[Miles] That one?
-[soldier 2] In about ten years
she's definitely gonna be
a keeper.
-[Miles] Oh, I agree.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
[Miles] She just needs
to grow hair.
-Good.
-[Miles] od.
-[chuckles]
-[man] Good.
-[Miles] Good, good.
-[soldier 1] Good.
-[Miles] All right.
-[soldier speaking indistinctly]
[Miles] Terminating footage now.
There's like water on the lens.
That looks pretty cool.
[indistinct chatter in distance]
[soldier 1] It feels good.
[indistinct chatter]
-Here.
-[soldier 2] I smell like
a dirty gym locker.
You are a dirty gym locker.
It's fucking bullshit.
[soldier 1] I'm a dirty woman's
gym locker.
[soldier 3] I would love
a dirty woman's gym locker.
[Miles] Wait, wait.
You're not smoking?
No, bro.
Fuck my life.
[soldier 3] Sorry,
I'm not addicted
to fucking marijuana
like you four.
Ah, whoa.
Yeah, that's why--
"Hey, let me get some.
Let me get some..."
[soldier 3] I only do it
at night, though,
-you fucking idiot.
-"Hey, hey, can I get some--
-Let meet some post, man."
-Do I do it--
[soldier 3] Do I do it
during the day?
-We get to him.
-[soldier 3] Ever?
-It's every night, though.
-Yeah, I know.
-Every night.
-[soldier 2] No shit.
It's at night, though.
[soldier 1]
It's still every night.
-[soldier 2] It keeps me awake.
-"Dude let me got some."
[soldier 2]
'Cause I get paranoid.
At least I don't do it
during the day,
you fucking idiots.
[grunts]
[Miles] Oh, shit. Oh, shit!
[Miles laughing]
Come over here, kids.
We wanna have
a rock fight with you.
[speaking Pashto]
I wanna shoot somebody.
[Miles] Look at all those dudes
on mopeds, dude.
-That's sketchy as shit, dude.
-The guy that shot from--
-[Miles] Look at that.
-Looks annoying, though.
-[Miles] There's like 18 dudes.
-[soldier 1] Looks like...
-Yeah.
-[Miles] Hey, 18 dudes on bikes.
[chuckling]
[soldier 1] Yeah. 18 dudes.
[Miles]ighteen not being
an exaggeration.
-I'm not sure.
-There was quite a few, though.
[soldier 1] If I see an AK,
I'm gonna level them
with this .240.
[soldier 2] They're going fast
as shit, too. Look at them.
[Miles] They actually burst
through that target.
[soldier 3] Yeah,
look at them all.
[Mile] Dude,
that is Taliban as shit.
Um, there are local
nationals out there.
They, uh, seem to want us here.
Um, I mean, they have a lot
of problems on their own.
And, uh,
they're looking forward to us,
you know, helping them out.
And, uh, I mean, that's what
we're trying to do, so.
Oh, you do?
[Miles] Get the fuck out
of the way, Seven.
Seven.
[Miles] Get the fuck out
of the... You're in my shot.
-I'm interviewing him.
-Oh, sorry.
-[Miles] Move.
-No, I'll just be... quiet.
-[Miles] Move.
-I just gotta do this.
-You talk?
-Yeah.
Okay.
[clattering]
[Miles] Fucking idiot.
All right.
So, um...
[sighs]
[Miles clicks tongue]
What, uh, what's next?
Uh, next here?
Um, so far, we just keep,
uh, building,
you know, the relationship
between the locals.
[man on speaker]
Take that T-shirt off.
[soldier 1]
Everyone has that T-shirt.
[man on speaker]
Tell him to pick up his...
[garbled radio chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] He's holding it up
in the air.
-[soldier speaking Pashto]
-[man on radio] All right,
I'll give you one break.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 1] Tell him to stop
right there.
[soldier 2 speaks Pashto]
[Miles] God, I hope we still
have more recycled part.
I need plenty of stock.
[soldier 1] Go.
Down on your chest.
[soldier 2] Lemme see
your hands.
Stand up. Stand up.
Hands. Down on your knees.
I want him to be... I want both
of his hands down on the ground.
-[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
-I wanna see his hands.
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 in English] Down.
[Miles] Where is it, Vera?
[soldier 1] Pull it down.
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Yeah,
and when you travel...
[soldier 2] You have a problem
down with me?
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[man on radio] The red wire...
[interpreter speaking Pashto]
[woman speaking Pashto]
[interpreter] And she was just
an innocent girl.
[speaking Pashto]
And she's saying,
"I'm gonna be dying soon.
Because of him,
he passed away from me."
[camerawoman]
Tell her, tell her,
no, she's not gonna die.
Tell her we're here to help her,
and that we're very sorry.
[interpreter speaking Pashto]
-[woman speaking Pashto]
-[interpreter] "Thank God
-you are patient with me."
-[speaking Pashto]
[interpreter in English]
"I have two children with him,
I mean, what should I do?
I mean, nobody of my family
can take care
of those two little kids."
[soldier 1] Tell her,
I can do it for her.
[woman speaking Pashto]
-[soldier 2] We should go.
-[soldier 1] Yeah, go ahead.
Hey, uh, tell him
we need every man
in this whole group of compounds
to my right now.
-And yes, women, too.
-[man speaking Pashto]
We have that, too. All women.
[man speaking Pashto]
-[soldier 1] Okay.
-[indistinct radio chatter]
You know why we're here, right?
It's because there's a very
high-value individual here.
I don't care, right now,
about their customs
or their courtesies.
I want every single man
that is here,
-I want them out here.
-[man speaking Pashto]
-Hey, bud.
-[man speaking Pashto]
No, no, no...
Hey, if every man
does not come out,
we're gonna go in, and pull
every single one of them out.
[indistinct chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] What do we got?
[man on radio] Turban,
uh, his head wrapped
with a black, uh, turban, and...
[soldier 1] Right here.
All green, black vest,
white turban.
[man on radio]Like a white dot
on top of his head.
[soldier 1] You. Come here.
[woman on radio] Yeah, roger.
-Roger.
-Yes.
[woman on radio] It looks like
we just broke up
a Taliban meeting.
[soldier 1] This is a Taliban
meeting, true. It sure is.
We need to fucking POI
all these guys and take 'em all.
[soldier 1] You, here.
[soldier 2] And pull everybody
in green, okay?
[soldier 3] Hey,
what's the deal?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 2] Get everybody
in green.
[soldier 3] All right,
he's fucking...
[man on radio] We still
don't know what's going on...
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 3] I can go over there,
and do those three fuckers.
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier 3] Do you want
the three?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Over there.
[soldier 3] I'm talking
about going over there
and do those three.
[soldier 2] Let's take him
to the back.
[soldier 1] Hey, Jamal.
All right, coming your way.
Hey. We got this guy coming.
Hey, Thomas.
-When we get back to it...
-They're not talking.
-What's up?
-They're not talking.
-All right. Everybody come here.
-[soldier 2] Hey.
[soldie3] Be prepared...
[soldier 2] Hey, they're sending
3rd for aid support.
[soldier 1] All right, good.
-[soldier 3] Hey.
-[soldier 1] Good shit.
I need a lighter.
-We got in past the red light.
-A man with ragged clothes...
[soldier 4] Classic, though.
[Miles] The guy in the green
was just, like, smiling.
It was weird.
[sniffles]
[soldier 4] Sir?
Because he's,
he's one of the inside men.
[soldier 2] Hey, look at where
he was sitting, too.
He was sitting at a pretty,
kinda, like central location,
where everybody's
paying attention to him.
He's the head shit.
[soldier on radio]
Hey, that's a solid break.
I don't... a day out,
it could be less, a day less,
means one dead found.
[soldier 2] Check this out.
[soldier 3] But no one's
talking to him.
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Get them all inside.
[soldier 3] You got it,
you got it secured, man?
[soldier 2] Yeah,
I got it secured.
-[device beeps]
-[dogs barking]
[soldier 3] Whoa, bro.
-[soldier 2] Hey, look at that.
-[soldier 1] Take care.
[Miles] It's a goat.
-Yeah, might be a goat.
-Is it a goat?
[Miles] It's a goat.
[soldier 1] No wires
running through it?
[soldier 2] No, I don't see any.
I got something
on the side, man.
[soldier 2] So,
I think we're good.
[soldier 3] Looks like peanuts.
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Get him away
from the damn door.
[soldier 2] Hey.
Get on fucking back there.
[soldier 4] Hey, don't look.
Don't look.
-Hey, guys. Turn, turn around.
-[soldier 3] Hey.
Don't look. Don't look.
-[soldier 2] Over here, Miles.
-They go for you, sir.
-[Miles] Hey, hey! You!
-[soldier 3] I got it, hey.
[soldier 2] Hey,
sit your fucking ass down.
Hey, can anyone
come and help with this?
[soldier 1] We're gonna have
to have, like, a...
[Miles] Wow, that was good.
[soldier 1] Hey, Stuart.
Can I relay with Six,
to get a loader come in
and have him bring us all
some water?
-[Stuart] I already did, buddy.
-All right, man.
You said it.
And we're not allowed
to say that shit.
-[soldier 3] No, I'm not.
-I know that.
[soldier 2] Yeah, but...
[soldier 2] Oh, yeah.
[chuckles]
[man on radio]
To, uh, send a patrol to, uh,
take in those guys.
[soldier 3] Tell him
to come here.
We have 360 degrees security.
And they all look
innocent anyways.
-[Miles] Say it again?
-[chuckles]
You fucker.
Yeah, ask me again, then.
[Miles] What do you think?
-About these guys?
-[Miles] Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm, I'm jaded. I'm...
I think these guys
are all just hanging out.
I don't think
they're bad guys, but...
when we kill 'em,
we see the same dudes
in the same clothes.
So, who knows?
You wanna see it?
[soldier groans]
It'll be easy
to get me in trouble, Arty.
Your name is Frank?
-Yes, sir.
-What does it mean?
-[soldier sighs]
-[Frank speaks indistinctly]
Therefore,
it's not a real a birth name.
I need to do some thinking.
[man] Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
[man chanting]
[chanting continues]
[squad leader]
Bring it in real close,
so I can get this over with.
We got everybody?
Overall, patrol didn't go
as planned
and everybody knows
I'm not gonna be the dead horse.
We sat there
and we got the cordon.
And we had
suspicious individuals,
looked like a Taliban meeting.
I have, to this...
for the rest of my fucking
deployment, say it was.
We can't control that. Whatever.
It wasn't how we planned,
but everybody reacted good.
We'd be around, you know.
[squad leader]
What was supposed to happen
went to, uh, what did happen.
Um, good job overall, and uh...
That's all I got.
So, all those guys
are fucking...
All those guys are free to go.
[overlapping dialogue]
[squad leader]
Every fucking one of 'em.
Are they pissed?
-[soldier 1] I would be pissed.
-[soldier 2 chuckles]
So, mate...
that's our fucking role today.
Um, that's it. Do what you do.
[engine whirring loudly]
[whirring continues]
[all cheering]
[soldier 1] Look at that back.
[soldier 2] Look at that,
fucking motivation right there.
Look at that.
Oh, check out this back.
[soldier 1] What's that shit?
What's that shit?
[soldier 2] Yes, sir!
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 3 cheers]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 2 yells]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 2 grunting]
-[gruntincontinues]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-Get some!
-[soldier 2] Hell, yeah!
-[soldier 1] Yeah!
-[soldier 2 groans]
-[soldier 1] We're going up!
-[soldier 2 yells]
[both screaming]
[both cheering]
[soldier 2] Get it!
Get it! Yeah!
[yelling]
[all laughing]
-[soldier 2 screaming]
-[soldier 3] One, two!
-Three, four, five.
-[men whooping]
[all chatter]
-[soldier 1] Get some! Get some!
-[soldier 2 grunting loudly]
-[soldier 2] That's about ten!
-[soldier 1] Get some!
[soldier 2 screaming]
[soldier 2 whping]
[soldier 1] Check.
[engine whirring loudly]
-[whirring continues]
-[soldier exhales sharply]
[soldier panting]
[fire crackling]
[soft thud]
-[soldier 1] You gotta hit it.
-[soldier 2] Hit it. Oh, yeah.
Oh, god, no.
[muffled cough]
So here we are,
staying in Afghanistan,
Patrol Base Alcatraz.
With two dudes, whose names
I'm not gonna mention.
[inhales sharply]
Luckily, for us,
Afghanistan's a hash farm.
[soldier 2] You keep calling it
a hash farm.
[soldier 1] What do you think?
This is risky as possible.
[man singing indistinctly]
[inhales]
[soldier 1] Oh, yeah.
[Miles chuckles]
[soldier 1] Dude, I'm way
too fucked up to be on camera.
[Miles] Someone spit some
fucking rhymes.
No, ask me... Interview me
while we're fucked up.
[Miles] I'm gonna put it
in a movie.
-Do you think, uh...
-[chuckles]
Did you ever think
you were gonna be deployed?
To something like this
right now?
-Yeah.
-Yeah. All right, well,
to be quite frank with you,
Mr. Lawyer,
I, uh... No. Fuck no, man.
You know, you join
the Marine Corps,
you think the Marine Corp is
like a bunch of perfect people,
-you know.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
That don't do anything bad,
don't curse.
And they're jusreally
squared away killers, you know.
And then,
the Marine Corps is filled up
with the most fucked up
individuals I've ever met.
-Yeah.
-[soldier 2] You know?
Just like me, you know?
[chuckles]
[soldier 1] Sir.
[Miles] These guys are like...
[soldier 1] Hey.
Salaam.
[Miles] Salaam alaikum.
-[man] Salaam!
-Well, what's going on out here?
-[man 1] Come in.
-[man 2] Come now.
-[man 1] Sure great to see you.
-[man 2] Hello. Good morning.
Hello. Good morning.
[Miles] What's up?
[indistinct chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Hey, hey, hey.
Get this, get this.
[man speaking Pashto]
This a machine gun.
One Talib, we shoot him
with machine gun.
-Oh, yeah? Let me see.
-Yeah.
[Miles] Tell him to, uh,
prove one.
[man speaking Pashto]
-Come.
-Bring it over?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 2] Uh, here, hey.
[laughs]
-[soldier 2] Take this.
-[man 1] Oh, no, no, no.
[soldier 2] I can't fucking
be carrying this shit around.
[Mile] Hey, be careful
with that thing.
[soldier 2] Yeah, grunt.
[man speaking Pashto]
Hey, do not blow
anyone's head off.
No, I'm not. This is the safety?
-[all] Yeah.
-[soldier 2] Safety?
[all] Yeah, yeah.
Boom, boom, and then...
-[man 1] No...
-Yeah.
[man 1] This one worked,
they changed it.
[soldier 1] No, no, no.
It's good.
[men speaking Pashto]
[men continue speaking Pashto]
[all laughing]
[Miles] He's probably thinking,
"This guy cannot smoke at all."
[chuckles]
I don't think this guy
can outsmoke me at all.
[men speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1]
They're making fun of me.
Hey!
[soldier 1] Red? My eyes?
[soldier chuckling]
It's good, man.
Gunner shooting the Taliban,
the Sangin.
[man 1] Radio, to me.
-[crackles]
-[action music plays]
[Miles] That is
an intense firefight.
-[soldier 1] That's a jock.
-[Miles chuckles]
[indistinct chatter]
[men speaking Pashto]
[Miles] What's with the music?
[man 1] Music, come on.
[indistinct chatter]
[Miles] This is
a recruiting video, isn't it?
[indistinct chatter]
This is Afghani, ain't it?
[man 1] Yeah. Commander.
[Miles] Commando!
[soldier] You know, how awesome
would combat be
if there's a rise against
point or something,
and some kind of like,
rock band,
where you fucking just make
it look like someone's dead?
[squad leader] He's gonna be
the point man.
-He's gonna be our rear guard.
-[soldier 1] Okay.
[squad leader] Whatever
the enemy has planned,
by the grace of God...
they're not gonna succeed.
Let us pray.
Father, in the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Right, get support.
[soldier 2] Back up.
[rapid gunshots]
-Pipe!
-[gunshots]
-[soldier 1] On that truck!
-[rifle cocks]
-[soldier 1] Twelve o' clock!
-[gunshots]
[distorted dialogue]
Too close!
Smack, shift! This side!
[soldier 2]
Where's he coming from?
Out of that square!
Right in front of us
on the hole!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Hey!
You see the smoke
right in front of us?
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 1] See that
-fucking square?
-[soldier 2] Yeah!
[soldier 1]
Shoothe fucking square!
[rapid gunshots]
Down! Down!
Not that square,
up to the left of it.
[explosion]
[all cheering]
[soldier 1]
Fuck you, motherfuckers!
-[soldier 2] He missed it.
-[soldier 3] Fuck, man.
-You gotta get it in there.
-[Miles] He missed it!
[soldier 2] They were looking
in the completely wrong spot.
[Miles] Fucking run!
Fucking run!
-[soldier 3] Yeah!
-[Miles] Run, bitch!
Oh, god.
This is the point
where you just start...
[soldier 5] Shooting people.
...blowing everything up.
[rocks clattering]
-And they're just--
-[soldier 4] I'm good.
It's not worth it,
just shoot everything, dude.
Blow every damn thing up
around here.
They'll get the idea.
[distant indistinct chatter]
[men shouting]
[soldier in distance]
Hey! Hey, we got it!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Get inside!
[soldier 2]
Hey, tell them to start.
[rapid gunshots]
[indistinct shouting]
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] Fall out!
-[Miles] Hey, we got boarders
-in that compound!
-[soldier 1] I know.
-[child sobbing]
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go!
-[soldier 2] Fuck you!
-[soldier 3] Go, go, go!
-[gunshot]
-[Miles] Jesus fuckin--
[soldier 3] Whoa!
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] Jesus fucking...
[rapid gunshots]
-[rapid gunshots continue]
-[Miles] Shit.
[soldier 2] Use gunshots!
[soldier 1] What?
[Miles] Hey, gunshot!
Everybody, get in, get in!
-[soldier 1] What?
-[soldier 2] Snipers!
[Miles] Sniper! Holy shit!
[soldier 1] I don't know,
where did that come from?
[soldier 2] Hey! We took
a round right there! Gunshot!
-[gunshot]
-[soldier 1] Oh, fuck!
-[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 1] Shit!
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier grunts]
-[soldier 3] He's dead!
He's dead!
No, get him out to Two!
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go.
-[Miles] Hey, I'm hit!
-Hey, I'm hit.
-[soldier 2] Come on!
-[soldier 1] Hey.
-[soldier 2] Gunshot!
[soldier 4] Get him out of here!
-[soldier groaning]
-[soldier 1] You go grab him!
[soldier 2]
You're fucking gone, man!
-[Miles] Hauser!
-[Hauser sighs deeply]
-[soldier] You're good, Hauser!
-[Miles] Hey, I'm bleeding.
-[soldier 2] Let's go!
-[soldier 3] In the house!
In the high compound!
-In the compound!
-[Hauser panting]
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Get him to the COC!
-[Hauser groans]
-He's hit.
[soldier 3] Go!
[soldier 2] Get him in!
[Miles] Hey,
I'm fucking bleeding.
Don't, don't...
In their way, 'cause...
You're not on auto.
[distant rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] All right,
this motherfucker's bleeding.
We got him in the COC right now.
We're all huddled in here.
'Cause our battalion
doesn't feel that we need air.
[soldier 1] But, yeah.
There's everyone back there.
Gotta love the little room.
-[groans]
-[soldier 1] Everybody,
say hi to MTV.
[soldier 2] One of us just go
out there, and fucking
tell Charles
to shoot the cars down,
so I thought, "Fuck it."
-Fucking death, man.
-You have some five mil.
Well, the blood is fucking...
-It stopped flowing already.
-[soldier 2] How you feeling?
[soldier 1]
I'd like some action.
[soldier 2]
It's fucking stupid, dude.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 3] Yeah, it is.
I don't know
what the fuck's going on.
[soldier 2]
Who the fuck is there?
Who the fuck is anything?
He asked, said Fazaj, fucking...
[soldier 3] I don't know
why Matt isn't here yet.
We got some nice fucking...
We're right here by ourselves.
[soldier 2] You just realized
that shit, man?
-[soldier 1] Fucking shrapnel.
-Is everyone good in here?
[Miles] There was sniper fire.
I felt it went ght fucking
by me and hit the ground.
-[soldier 2] Get it done.
-[medic] Uh-huh.
[medic] You got shrapnel
in yours, sit down.
Combat camera,
let me see your face.
[medic] Shrapnel in your face.
[clattering]
-[Miles] Yeah.
-[medic] On your face.
Look. It's gonna be
the fastest medevac ever.
-All right.
-We're still taking indirect.
We're still taking small arms.
We have to get him on the bird.
As fast as possible.
Where's the bird landing?
Some place.
We have to be fast.
-Oh, man.
-All right?
-I got it.
-You good?
-[Miles] I'm good.
-You good?
[soldier 1] Go, let's go.
[soldier 2]
Grab this, grab this.
Grab it in front of him.
[soldier 3] Where are we
gonna stop, then?
Does it burn?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier grunts]
[soldier 2]
What are you doing, idiot?
-Stop right here till it lands.
-[Miles] Stop on the bird.
[soldier 2] Stop right here
till it lands.
Right here.
We're right behind the bird
for right now.
-[soldier 1] Set him down.
-[soldier 2] Get him this way.
Get him in the steepest one,
guys.
[soier 1] 'Scuse me.
[Hauser groans]
[soldier 2] How you doing,
brother?
[soldier 3] Hauser,
how you feeling, man?
[soldier 4] You're going home,
manI fucking love you, man.
-Hauser, how you doing, buddy?
-[Hauser] Good.
Breathing all right?
[helicopter engine whirring]
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go!
-[soldier 2] Go!
[soldier 1]
Advance to the fucking bird.
[soldier 2] Watch the bird!
Watch the bird!
[soldier 1] Run!
[soldier 3] Let's go.
Come on, go!
[helicopter engine whirring]
[muffled yelling]
[soldier 1] Go!
[indistinct chatter]
Go!
[helicopter engine revving]
[Miles] How you doing, buddy?
[panting]
Another day, man. Another day.
[distant laughter]
[soldier] So, what happened
to you today?
Yeah, I got fucking...
shrapnel in my head.
Just... just a boo-boo.
Uh...
I don't, I don't wanna...
I don't want any more combat.
It's like, I'm good after this.
[soldier] You ready to go home,
aren't you?
Yeah.
[soldier] I think everybody
is, today.
How you feeling?
I don't know.
Scared.
I mean, I'm fine now, but...
when it was happening,
I was like...
"What the fuck, dude?"
I never thought that...
they'd get that close, you know.
I know, I never thought
they'd hit us in the compound.
[soldier] Where were you
when that happened?
[coughs]
I was, uh...
over that side.
But, trucks, sniper fucking...
just missed me, hit the ground.
And I was like, "Holy shit."
And then, fucking...
[distant chatter]
And then, fucking...
They fucking hit us with a...
30 mike-mike, exploded.
Grenade launcher.
Right? Grenade launcher?
I'm, I'm a cameraman.
I don't know.
I don't know
what that shit's called.
So...
[clears throat]
I fucking...
I saw the guy that got hit.
Hauser.
They started dragging him.
And, uh, and anyways,
I was bleeding.
And, uh...
[distant yelling]
What's going on?
Anyway.
[clicks tongue]
Uh, so, I was bleeding.
And then, I was like...
I knew I wasn't hurt that bad.
I knew it was just a cut.
[indistinct chatter in distance]
But I was still scared.
I just kept filming, and uh...
if you looked through
the camera...
When you look through
the camera, and...
the viewfinder, it's almost
like, "It's not happening."
You know.
It's almost like it's a movie.
You're just watching a movie.
I want you to meet the men
of First Battalion
Sixth Marine Regiment.
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Reloading!
[soldier 2] Gets you
out of nowhere...
I'm in a sleeping bag, still.
So, all of a sudden,
you hear the flaresoing off,
RPG, then,
fires just start going off.
[explosion]
Just to the northwest of us,
across the Helmand River,
they have a ridgeline up there.
And there's caves
in the ridgeline,
that they'll crawl into.
And they engage us from there.
[rapid gunshots]
There's guns and ammo.
By the time,
like, after a couple hours,
we were like...
Probably had a hundred,
still left for a .50 cal,
and that was it.
[rapid gunshots]
It's that really bad out,
real quick.
[rapid gunshots]
[indistinct chatter]
Slow it down!
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] Slow it down!
-[soldier 2] What?
-[explosion]
-[soldier groans]
[soldier 1] IDF 30mm grenades,
hitting inside the compound.
Getting close, real close.
I mean, we took a casualty.
Uh, took a couple casualties.
You know, you hear about
people being battle-tested.
This one tested the boys.
That video, most of it shot
by young, Lance Corporal
Jacob Lagoze.
All of the wounded, we are told,
have recovered
or are returning to duty.
[soldier] Hey,
ex-cal's on the way!
-But listen to...
-[rapidunshots]
Just stand back over here.
[soldier 1] Fucking 91.
That first compound
looked all fucked up,
you see it?
[Miles] Yeah.
[soldier 1] You can get
out here, dude.
-You can get a better shot.
-[soldier 2] Shit.
[explosion]
-[soldier 2] Fuck, yeah.
-[rapid gunshots]
[laughing]
[soldier 2] Yeah!
[rapid gunshots]
Fuck, yes!
That had to be one
of the coolest fucking things,
-I have ever seen.
-Yeah.
[soldier on radio]They have all
this shit on video, goddamn it.
-[all chuckle]
-[soldier 2] It's all...
-It's all there, brother.
-Oh, it's all there, brother.
[Miles exhales]
-[soldier 1] Yeah, so...
-[soldier 2] Look here.
[soldier sighs]
[soldier 2] Motherfuckers.
Whoo! Shot my pack.
[soldier laughs]
[Miles] That's probably the one
that ricocheted right by me.
[soldier 2] Am I happy
to see you.
-[soldier 1] Man, we found...
-[Miles laughs]
-...this big ass fucking hole.
-Whoo! That was a close one.
[soldier 1] I was standing
at west OP.
I was just chilling there.
And then, out of nowhere,
I get shot by this sniper.
The bullet goes through
my Marine Corp tattoo.
[chuckles]
And, uh, it comes out
of my chest.
Right here.
And the bullet
gets lodged into my jaw.
I don't think
there's any more that,
anything more remote
than that shit, man.
It shot, it was my only tattoo
at the time.
It was my first tattoo,
and it was a mote tattoo.
And I always hated it
before that.
Just because, fucking...
I feel like I'm branded
with the Marine Corps.
I don't know. It just sucks.
But, now I have a gunshot wound
through my fucking tattoo.
[exhales sharply]
[indistinct chatter in distance]
I think the Taliban
are a bunch of pussies.
'Cause all they like to do
is blow us up.
They don't shoot at us.
At least here.
It's really annoying.
[Miles] Describe the mind-set,
when they do shoot at you.
What, my mind-set?
Uh...
Fun. When I get shot at,
it's fun.
And then it doesn't happen.
It's just a giant
disappointment.
Coming here sucked dick.
But firefights are by far...
the greatest
adrenaline rush ever.
It's better than skydiving.
Now, if I could...
contribute skydiving and sex,
might reach firefight status.
But doubtful.
[muffled dialogue]
[man] My son was moving
like he was going back
toward the compound.
[Miles pants]
[sizzling]
Well, let's go up there.
So...
Ah, shit, they got snipers.
We'll get the snipers, man.
[wind howling]
[soldier sniffles]
[soldier grunts]
[loud explosion in distance]
[gunshots]
[soldier 1] Cease-fire!
[rapid gunshots]
Cody and fucking,
uh, Harper got hit.
[soldier 1] What?
[soldier on radio 1]
[indistinct radio chatter]
-[soldier 1] Are you kidding me?
-[soldier 2] No.
[soldier 3] Hey,
they need a corpsman!
We need a corpsman!
[soldier 4] Corpsman,
to your left.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier 1] Holy fuck!
[soldier on radio 1]
-[soldier 1] Fuck!
-Shit.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier on radio 2]
Roger. Be advised...
Fuck.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier 1] We're staying
in radio connection.
[soldier 2] Hey, Peter,
can you grab me those?
[Miles scoffs]
-[soldier 1] Gotta chill, bro.
-[Miles] Dude.
[muffled chatter]
[Miles] Huh?
[soldier 1] No, no, no.
[engine rumbling]
[rumbling continues]
[soldier 1] Afghanistan
is a beautiful country.
There's flowers
and running water.
And just, beautiful people.
This whole country
pretty much smells like shit.
And I hate it.
That's all there is.
Fucking giant holes
in the ground, everywhere.
And fucking people
shooting at you.
There is nothing to love
about this country.
[man speaking Pashto]
[device beeps]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] We got our man.
Nothing to worry about.
[man speaking Pashto]
[beeping]
[soldier 1] There we go.
Right index.
[soldier 2] I'm a funny guy.
People like me.
[children speaking Pashto]
[boy chuckles, speaks Pashto]
-Ah, you got me.
-[kids laughing]
[soldier on radio] You get
cleaned up before you bed down.
-[indistinct chatter on radio]
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
[soldier on radio] It'll
probably be cleaned up.
Yeah.
-Roger. Up outside.
-Yeah.
[children speaking Pashto]
[soldier] Goddamn, you can still
see the point of fucking art.
[soldier on radio]
...be advised, there are two...
[kids speaking Pashto]
[soldier on radio]
...just chilling, right outside.
[kids laughing]
[kid speaking Pashto]
[speaks Pashto]
[soldier 1] You want one?
Oh, you got one already.
[soldier and kids laugh]
[soldier 1] What are you
fucking doing there?
[coughs]
[soldier 2] You're not
recording that, are you?
[Miles chuckles]
[soldier 2] You, you are?
[soldier coughs]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[Miles laughing]
[overlapping dialogue]
[soldier 1] He's like,
"I'm gonna share this
to the Taliban."
[Miles] You don't, you suck,
not... You don't blow.
What we're gonna do,
is we're gonna play Afghans...
versus the Marines.
[man speaking Pashto]
[all whoop]
[soldier] Okay.
All the kids get on this side.
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier] Hey, Dan, that side.
[all laughing]
[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct chatter continues]
[Miles] Just talk to me.
[muffled chatter]
[kids speaking Pashto]
[overlapping dialogue]
Talk to who? You, or him?
-[Miles] Uh, you.
-Okay.
[Miles] Um, just tell me
when you're ready.
All right. Uh, so, I think we,
we kinda went over
that yesterday,
what we wanted to, uh, to cover.
Right.
[Miles] Um,
did you just wanna start
by telling us,
uh, what led to this?
What you guys had
to start doing this?
-And what's good, you know?
-Okay, sounds good.
Uh, well, what you're looking at
right now
is what we like
to call "Felber Field."
Uh, our...
One of our Marines
in First Platoon,
Lance Corporal Brian Felber,
was critically wounded
in an IED strike
when we first got
to Kajaki Sofla.
And, uh, ever since then,
we've been tracking
his recovery.
Bethesda,
now, he's come a long way
from, from pretty,
uh, devastating wounds.
And we just found out,
uh, that he's been transferred
to outpatient care.
Uh, in order to celebrate that,
we had an annual soccer game
yesterday,
with all the local
national children.
And, uh, the purpose
is kinda twofold.
Um...
When we came to Kajaki Sofla
and secured the area
from the Taliban
for the first time
in several years,
the people started to get
pretty high expectations.
[man] Well, we, we hope...
We hope to, uh, talk with you...
End the war.
[Miles] Hey.
-End the war.
-[soldier speaks Pashto]
[speaks Pashto]
-[Miles] Hey.
-Good.
[soldier 1] End the war.
Color.
Coloring book.
-Come here.
-Coloring book.
[soldier 2] Come on.
[soldier 1] Draw a dog.
-Yeah.
-[Miles laughs]
[soldier 1] Draw a dog.
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Stop the fucking donkey!
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Stop the fucking donkey, bitch.
Get the fuck off. Get off!
Get off the donkey.
Get off!
Get off the fucking donkey.
What the fuck
you got in here, huh?
Huh? What the fuck is this shit?
What's in here?
What's in here?
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Get the fuck outta here, donkey.
What the fuck is this shit?
Huh? Huh?
[soldier 1]
What's going on here, huh?
Where's the fucking Taliban?
[yelling]
Where's the fucking Taliban?
Where's the Tal--
Motherfucker, where you going?
Where's
the fucking Taliban, huh?
-Where's the fucking Taliban?
-[kids laugh]
[soldier 1] Where's the Taliban?
[Miles] Good.
[both speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 in English]
I'm just kidding. Here.
Come here. Chocolate.
[speaks Pashto]
[Miles] He's about to cry.
[chuckles]
[kids laughing]
Chocolate.
[soldier 1 speaking Pashto]
[continues speaking Pashto]
[men speaking Pashto]
[man] Yeah, permanent.
[overlapping dialogue]
[men speaking Pashto]
-[kid wailing]
-[soldier 1] It's okay.
It's okay.
[kid whimpering]
[man 1] No, no.
They say that the hospital...
[kid wailing]
[soldier 1] Gotta pick up
the body bag.
-[soldier 2] That's right.
-[kid wailing]
[soldier 1] Oh.
He needs to grab this thing...
[kid sobbing]
[kid speaking Pashto]
[helicopter engine whirring
in distance]
Warrick.
-[Warrick] What do you need?
-[medic] A pack.
It suits the first part.
[soldier 1] Grab the other side.
[soldier 2] Come on, make sure
we run in feet first, though.
[helicopter engine whirring]
[Miles] Yeah. No one shot him.
They were playing
with a grenade or something.
And it went off.
They said
they were playing with--
They said they were playing
with a cartridge.
-And then it blew up.
-[kid whimpering]
[Miles] So...
[helicopter engine whirring]
[church music playing]
[chaplain] Let us pray.
Almighty God,
we stand before You,
this morning, Lord,
to mourn a comrade, a son,
a friend,
and an American patriot.
I thank you, Lord,
for the willingness
that Lance Corporal
Frankie Watson had to do.
Lord, he did something
that more than 90 percent
of the population would not do,
and that is to volunteer
to serve his country
in a time of war.
I thank You for his service.
And he was one of the ones
that You called
and that You empowered
for the sacred task
of defending the liberty
that You have granted us.
The vast majority of people
in our nation
will live their lives wondering
if they have ever made
a difference in the world.
I thank You, Lord,
that Lance Corporal Watson
never had to wonder about that.
He made a difference
in the lives of his family,
his comrades, and for hundreds
of millions of Americans,
who will never even know
his name,
but benefit
from his unselfish sacrifice.
I pray, Father God,
that You would grant
rest and peace
to Lance Corporal Watson's soul,
as he makes his final trip home.
I pray that You would love
and comfort his grieving family,
and remind them that though pain
endures through the night,
Your word states, that Lord,
that "joy comes in the morning."
I pray, Lord, that You would
give them more grace
than they can ever understand,
and more peace
than they can ever imagine.
I pray for his fellow Marines
and sailors
who, at this moment,
mourn his passing.
Who, yet, but still drive on
to accomplish a mission
that You have called
all of us to.
In Your holy
and saving name, I pray.
Amen.
[wind whooshing]
[chicken clucking]
[soldier 1] Hey,
I'm gonna fuck you up.
[soldier 2] Look what I did
to your cousin.
[soldier 1] All right, man.
What time...
[soldier 3] Over herecadet.
[soldier 2] All right,
work that over here.
[soldier 1] Oh, this thing's
gonna get out.
Off right.
[indistinct chatter]
-[soldier 2] Oh, shit.
-[soldier 1] Move out the way.
Move out the way.
Move out the way.
Bitch!
-[metal clanks]
-[soldier grunts]
[soldier 1] Here we go!
Goddamn it!
-[thuds]
-[soldier 1 laughs]
[soldier 2] Oh!
[soldier 3] All right,
we got you on the head.
-[soldier 1 grunts]
-[all groan]
[soldier 2] Yeah!
[chuckles]
[soldier 2] On the dead cat?
[Miles] No, around the building.
[soldier 2] Make sure
he's good to go.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Good target.
Just like a deer.
[soldier 2] Flip him over.
Hey, anyone bring
a breaching kit?
[soldier 3] Yeah,
I'm gonna go get it.
-[soldier 2] Huh?
-[soldier 3] Yeah.
-Do you have it?
-[soldier 2] No.
[soldier 3] Bring it.
Do we got one?
[soldier 2] No.
-Uh, we don't have any.
-He doesn't have a weapon.
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 3] What can I do?
-He was gonna take a shot.
[soldier sighs]
He didn't have
a gun on him, did he?
Goddamn it.
No, he didn't.
[soldier 1] All right, buddy.
How are you doing today?
-You look like you just got...
-[soldier 2] Just hang in there.
...fucked. Oh, hand.
-[soldier 2] In the hand, dude.
-Right in the fucking hand.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 1] Ooh, through
and through.
[soldier 2]
You got an exit wound?
[soldier 1] Yep, he lived
for a little while.
Probably did, went in
and fucking hit his fucking...
where the liver would be.
[soldier 2] Yeah.
[soldier 3]
[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 2] Mm-hm.
-[soldier 1] What are they...
-What are they talking about?
-[soldier 3] They might get rid
-of the body and hide it.
-[soldier 2] Who is?
[soldier 3] ANA. This is no good
for people to see.
-[soldier 1] All right, again.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
[man speaking Pashto]
["American Woman"
by The Guess Who playing]
[man speaking on laptop]
Those are skin-tight.
How do you get
into those tanks, baby?
[woman on laptop] You could
start by buying me a drink.
[laughs]
[thudding]
[engine rumbling]
[wind howling]
[soldier 1] I mean,
can I borrow that for post?
-[soldier 2] Nope. No.
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
-No, you're not gonna borrow it.
-[solder 2] Come on.
I'm gonna borrow it for post,
'cause I bought it.
[soldier 2] When you're done.
Get fucking--
And then, I'm not gonna
fucking have it again,
'cause you're gonna give it
to somebody else.
[soldier 2] I'll ve it
back to you.
Bitch.
Turn your fucking light on,
faggot.
I just wanna fuck!
[grunting]
[rapid gunshots]
[whooping]
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Shoot three out.
Looks long, looks right.
[beeps]
You need to go for your shot.
Hey, I'm looking around
buildings three,
-buildings two--
-[gunshots]
[soldier 1] Shit!
-[soldier 2] Was that you?
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
[soldier 2] You scared
the shit out of me.
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] What?
-[soldier 3] Oh, shit! Go!
[rapid gunshots]
If I know better,
hey, they're even closer, buddy.
[soldier 2] Don't be an ass.
Just stand back for...
Hey, where's Hardy at?
[soldier 3] He went that way.
Hardy!
Wait one, break, break, Hardy.
Brown.
Yeah. They have RPG waiting
for the fucking shots, man.
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 1] Get in.
-[soldier 2] I'm shot! Doc!
[soldier 1] Call a medic!
Shot to the head.
Left side of head,
toward rear of the head.
How copy?
Hey, somebody... Hey, somebody
carry him out with me.
[soldier 1] Hey,
keep those fires coming.
I got two people
posting weapons on the roof.
Hey, grab this, grab this!
[soldier 2] Hey, watch
his fucking head.
Buddy, go crawl back over here.
[soldier 2] Get the fuck down.
[medic] You're okay, man.
[soldier 1]
Doc's right here, baby.
[soldier 3]
Doc's right here, man.
We're helping you out.
We got you.
[medic] Victim's gunshot
to the ad
goes through and through.
His body's locking up, right?
Eight-eight, two-four.
[soldier 1] We got someone
that will help secure it.
No problem.
Hey, everybody calm down.
-Seven, one-one.
-[soldier 2] Get back on there.
And we're gonna have
to push back.
About 150 meters.
[soldier 1] They're gonna go
give us a grid. In a minute.
As soon as
they give us that grid,
you have to get his ass
out of here, all right?
[soldier 3] Good to go.
I need rounds
to keep coming downrange.
I don't want people
fucking fixing on us.
We need rounds downrange.
Hey, pick out targets, stay low.
He got hit, 'cause he was
on the fucking roof,
and he was standing
straight the fuck up.
I told him once, stay low.
[soldier 1 sniffles]
[loud gunshots]
[soldier 2] Oh, fuck.
[soldier 1] There you go!
Let them motherfuckers have it!
[soldier 2] Let's go, let's go!
I searched, searched.
-[soldier 1] Okay, go!
-[soldier 2] Quick. Move, move.
[soldier 1] Start it up!
[soldier 2] Where are we going?
[soldier 1] Hey, I need somebody
help me get him--
-[rapid gunshots]
-[Leevy groans]
[soldier 2] Oh, hey, hey.
His bdage fell off.
-[soldier 3] Huh?
-[soldier 2] It fell off.
All right, hold on. Oh, shit!
-All right.
-[rapid gunshots]
[Leevy groaning]
[soldier 2] Hey, bud.
Lemme sit him down right here.
-Come on, Leevy. I got you.
-[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] All right,
we got everybody?
-[soldier 3] I got you, brother.
-[soldier 2] Set him down.
[soldier 3] Look out below.
-[soldier 4] Get Roy down!
-[soldier 3] You take mine.
[Miles] He's getting down
right now!
[soldier 2] He's down.
[soldier 3] Come on, Leevy.
Hang on. Hang on, brother.
-[soldier 2] He's down!
-[soldier 3] Hang on, Leevy.
[soldier 2] Hey, we got
to get out of here, bro.
[soldier 3] I know.
This shit came off.
Almost home, buddy.
Almost home, brother.
[sniffles]
Come on, man. Hang in there.
[medic] Okay, buddy.
[soldier 1] Go for 2-1.
[medic] Put a, put a big one on.
-[mumbling]
-[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier 2] Now we're providing
suppressive fire
so we can get those weapons
off the roof, how copy?
[medic] The border's there.
It's around the corner.
[soldier on radio] Charge.
Copy, out.
[soldier 2] Okay.
Up here, too.
[medic] We got support.
I don't see the entrance
and the exit wound.
[soldier 3] If there's no
exit wound,
-it didn't go through.
-[medic] It's still under there.
Hang in there, brother.
[soldier 1] Fuckheads.
[soldier 2] Hey, Manassis, 2-1.
[soldier on radio]
They scanned it, brother.
[soldier 2] Hey,
just for that bird's SA,
so they know
what they're dealing with
on that wound, brk.
In the head,
came through the Kevlar.
It punctured through the head.
I do not have an exit wound
on the other end of the Kevlar.
It appears that it's still
in there. How copy?
[soldier on radio]
Roger. Copy that.
[medic] Hold the top
of his head, Bobby.
Hold the top of his head.
[soldier 2] Leevy,
keep breathing, buddy.
-Keep breathing.
-[medic] Don't push down.
[soldier 2 sniffles]
[soldier 3] Leevy, come on.
[soldier 1]
What are they saying?
[man] They're saying
we cannot see any--
[soldier 3]
Hang in there, Leevy.
[soldier 3] Oh, my god, Lee!
Hang in there!
[soldier 2] Hey, try and get the
casualty out, get him moving.
Come, help some more.
You want someone
on the shoulders?
[soldier 1] Hey,
have we got everybody?
-[Miles] Yeah, we're good.
-[soldier 1] Right, let's go.
-Push around the corner.
-[soldier 2] Where's my rifle?
[soldier 3] Hurry. Get the SAW.
[Miles] Whichay are we going?
This way, this way.
[soldier 1] Hey, let's go.
Push, push, push.
Push, push, push.
[helicopter engine whirring]
[rapid gunshots]
[gunshots continue]
[soldier 1] Come on, Vince!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Hey, the X
is on the enemy position.
The enemy's on the back
of the property!
[gunshots]
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1]
[Miles] What the fuck?
[gunshots]
[Miles sighs]
-[helicopter engine whirring]
-[soldier speaking indistinctly]
[Miles]
-[helicopter whirring]
-[indistinct chatter]
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] What's that?
Hey, we got two guys
on the hill!
Right there!
All right, I'm shooting them!
-[soldier 2] Shoot that bitch.
-[gunshot]
[soldier 3] Let's not agree
to fucking shoot.
[rifle cocks]
-[soldier 1] Do you see 'em?
-[Miles] Yeah!
[gunshot]
[soldier 1] Hey, you see him?
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] Shit, we're good!
-[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier grunts]
[soldier 1] We're moving!
Start moving!
[indistinct chatter]
[helicopter whirring
in distance]
-[helicopter buzzing]
-[soldier 1] Hey, get down!
[soldier 2] Go! Go, go!
They've landed.
[Miles] Let's go.
-[soldier 1] We can go.
-[soldier 2] Go.
-[Miles] Shit.
-[soldier groaning]
[soldier 3]
We're not gonna see him easy!
Those are friendlies!
[soldier 2] Target's our guy.
[soldier 3] I got one guy
on the road, though.
Fuck!
[helicopter engine whirring]
Turquoise, 4-7. Turquoise 4-7.
[soldier coughs]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[man speaking Pashto]
[Miles sighs]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier coughing]
[soldier chuckles]
[soldier 1]
This is a new Christmas CD
coming to you soon, baby.
It's "Jingle Bells." Ready?
Jingleells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six
And eight-hour days, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
Walking in Afghan
With my M4 in my hand
Oh, why is the Taliban
Trying to go and plan
We got pressure plate IDs
Command, poor dead eye, too
We get IDF all day
Recall his rifle at night
Oh, jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
We're running low on food
These FSR suck ass
[chuckles]
All right, I got...
-That's all I have for now.
-[soldier laughs]
-[soldier 1] Man that shit...
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
...is on top of my head.
[soldier 2] Kanye's new prodigy.
Mr. Roland.
[soldier 2 laughs]
[indistinct chatter]
[chatter continues]
-[Miles] Just go.
-Hi.
This is, uh, Lance Corporal
Jacob Marshall.
I just wanna say,
uh, Merry Christmas
to my wife and family.
I love you guys, you know.
-That's all.
-[Miles] All right.
-[soldier 1] All right, where--
-[Miles] All right, aim it
at his face.
We good?
-[soldier 1] Good.
-[soldier 2] Say what?
Hey, Meredith. Hey...
Hey, Mom. Hey, Dad.
Uh, everybody, I'm doing good.
-In Kajaki, Afghanistan.
-[soldiers chuckle]
My boys are taking care of me.
Uh, I just wanted you all
to know I love you.
And, uh, I can't wait
to come home.
Sergeant Gonzales from Kajaki.
Feliz Navidad.
[in Spanish]
[in English]
And see you all soon.
Paul Sean Kennon.
Happy Holidays.
Love you, uh, Natasha, Ryan.
Uh, Mom, Dad, Bryan.
Mama and Papa, I just wanna say
I'll see you guys soon.
I love you.
Uh. I love you, Natasha,
and I'll see you soon.
Hey, uh...
You know what, just...
never mind.
-[Miles] Don't worry about it.
-Yeah.
Is this, uh, I'm sorry--
[low rumbling]
[man 1] You better get
that shit.
-[man 2] Get over here!
-[man 3] More air!
[all whooping]
[man 2] Hey, Roddy,
how do we hear 'em?
[Miles] About to have
a drop right here!
-Air!
-[man 2] Get that! Get that!
[man 3] I think it's time
to get out.
-Shut up.
-[soldier yells]
[explosion]
-[man 2 chuckles]
-[Miles] Holy shit!
[man 2] Was that not
the wrong building?
[Miles] That's the wrong
building.
[explosions]
[Miles] Holy shit!
Yeah, boy!
-Damn, yeah
-[all beatboxing]
We are, we are about to
-Kick it
-Freestyle, freestyle
-Freestyle
-Yeah
-Freestyle, freestyle
-[mumbling]
[all chuckle]
Oh, really
Wait, don't fuck up
the beat again.
[all laughing]
[man 2] Come on, come on.
Give me a beat.
-[man 1] You start, grunt!
-[man 2] I got you. I got you.
[clears throat]
[man 2] Now, while I'm going,
you better be ready.
[overlapping dialogue]
My name is Waldo.
And I'm down from the South, yo.
And this book right here,
we advertising about guns, ho.
-All right, now.
-[Miles chuckling]
-Are you having a problem--
-Richie had a gun
-in the background.
-[all laughing]
Are you having a problem
meeting your expectations?
Do you need to get on that
"next level"?
-[all laughing]
-Oh, shit!
-[men laughing]
-[man 1] Hey, it's the squad--
[man 2] Fuck yo,
bitch-ass nigga!
-Eat a dick!
-[trilling]
[all speaking indistinctly]
[grunts]
Eat a dick!
-Oh!
-What's up?
-Eat a dick!
-What's up?
What's up, head bussas?
We some head bussas
[all grunting]
-[screaming]
-[all laughing]
-[laughing continues]
-Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit.
[man 3] Get back in there!
We some head bussas
White bones pressure
[overlapping chatter]
[chatter continues]
I need to win, nigga.
I need to buy a new one.
I need to win.
[explosion]
-Oh, shit!
-[all laughing]
[soldier 1] Fuck your purity.
[Miles] All right.
Just talk to me.
Don't look at the camera.
Uh...
What's your, uh...
What's your role out here,
as squad leader?
Uh, on this deployment,
a combat engineer's job
is to lead sweep
in front of the patrol.
And, uh, make sure
the rest of that patrol
doesn't hit any IEDs,
anything like that.
Just keep your eyes out
for indicators, command wires,
everything like that.
And, uh, if we do
come across an IED,
to cordon it off,
we make sure everybody gets
a safe distance
away from it,
and everything like that.
The mission of
a Marine Corps Scout Sniper
is detachment of one
or more snipers,
performing an assigned task
of engaging selected targets,
targets of opportunity,
collecting
and recording information,
or a combination of all,
contributing
to the accomplishment
of this Corps GS mission.
[Miles] Okay, um...
Can you say it
in your own words?
Actually, can we do this, uh...
right now, 'cause I'm supposed
to stop here
in like, 30 minutes.
[Miles] It'll be like,
three minutes, or...
All right. Let's go.
[Miles] I'm gonna put this
right here.
[distant indistinct chatter]
-[Miles] Huh?
-Where does this shit go?
[Miles] It'll probably go
to AFN, on the chow hall.
At Leatherneck,
or it'll go to CNN.
-Shit like that.
-Really?
-[Miles] Yeah.
-All right, well, hey.
Let's do this after, then.
[Miles] You don't wanna
do it now?
-No.
-[Miles] Okay.
[camera clanks]
Whoo!
[boy speaking Pashto]
Eh?
[boy speaking Pashto]
[exhaling]
[Miles] I'm becoming, like,
a combat junkie.
Like...
if I don't...
If I don't film combat, and...
I feel like
the patrol's worthless.
[soldier 1] That's awesome.
[soldier 2] Let's go!
Pre-firefight PT.
-[claps]
-Gotta limber up.
-Gotta limber up
-Stay loose.
before we get in a firefight.
There you go.
-[all groaning]
-Come on.
First exercise is gonna be...
-the sun gods.
-Sun gods.
-All right.
-Okay? We'll do, uh...
Do ten, I could count.
-All right, everybody good?
-Oh, yeah.
-I'm ready.
-Starting position.
-[soldier grunts]
-[squad leader] Begin.
One, two, three.
-One...
-[squad leader] Four, five, six,
-seven, eight, nine, ten.
-[soldier exhales sharply]
-Whoo.
-[squad leader] All right.
Good stretch.
Good stretch, guys.
-Good stretch.
-That was good, guys...
The next exercise is gonna be...
the air squats.
In case we gotta leap
tall buildings.
-Yeah.
-Good one, good one.
All right,
I'll count the repetition.
You guys just do it. Ready?
Okay.
One...
[all grunting]
[soldier 1] Oh, just feel
that burn.
Like this, combat stance.
Combat stance.
-Oh, combat stance.
-Oh, yeah.
[all panting]
I'm great...
[all exhale sharply]
All right. That was good,
that was good.
Okay, next exercise
is gonna be...
finger curls.
Finger curls, yeah. For that...
-Trigger control.
-Trigger control.
-Ready?
-Start shooting.
-On me.
-All right.
-On you.
-Tecount.
Let's get ready.
-One, two, three.
-[all] One.
-One, two, three.
-[all] Two.
-One, two, three.
-[all] Three.
-[soldier 1] Yeah!
-[all] One, two, three, four.
One, two, three...
-[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 2] Hey!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 2] Make sure
that doesn't
fucking go through the roof!
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] They're coming up!
-[soldier 2] They're coming up!
-Come on, come on, come on.
-Come on! Come on!
Hey, they're flashing fire.
[soldier 3] Camilo,
get the fuck over here, now!
-[soldier 2] What do you want?
-[Miles] Smoke, right?
[soldier 3]
Hey, we'll grab the smoke!
[soldier 2] All right, go!
Hey, where's the shot flare?
[soldier 3]
Yeah, I got it. Hold on.
[soldier 2] Hurry up.
[rapid gunshots]
-Go!
-[soldier 2] What'll we do?
Bring this fucking fire up!
-[soldier 4] Zero.
-We're in the field!
Bring the fucking fire up!
[soldier 4] What's the distance?
-[gunshot]
-[soldier 1] In the field!
[soldier 2] All right,
we are triggered.
-[soldier 1] We good?
-[soldier 2] Hey!
-[soldier 3] Yeah.
-Don't worry about it.
-What's the distance?
-Ready?
-Go, drop it.
-Distance?
[soldier 2] Three hundred.
-[metal clanks]
-Hey!
-Hey! Get your heads down!
-Hey, get the fuck down!
-Get down!
-200 meters right!
-Let's go!
-[coughs]
Get down!
[soldier mumbles]
-Ready?
-[soldier 4] Hey!
-We're locked in at them!
-[sighs]
-Pipe!
-[thumps]
[man 1] Whoa!
He's just tiring himself out,
and he doesn't even realize it.
[man 2] And he's spinning
out of control.
[man 1] Yeah, I'd grab
one of the lungs
in this case, actually.
[pants]
[both grunt]
[man 1] There you go,
you got it.
[both panting]
[man 2] Hell, yeah.
You have to throw in
your fucking knees.
Get on your knees.
Can you get a terp, uh,
to the radio, for me?
This kid just came over here
after about five minutes,
asking me for something.
He made the "boom" motion
with his hands,
and he said, "Bomb."
[radio beeps]
-[radio beeps]
-Hey, Ali, can you ask this kid
if he knows
where there's a bomb at?
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[radio beeps]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[chuckles, speaks Pashto]
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[speaking Pashto]
[Ali speaking in English
over radio]
-[radio beeps]
-Hey, Ali, can you ask him
why he came up to me
and tell me...
uh, he said "the bomb,"
and then, he tried to tell me
that there was a bomb.
Uh, south of where I'm at
right now.
[radio beeps]
[Ali speaking Pashto]
[boy speaking Pashto]
[Ali speaking in English]
All right, Ali, thanks.
This kid's lying to me.
'Cause he just sat here
and made a sign for a bomb.
-And he said "bomb" twice.
-[man] Oh, you're full of shit.
[soldier 1]
And he pointed to the 611.
[radio beeps]
[Ali on radio]
[soldier 1] All right.
Thanks, Ali.
[boy speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Little fucking liar.
One of the benefits
of being, uh, in Afghanistan.
[Miles] The only benefit
of being in Afghanistan.
[soldier 2] Does that work
for him?
[Miles] You're all accomplices
to this crime.
Oh, are you afraid
I'm gonna shoot you
with this camera?
It doesn't shoot bullets,
I promise.
Why are you so angry?
Cheer up. Salaam alaikum.
[chuckles]
[snickers]
Hey, make sure you get
my third wife.
-Right there.
-[Miles] This one?
That one, right there.
-[Miles] That one?
-[soldier 2] In about ten years
she's definitely gonna be
a keeper.
-[Miles] Oh, I agree.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
[Miles] She just needs
to grow hair.
-Good.
-[Miles] od.
-[chuckles]
-[man] Good.
-[Miles] Good, good.
-[soldier 1] Good.
-[Miles] All right.
-[soldier speaking indistinctly]
[Miles] Terminating footage now.
There's like water on the lens.
That looks pretty cool.
[indistinct chatter in distance]
[soldier 1] It feels good.
[indistinct chatter]
-Here.
-[soldier 2] I smell like
a dirty gym locker.
You are a dirty gym locker.
It's fucking bullshit.
[soldier 1] I'm a dirty woman's
gym locker.
[soldier 3] I would love
a dirty woman's gym locker.
[Miles] Wait, wait.
You're not smoking?
No, bro.
Fuck my life.
[soldier 3] Sorry,
I'm not addicted
to fucking marijuana
like you four.
Ah, whoa.
Yeah, that's why--
"Hey, let me get some.
Let me get some..."
[soldier 3] I only do it
at night, though,
-you fucking idiot.
-"Hey, hey, can I get some--
-Let meet some post, man."
-Do I do it--
[soldier 3] Do I do it
during the day?
-We get to him.
-[soldier 3] Ever?
-It's every night, though.
-Yeah, I know.
-Every night.
-[soldier 2] No shit.
It's at night, though.
[soldier 1]
It's still every night.
-[soldier 2] It keeps me awake.
-"Dude let me got some."
[soldier 2]
'Cause I get paranoid.
At least I don't do it
during the day,
you fucking idiots.
[grunts]
[Miles] Oh, shit. Oh, shit!
[Miles laughing]
Come over here, kids.
We wanna have
a rock fight with you.
[speaking Pashto]
I wanna shoot somebody.
[Miles] Look at all those dudes
on mopeds, dude.
-That's sketchy as shit, dude.
-The guy that shot from--
-[Miles] Look at that.
-Looks annoying, though.
-[Miles] There's like 18 dudes.
-[soldier 1] Looks like...
-Yeah.
-[Miles] Hey, 18 dudes on bikes.
[chuckling]
[soldier 1] Yeah. 18 dudes.
[Miles]ighteen not being
an exaggeration.
-I'm not sure.
-There was quite a few, though.
[soldier 1] If I see an AK,
I'm gonna level them
with this .240.
[soldier 2] They're going fast
as shit, too. Look at them.
[Miles] They actually burst
through that target.
[soldier 3] Yeah,
look at them all.
[Mile] Dude,
that is Taliban as shit.
Um, there are local
nationals out there.
They, uh, seem to want us here.
Um, I mean, they have a lot
of problems on their own.
And, uh,
they're looking forward to us,
you know, helping them out.
And, uh, I mean, that's what
we're trying to do, so.
Oh, you do?
[Miles] Get the fuck out
of the way, Seven.
Seven.
[Miles] Get the fuck out
of the... You're in my shot.
-I'm interviewing him.
-Oh, sorry.
-[Miles] Move.
-No, I'll just be... quiet.
-[Miles] Move.
-I just gotta do this.
-You talk?
-Yeah.
Okay.
[clattering]
[Miles] Fucking idiot.
All right.
So, um...
[sighs]
[Miles clicks tongue]
What, uh, what's next?
Uh, next here?
Um, so far, we just keep,
uh, building,
you know, the relationship
between the locals.
[man on speaker]
Take that T-shirt off.
[soldier 1]
Everyone has that T-shirt.
[man on speaker]
Tell him to pick up his...
[garbled radio chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] He's holding it up
in the air.
-[soldier speaking Pashto]
-[man on radio] All right,
I'll give you one break.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 1] Tell him to stop
right there.
[soldier 2 speaks Pashto]
[Miles] God, I hope we still
have more recycled part.
I need plenty of stock.
[soldier 1] Go.
Down on your chest.
[soldier 2] Lemme see
your hands.
Stand up. Stand up.
Hands. Down on your knees.
I want him to be... I want both
of his hands down on the ground.
-[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
-I wanna see his hands.
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 in English] Down.
[Miles] Where is it, Vera?
[soldier 1] Pull it down.
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Yeah,
and when you travel...
[soldier 2] You have a problem
down with me?
[soldier 2 speaking Pashto]
[man on radio] The red wire...
[interpreter speaking Pashto]
[woman speaking Pashto]
[interpreter] And she was just
an innocent girl.
[speaking Pashto]
And she's saying,
"I'm gonna be dying soon.
Because of him,
he passed away from me."
[camerawoman]
Tell her, tell her,
no, she's not gonna die.
Tell her we're here to help her,
and that we're very sorry.
[interpreter speaking Pashto]
-[woman speaking Pashto]
-[interpreter] "Thank God
-you are patient with me."
-[speaking Pashto]
[interpreter in English]
"I have two children with him,
I mean, what should I do?
I mean, nobody of my family
can take care
of those two little kids."
[soldier 1] Tell her,
I can do it for her.
[woman speaking Pashto]
-[soldier 2] We should go.
-[soldier 1] Yeah, go ahead.
Hey, uh, tell him
we need every man
in this whole group of compounds
to my right now.
-And yes, women, too.
-[man speaking Pashto]
We have that, too. All women.
[man speaking Pashto]
-[soldier 1] Okay.
-[indistinct radio chatter]
You know why we're here, right?
It's because there's a very
high-value individual here.
I don't care, right now,
about their customs
or their courtesies.
I want every single man
that is here,
-I want them out here.
-[man speaking Pashto]
-Hey, bud.
-[man speaking Pashto]
No, no, no...
Hey, if every man
does not come out,
we're gonna go in, and pull
every single one of them out.
[indistinct chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] What do we got?
[man on radio] Turban,
uh, his head wrapped
with a black, uh, turban, and...
[soldier 1] Right here.
All green, black vest,
white turban.
[man on radio]Like a white dot
on top of his head.
[soldier 1] You. Come here.
[woman on radio] Yeah, roger.
-Roger.
-Yes.
[woman on radio] It looks like
we just broke up
a Taliban meeting.
[soldier 1] This is a Taliban
meeting, true. It sure is.
We need to fucking POI
all these guys and take 'em all.
[soldier 1] You, here.
[soldier 2] And pull everybody
in green, okay?
[soldier 3] Hey,
what's the deal?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 2] Get everybody
in green.
[soldier 3] All right,
he's fucking...
[man on radio] We still
don't know what's going on...
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 3] I can go over there,
and do those three fuckers.
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier 3] Do you want
the three?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Over there.
[soldier 3] I'm talking
about going over there
and do those three.
[soldier 2] Let's take him
to the back.
[soldier 1] Hey, Jamal.
All right, coming your way.
Hey. We got this guy coming.
Hey, Thomas.
-When we get back to it...
-They're not talking.
-What's up?
-They're not talking.
-All right. Everybody come here.
-[soldier 2] Hey.
[soldie3] Be prepared...
[soldier 2] Hey, they're sending
3rd for aid support.
[soldier 1] All right, good.
-[soldier 3] Hey.
-[soldier 1] Good shit.
I need a lighter.
-We got in past the red light.
-A man with ragged clothes...
[soldier 4] Classic, though.
[Miles] The guy in the green
was just, like, smiling.
It was weird.
[sniffles]
[soldier 4] Sir?
Because he's,
he's one of the inside men.
[soldier 2] Hey, look at where
he was sitting, too.
He was sitting at a pretty,
kinda, like central location,
where everybody's
paying attention to him.
He's the head shit.
[soldier on radio]
Hey, that's a solid break.
I don't... a day out,
it could be less, a day less,
means one dead found.
[soldier 2] Check this out.
[soldier 3] But no one's
talking to him.
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Get them all inside.
[soldier 3] You got it,
you got it secured, man?
[soldier 2] Yeah,
I got it secured.
-[device beeps]
-[dogs barking]
[soldier 3] Whoa, bro.
-[soldier 2] Hey, look at that.
-[soldier 1] Take care.
[Miles] It's a goat.
-Yeah, might be a goat.
-Is it a goat?
[Miles] It's a goat.
[soldier 1] No wires
running through it?
[soldier 2] No, I don't see any.
I got something
on the side, man.
[soldier 2] So,
I think we're good.
[soldier 3] Looks like peanuts.
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1] Get him away
from the damn door.
[soldier 2] Hey.
Get on fucking back there.
[soldier 4] Hey, don't look.
Don't look.
-Hey, guys. Turn, turn around.
-[soldier 3] Hey.
Don't look. Don't look.
-[soldier 2] Over here, Miles.
-They go for you, sir.
-[Miles] Hey, hey! You!
-[soldier 3] I got it, hey.
[soldier 2] Hey,
sit your fucking ass down.
Hey, can anyone
come and help with this?
[soldier 1] We're gonna have
to have, like, a...
[Miles] Wow, that was good.
[soldier 1] Hey, Stuart.
Can I relay with Six,
to get a loader come in
and have him bring us all
some water?
-[Stuart] I already did, buddy.
-All right, man.
You said it.
And we're not allowed
to say that shit.
-[soldier 3] No, I'm not.
-I know that.
[soldier 2] Yeah, but...
[soldier 2] Oh, yeah.
[chuckles]
[man on radio]
To, uh, send a patrol to, uh,
take in those guys.
[soldier 3] Tell him
to come here.
We have 360 degrees security.
And they all look
innocent anyways.
-[Miles] Say it again?
-[chuckles]
You fucker.
Yeah, ask me again, then.
[Miles] What do you think?
-About these guys?
-[Miles] Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm, I'm jaded. I'm...
I think these guys
are all just hanging out.
I don't think
they're bad guys, but...
when we kill 'em,
we see the same dudes
in the same clothes.
So, who knows?
You wanna see it?
[soldier groans]
It'll be easy
to get me in trouble, Arty.
Your name is Frank?
-Yes, sir.
-What does it mean?
-[soldier sighs]
-[Frank speaks indistinctly]
Therefore,
it's not a real a birth name.
I need to do some thinking.
[man] Allahu akbar.
Allahu akbar.
[man chanting]
[chanting continues]
[squad leader]
Bring it in real close,
so I can get this over with.
We got everybody?
Overall, patrol didn't go
as planned
and everybody knows
I'm not gonna be the dead horse.
We sat there
and we got the cordon.
And we had
suspicious individuals,
looked like a Taliban meeting.
I have, to this...
for the rest of my fucking
deployment, say it was.
We can't control that. Whatever.
It wasn't how we planned,
but everybody reacted good.
We'd be around, you know.
[squad leader]
What was supposed to happen
went to, uh, what did happen.
Um, good job overall, and uh...
That's all I got.
So, all those guys
are fucking...
All those guys are free to go.
[overlapping dialogue]
[squad leader]
Every fucking one of 'em.
Are they pissed?
-[soldier 1] I would be pissed.
-[soldier 2 chuckles]
So, mate...
that's our fucking role today.
Um, that's it. Do what you do.
[engine whirring loudly]
[whirring continues]
[all cheering]
[soldier 1] Look at that back.
[soldier 2] Look at that,
fucking motivation right there.
Look at that.
Oh, check out this back.
[soldier 1] What's that shit?
What's that shit?
[soldier 2] Yes, sir!
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 3 cheers]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 2 yells]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-[soldier 2 grunting]
-[gruntincontinues]
-[soldier 1] Get some!
-Get some!
-[soldier 2] Hell, yeah!
-[soldier 1] Yeah!
-[soldier 2 groans]
-[soldier 1] We're going up!
-[soldier 2 yells]
[both screaming]
[both cheering]
[soldier 2] Get it!
Get it! Yeah!
[yelling]
[all laughing]
-[soldier 2 screaming]
-[soldier 3] One, two!
-Three, four, five.
-[men whooping]
[all chatter]
-[soldier 1] Get some! Get some!
-[soldier 2 grunting loudly]
-[soldier 2] That's about ten!
-[soldier 1] Get some!
[soldier 2 screaming]
[soldier 2 whping]
[soldier 1] Check.
[engine whirring loudly]
-[whirring continues]
-[soldier exhales sharply]
[soldier panting]
[fire crackling]
[soft thud]
-[soldier 1] You gotta hit it.
-[soldier 2] Hit it. Oh, yeah.
Oh, god, no.
[muffled cough]
So here we are,
staying in Afghanistan,
Patrol Base Alcatraz.
With two dudes, whose names
I'm not gonna mention.
[inhales sharply]
Luckily, for us,
Afghanistan's a hash farm.
[soldier 2] You keep calling it
a hash farm.
[soldier 1] What do you think?
This is risky as possible.
[man singing indistinctly]
[inhales]
[soldier 1] Oh, yeah.
[Miles chuckles]
[soldier 1] Dude, I'm way
too fucked up to be on camera.
[Miles] Someone spit some
fucking rhymes.
No, ask me... Interview me
while we're fucked up.
[Miles] I'm gonna put it
in a movie.
-Do you think, uh...
-[chuckles]
Did you ever think
you were gonna be deployed?
To something like this
right now?
-Yeah.
-Yeah. All right, well,
to be quite frank with you,
Mr. Lawyer,
I, uh... No. Fuck no, man.
You know, you join
the Marine Corps,
you think the Marine Corp is
like a bunch of perfect people,
-you know.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
That don't do anything bad,
don't curse.
And they're jusreally
squared away killers, you know.
And then,
the Marine Corps is filled up
with the most fucked up
individuals I've ever met.
-Yeah.
-[soldier 2] You know?
Just like me, you know?
[chuckles]
[soldier 1] Sir.
[Miles] These guys are like...
[soldier 1] Hey.
Salaam.
[Miles] Salaam alaikum.
-[man] Salaam!
-Well, what's going on out here?
-[man 1] Come in.
-[man 2] Come now.
-[man 1] Sure great to see you.
-[man 2] Hello. Good morning.
Hello. Good morning.
[Miles] What's up?
[indistinct chatter]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] Hey, hey, hey.
Get this, get this.
[man speaking Pashto]
This a machine gun.
One Talib, we shoot him
with machine gun.
-Oh, yeah? Let me see.
-Yeah.
[Miles] Tell him to, uh,
prove one.
[man speaking Pashto]
-Come.
-Bring it over?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 2] Uh, here, hey.
[laughs]
-[soldier 2] Take this.
-[man 1] Oh, no, no, no.
[soldier 2] I can't fucking
be carrying this shit around.
[Mile] Hey, be careful
with that thing.
[soldier 2] Yeah, grunt.
[man speaking Pashto]
Hey, do not blow
anyone's head off.
No, I'm not. This is the safety?
-[all] Yeah.
-[soldier 2] Safety?
[all] Yeah, yeah.
Boom, boom, and then...
-[man 1] No...
-Yeah.
[man 1] This one worked,
they changed it.
[soldier 1] No, no, no.
It's good.
[men speaking Pashto]
[men continue speaking Pashto]
[all laughing]
[Miles] He's probably thinking,
"This guy cannot smoke at all."
[chuckles]
I don't think this guy
can outsmoke me at all.
[men speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1]
They're making fun of me.
Hey!
[soldier 1] Red? My eyes?
[soldier chuckling]
It's good, man.
Gunner shooting the Taliban,
the Sangin.
[man 1] Radio, to me.
-[crackles]
-[action music plays]
[Miles] That is
an intense firefight.
-[soldier 1] That's a jock.
-[Miles chuckles]
[indistinct chatter]
[men speaking Pashto]
[Miles] What's with the music?
[man 1] Music, come on.
[indistinct chatter]
[Miles] This is
a recruiting video, isn't it?
[indistinct chatter]
This is Afghani, ain't it?
[man 1] Yeah. Commander.
[Miles] Commando!
[soldier] You know, how awesome
would combat be
if there's a rise against
point or something,
and some kind of like,
rock band,
where you fucking just make
it look like someone's dead?
[squad leader] He's gonna be
the point man.
-He's gonna be our rear guard.
-[soldier 1] Okay.
[squad leader] Whatever
the enemy has planned,
by the grace of God...
they're not gonna succeed.
Let us pray.
Father, in the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth...
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Right, get support.
[soldier 2] Back up.
[rapid gunshots]
-Pipe!
-[gunshots]
-[soldier 1] On that truck!
-[rifle cocks]
-[soldier 1] Twelve o' clock!
-[gunshots]
[distorted dialogue]
Too close!
Smack, shift! This side!
[soldier 2]
Where's he coming from?
Out of that square!
Right in front of us
on the hole!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Hey!
You see the smoke
right in front of us?
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 1] See that
-fucking square?
-[soldier 2] Yeah!
[soldier 1]
Shoothe fucking square!
[rapid gunshots]
Down! Down!
Not that square,
up to the left of it.
[explosion]
[all cheering]
[soldier 1]
Fuck you, motherfuckers!
-[soldier 2] He missed it.
-[soldier 3] Fuck, man.
-You gotta get it in there.
-[Miles] He missed it!
[soldier 2] They were looking
in the completely wrong spot.
[Miles] Fucking run!
Fucking run!
-[soldier 3] Yeah!
-[Miles] Run, bitch!
Oh, god.
This is the point
where you just start...
[soldier 5] Shooting people.
...blowing everything up.
[rocks clattering]
-And they're just--
-[soldier 4] I'm good.
It's not worth it,
just shoot everything, dude.
Blow every damn thing up
around here.
They'll get the idea.
[distant indistinct chatter]
[men shouting]
[soldier in distance]
Hey! Hey, we got it!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Get inside!
[soldier 2]
Hey, tell them to start.
[rapid gunshots]
[indistinct shouting]
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] Fall out!
-[Miles] Hey, we got boarders
-in that compound!
-[soldier 1] I know.
-[child sobbing]
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go!
-[soldier 2] Fuck you!
-[soldier 3] Go, go, go!
-[gunshot]
-[Miles] Jesus fuckin--
[soldier 3] Whoa!
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] Jesus fucking...
[rapid gunshots]
-[rapid gunshots continue]
-[Miles] Shit.
[soldier 2] Use gunshots!
[soldier 1] What?
[Miles] Hey, gunshot!
Everybody, get in, get in!
-[soldier 1] What?
-[soldier 2] Snipers!
[Miles] Sniper! Holy shit!
[soldier 1] I don't know,
where did that come from?
[soldier 2] Hey! We took
a round right there! Gunshot!
-[gunshot]
-[soldier 1] Oh, fuck!
-[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 1] Shit!
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier grunts]
-[soldier 3] He's dead!
He's dead!
No, get him out to Two!
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go.
-[Miles] Hey, I'm hit!
-Hey, I'm hit.
-[soldier 2] Come on!
-[soldier 1] Hey.
-[soldier 2] Gunshot!
[soldier 4] Get him out of here!
-[soldier groaning]
-[soldier 1] You go grab him!
[soldier 2]
You're fucking gone, man!
-[Miles] Hauser!
-[Hauser sighs deeply]
-[soldier] You're good, Hauser!
-[Miles] Hey, I'm bleeding.
-[soldier 2] Let's go!
-[soldier 3] In the house!
In the high compound!
-In the compound!
-[Hauser panting]
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Get him to the COC!
-[Hauser groans]
-He's hit.
[soldier 3] Go!
[soldier 2] Get him in!
[Miles] Hey,
I'm fucking bleeding.
Don't, don't...
In their way, 'cause...
You're not on auto.
[distant rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] All right,
this motherfucker's bleeding.
We got him in the COC right now.
We're all huddled in here.
'Cause our battalion
doesn't feel that we need air.
[soldier 1] But, yeah.
There's everyone back there.
Gotta love the little room.
-[groans]
-[soldier 1] Everybody,
say hi to MTV.
[soldier 2] One of us just go
out there, and fucking
tell Charles
to shoot the cars down,
so I thought, "Fuck it."
-Fucking death, man.
-You have some five mil.
Well, the blood is fucking...
-It stopped flowing already.
-[soldier 2] How you feeling?
[soldier 1]
I'd like some action.
[soldier 2]
It's fucking stupid, dude.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 3] Yeah, it is.
I don't know
what the fuck's going on.
[soldier 2]
Who the fuck is there?
Who the fuck is anything?
He asked, said Fazaj, fucking...
[soldier 3] I don't know
why Matt isn't here yet.
We got some nice fucking...
We're right here by ourselves.
[soldier 2] You just realized
that shit, man?
-[soldier 1] Fucking shrapnel.
-Is everyone good in here?
[Miles] There was sniper fire.
I felt it went ght fucking
by me and hit the ground.
-[soldier 2] Get it done.
-[medic] Uh-huh.
[medic] You got shrapnel
in yours, sit down.
Combat camera,
let me see your face.
[medic] Shrapnel in your face.
[clattering]
-[Miles] Yeah.
-[medic] On your face.
Look. It's gonna be
the fastest medevac ever.
-All right.
-We're still taking indirect.
We're still taking small arms.
We have to get him on the bird.
As fast as possible.
Where's the bird landing?
Some place.
We have to be fast.
-Oh, man.
-All right?
-I got it.
-You good?
-[Miles] I'm good.
-You good?
[soldier 1] Go, let's go.
[soldier 2]
Grab this, grab this.
Grab it in front of him.
[soldier 3] Where are we
gonna stop, then?
Does it burn?
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier grunts]
[soldier 2]
What are you doing, idiot?
-Stop right here till it lands.
-[Miles] Stop on the bird.
[soldier 2] Stop right here
till it lands.
Right here.
We're right behind the bird
for right now.
-[soldier 1] Set him down.
-[soldier 2] Get him this way.
Get him in the steepest one,
guys.
[soier 1] 'Scuse me.
[Hauser groans]
[soldier 2] How you doing,
brother?
[soldier 3] Hauser,
how you feeling, man?
[soldier 4] You're going home,
manI fucking love you, man.
-Hauser, how you doing, buddy?
-[Hauser] Good.
Breathing all right?
[helicopter engine whirring]
-[soldier 1] Go, go, go!
-[soldier 2] Go!
[soldier 1]
Advance to the fucking bird.
[soldier 2] Watch the bird!
Watch the bird!
[soldier 1] Run!
[soldier 3] Let's go.
Come on, go!
[helicopter engine whirring]
[muffled yelling]
[soldier 1] Go!
[indistinct chatter]
Go!
[helicopter engine revving]
[Miles] How you doing, buddy?
[panting]
Another day, man. Another day.
[distant laughter]
[soldier] So, what happened
to you today?
Yeah, I got fucking...
shrapnel in my head.
Just... just a boo-boo.
Uh...
I don't, I don't wanna...
I don't want any more combat.
It's like, I'm good after this.
[soldier] You ready to go home,
aren't you?
Yeah.
[soldier] I think everybody
is, today.
How you feeling?
I don't know.
Scared.
I mean, I'm fine now, but...
when it was happening,
I was like...
"What the fuck, dude?"
I never thought that...
they'd get that close, you know.
I know, I never thought
they'd hit us in the compound.
[soldier] Where were you
when that happened?
[coughs]
I was, uh...
over that side.
But, trucks, sniper fucking...
just missed me, hit the ground.
And I was like, "Holy shit."
And then, fucking...
[distant chatter]
And then, fucking...
They fucking hit us with a...
30 mike-mike, exploded.
Grenade launcher.
Right? Grenade launcher?
I'm, I'm a cameraman.
I don't know.
I don't know
what that shit's called.
So...
[clears throat]
I fucking...
I saw the guy that got hit.
Hauser.
They started dragging him.
And, uh, and anyways,
I was bleeding.
And, uh...
[distant yelling]
What's going on?
Anyway.
[clicks tongue]
Uh, so, I was bleeding.
And then, I was like...
I knew I wasn't hurt that bad.
I knew it was just a cut.
[indistinct chatter in distance]
But I was still scared.
I just kept filming, and uh...
if you looked through
the camera...
When you look through
the camera, and...
the viewfinder, it's almost
like, "It's not happening."
You know.
It's almost like it's a movie.
You're just watching a movie.
I want you to meet the men
of First Battalion
Sixth Marine Regiment.
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Reloading!
[soldier 2] Gets you
out of nowhere...
I'm in a sleeping bag, still.
So, all of a sudden,
you hear the flaresoing off,
RPG, then,
fires just start going off.
[explosion]
Just to the northwest of us,
across the Helmand River,
they have a ridgeline up there.
And there's caves
in the ridgeline,
that they'll crawl into.
And they engage us from there.
[rapid gunshots]
There's guns and ammo.
By the time,
like, after a couple hours,
we were like...
Probably had a hundred,
still left for a .50 cal,
and that was it.
[rapid gunshots]
It's that really bad out,
real quick.
[rapid gunshots]
[indistinct chatter]
Slow it down!
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] Slow it down!
-[soldier 2] What?
-[explosion]
-[soldier groans]
[soldier 1] IDF 30mm grenades,
hitting inside the compound.
Getting close, real close.
I mean, we took a casualty.
Uh, took a couple casualties.
You know, you hear about
people being battle-tested.
This one tested the boys.
That video, most of it shot
by young, Lance Corporal
Jacob Lagoze.
All of the wounded, we are told,
have recovered
or are returning to duty.
[soldier] Hey,
ex-cal's on the way!
-But listen to...
-[rapidunshots]
Just stand back over here.
[soldier 1] Fucking 91.
That first compound
looked all fucked up,
you see it?
[Miles] Yeah.
[soldier 1] You can get
out here, dude.
-You can get a better shot.
-[soldier 2] Shit.
[explosion]
-[soldier 2] Fuck, yeah.
-[rapid gunshots]
[laughing]
[soldier 2] Yeah!
[rapid gunshots]
Fuck, yes!
That had to be one
of the coolest fucking things,
-I have ever seen.
-Yeah.
[soldier on radio]They have all
this shit on video, goddamn it.
-[all chuckle]
-[soldier 2] It's all...
-It's all there, brother.
-Oh, it's all there, brother.
[Miles exhales]
-[soldier 1] Yeah, so...
-[soldier 2] Look here.
[soldier sighs]
[soldier 2] Motherfuckers.
Whoo! Shot my pack.
[soldier laughs]
[Miles] That's probably the one
that ricocheted right by me.
[soldier 2] Am I happy
to see you.
-[soldier 1] Man, we found...
-[Miles laughs]
-...this big ass fucking hole.
-Whoo! That was a close one.
[soldier 1] I was standing
at west OP.
I was just chilling there.
And then, out of nowhere,
I get shot by this sniper.
The bullet goes through
my Marine Corp tattoo.
[chuckles]
And, uh, it comes out
of my chest.
Right here.
And the bullet
gets lodged into my jaw.
I don't think
there's any more that,
anything more remote
than that shit, man.
It shot, it was my only tattoo
at the time.
It was my first tattoo,
and it was a mote tattoo.
And I always hated it
before that.
Just because, fucking...
I feel like I'm branded
with the Marine Corps.
I don't know. It just sucks.
But, now I have a gunshot wound
through my fucking tattoo.
[exhales sharply]
[indistinct chatter in distance]
I think the Taliban
are a bunch of pussies.
'Cause all they like to do
is blow us up.
They don't shoot at us.
At least here.
It's really annoying.
[Miles] Describe the mind-set,
when they do shoot at you.
What, my mind-set?
Uh...
Fun. When I get shot at,
it's fun.
And then it doesn't happen.
It's just a giant
disappointment.
Coming here sucked dick.
But firefights are by far...
the greatest
adrenaline rush ever.
It's better than skydiving.
Now, if I could...
contribute skydiving and sex,
might reach firefight status.
But doubtful.
[muffled dialogue]
[man] My son was moving
like he was going back
toward the compound.
[Miles pants]
[sizzling]
Well, let's go up there.
So...
Ah, shit, they got snipers.
We'll get the snipers, man.
[wind howling]
[soldier sniffles]
[soldier grunts]
[loud explosion in distance]
[gunshots]
[soldier 1] Cease-fire!
[rapid gunshots]
Cody and fucking,
uh, Harper got hit.
[soldier 1] What?
[soldier on radio 1]
[indistinct radio chatter]
-[soldier 1] Are you kidding me?
-[soldier 2] No.
[soldier 3] Hey,
they need a corpsman!
We need a corpsman!
[soldier 4] Corpsman,
to your left.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier 1] Holy fuck!
[soldier on radio 1]
-[soldier 1] Fuck!
-Shit.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier on radio 2]
Roger. Be advised...
Fuck.
[soldier on radio 1]
[soldier 1] We're staying
in radio connection.
[soldier 2] Hey, Peter,
can you grab me those?
[Miles scoffs]
-[soldier 1] Gotta chill, bro.
-[Miles] Dude.
[muffled chatter]
[Miles] Huh?
[soldier 1] No, no, no.
[engine rumbling]
[rumbling continues]
[soldier 1] Afghanistan
is a beautiful country.
There's flowers
and running water.
And just, beautiful people.
This whole country
pretty much smells like shit.
And I hate it.
That's all there is.
Fucking giant holes
in the ground, everywhere.
And fucking people
shooting at you.
There is nothing to love
about this country.
[man speaking Pashto]
[device beeps]
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1] We got our man.
Nothing to worry about.
[man speaking Pashto]
[beeping]
[soldier 1] There we go.
Right index.
[soldier 2] I'm a funny guy.
People like me.
[children speaking Pashto]
[boy chuckles, speaks Pashto]
-Ah, you got me.
-[kids laughing]
[soldier on radio] You get
cleaned up before you bed down.
-[indistinct chatter on radio]
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
[soldier on radio] It'll
probably be cleaned up.
Yeah.
-Roger. Up outside.
-Yeah.
[children speaking Pashto]
[soldier] Goddamn, you can still
see the point of fucking art.
[soldier on radio]
...be advised, there are two...
[kids speaking Pashto]
[soldier on radio]
...just chilling, right outside.
[kids laughing]
[kid speaking Pashto]
[speaks Pashto]
[soldier 1] You want one?
Oh, you got one already.
[soldier and kids laugh]
[soldier 1] What are you
fucking doing there?
[coughs]
[soldier 2] You're not
recording that, are you?
[Miles chuckles]
[soldier 2] You, you are?
[soldier coughs]
[boy speaks Pashto]
[Miles laughing]
[overlapping dialogue]
[soldier 1] He's like,
"I'm gonna share this
to the Taliban."
[Miles] You don't, you suck,
not... You don't blow.
What we're gonna do,
is we're gonna play Afghans...
versus the Marines.
[man speaking Pashto]
[all whoop]
[soldier] Okay.
All the kids get on this side.
[man speaking Pashto]
[soldier] Hey, Dan, that side.
[all laughing]
[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct chatter continues]
[Miles] Just talk to me.
[muffled chatter]
[kids speaking Pashto]
[overlapping dialogue]
Talk to who? You, or him?
-[Miles] Uh, you.
-Okay.
[Miles] Um, just tell me
when you're ready.
All right. Uh, so, I think we,
we kinda went over
that yesterday,
what we wanted to, uh, to cover.
Right.
[Miles] Um,
did you just wanna start
by telling us,
uh, what led to this?
What you guys had
to start doing this?
-And what's good, you know?
-Okay, sounds good.
Uh, well, what you're looking at
right now
is what we like
to call "Felber Field."
Uh, our...
One of our Marines
in First Platoon,
Lance Corporal Brian Felber,
was critically wounded
in an IED strike
when we first got
to Kajaki Sofla.
And, uh, ever since then,
we've been tracking
his recovery.
Bethesda,
now, he's come a long way
from, from pretty,
uh, devastating wounds.
And we just found out,
uh, that he's been transferred
to outpatient care.
Uh, in order to celebrate that,
we had an annual soccer game
yesterday,
with all the local
national children.
And, uh, the purpose
is kinda twofold.
Um...
When we came to Kajaki Sofla
and secured the area
from the Taliban
for the first time
in several years,
the people started to get
pretty high expectations.
[man] Well, we, we hope...
We hope to, uh, talk with you...
End the war.
[Miles] Hey.
-End the war.
-[soldier speaks Pashto]
[speaks Pashto]
-[Miles] Hey.
-Good.
[soldier 1] End the war.
Color.
Coloring book.
-Come here.
-Coloring book.
[soldier 2] Come on.
[soldier 1] Draw a dog.
-Yeah.
-[Miles laughs]
[soldier 1] Draw a dog.
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Stop the fucking donkey!
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Stop the fucking donkey, bitch.
Get the fuck off. Get off!
Get off the donkey.
Get off!
Get off the fucking donkey.
What the fuck
you got in here, huh?
Huh? What the fuck is this shit?
What's in here?
What's in here?
[speaks Pashto]
[in English]
Get the fuck outta here, donkey.
What the fuck is this shit?
Huh? Huh?
[soldier 1]
What's going on here, huh?
Where's the fucking Taliban?
[yelling]
Where's the fucking Taliban?
Where's the Tal--
Motherfucker, where you going?
Where's
the fucking Taliban, huh?
-Where's the fucking Taliban?
-[kids laugh]
[soldier 1] Where's the Taliban?
[Miles] Good.
[both speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 speaking Pashto]
[soldier 1 in English]
I'm just kidding. Here.
Come here. Chocolate.
[speaks Pashto]
[Miles] He's about to cry.
[chuckles]
[kids laughing]
Chocolate.
[soldier 1 speaking Pashto]
[continues speaking Pashto]
[men speaking Pashto]
[man] Yeah, permanent.
[overlapping dialogue]
[men speaking Pashto]
-[kid wailing]
-[soldier 1] It's okay.
It's okay.
[kid whimpering]
[man 1] No, no.
They say that the hospital...
[kid wailing]
[soldier 1] Gotta pick up
the body bag.
-[soldier 2] That's right.
-[kid wailing]
[soldier 1] Oh.
He needs to grab this thing...
[kid sobbing]
[kid speaking Pashto]
[helicopter engine whirring
in distance]
Warrick.
-[Warrick] What do you need?
-[medic] A pack.
It suits the first part.
[soldier 1] Grab the other side.
[soldier 2] Come on, make sure
we run in feet first, though.
[helicopter engine whirring]
[Miles] Yeah. No one shot him.
They were playing
with a grenade or something.
And it went off.
They said
they were playing with--
They said they were playing
with a cartridge.
-And then it blew up.
-[kid whimpering]
[Miles] So...
[helicopter engine whirring]
[church music playing]
[chaplain] Let us pray.
Almighty God,
we stand before You,
this morning, Lord,
to mourn a comrade, a son,
a friend,
and an American patriot.
I thank you, Lord,
for the willingness
that Lance Corporal
Frankie Watson had to do.
Lord, he did something
that more than 90 percent
of the population would not do,
and that is to volunteer
to serve his country
in a time of war.
I thank You for his service.
And he was one of the ones
that You called
and that You empowered
for the sacred task
of defending the liberty
that You have granted us.
The vast majority of people
in our nation
will live their lives wondering
if they have ever made
a difference in the world.
I thank You, Lord,
that Lance Corporal Watson
never had to wonder about that.
He made a difference
in the lives of his family,
his comrades, and for hundreds
of millions of Americans,
who will never even know
his name,
but benefit
from his unselfish sacrifice.
I pray, Father God,
that You would grant
rest and peace
to Lance Corporal Watson's soul,
as he makes his final trip home.
I pray that You would love
and comfort his grieving family,
and remind them that though pain
endures through the night,
Your word states, that Lord,
that "joy comes in the morning."
I pray, Lord, that You would
give them more grace
than they can ever understand,
and more peace
than they can ever imagine.
I pray for his fellow Marines
and sailors
who, at this moment,
mourn his passing.
Who, yet, but still drive on
to accomplish a mission
that You have called
all of us to.
In Your holy
and saving name, I pray.
Amen.
[wind whooshing]
[chicken clucking]
[soldier 1] Hey,
I'm gonna fuck you up.
[soldier 2] Look what I did
to your cousin.
[soldier 1] All right, man.
What time...
[soldier 3] Over herecadet.
[soldier 2] All right,
work that over here.
[soldier 1] Oh, this thing's
gonna get out.
Off right.
[indistinct chatter]
-[soldier 2] Oh, shit.
-[soldier 1] Move out the way.
Move out the way.
Move out the way.
Bitch!
-[metal clanks]
-[soldier grunts]
[soldier 1] Here we go!
Goddamn it!
-[thuds]
-[soldier 1 laughs]
[soldier 2] Oh!
[soldier 3] All right,
we got you on the head.
-[soldier 1 grunts]
-[all groan]
[soldier 2] Yeah!
[chuckles]
[soldier 2] On the dead cat?
[Miles] No, around the building.
[soldier 2] Make sure
he's good to go.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Good target.
Just like a deer.
[soldier 2] Flip him over.
Hey, anyone bring
a breaching kit?
[soldier 3] Yeah,
I'm gonna go get it.
-[soldier 2] Huh?
-[soldier 3] Yeah.
-Do you have it?
-[soldier 2] No.
[soldier 3] Bring it.
Do we got one?
[soldier 2] No.
-Uh, we don't have any.
-He doesn't have a weapon.
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 3] What can I do?
-He was gonna take a shot.
[soldier sighs]
He didn't have
a gun on him, did he?
Goddamn it.
No, he didn't.
[soldier 1] All right, buddy.
How are you doing today?
-You look like you just got...
-[soldier 2] Just hang in there.
...fucked. Oh, hand.
-[soldier 2] In the hand, dude.
-Right in the fucking hand.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[soldier 1] Ooh, through
and through.
[soldier 2]
You got an exit wound?
[soldier 1] Yep, he lived
for a little while.
Probably did, went in
and fucking hit his fucking...
where the liver would be.
[soldier 2] Yeah.
[soldier 3]
[soldier 2] Yeah.
-[soldier 2] Mm-hm.
-[soldier 1] What are they...
-What are they talking about?
-[soldier 3] They might get rid
-of the body and hide it.
-[soldier 2] Who is?
[soldier 3] ANA. This is no good
for people to see.
-[soldier 1] All right, again.
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
[man speaking Pashto]
["American Woman"
by The Guess Who playing]
[man speaking on laptop]
Those are skin-tight.
How do you get
into those tanks, baby?
[woman on laptop] You could
start by buying me a drink.
[laughs]
[thudding]
[engine rumbling]
[wind howling]
[soldier 1] I mean,
can I borrow that for post?
-[soldier 2] Nope. No.
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
-No, you're not gonna borrow it.
-[solder 2] Come on.
I'm gonna borrow it for post,
'cause I bought it.
[soldier 2] When you're done.
Get fucking--
And then, I'm not gonna
fucking have it again,
'cause you're gonna give it
to somebody else.
[soldier 2] I'll ve it
back to you.
Bitch.
Turn your fucking light on,
faggot.
I just wanna fuck!
[grunting]
[rapid gunshots]
[whooping]
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Shoot three out.
Looks long, looks right.
[beeps]
You need to go for your shot.
Hey, I'm looking around
buildings three,
-buildings two--
-[gunshots]
[soldier 1] Shit!
-[soldier 2] Was that you?
-[soldier 1] Yeah.
[soldier 2] You scared
the shit out of me.
[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier 1] What?
-[soldier 3] Oh, shit! Go!
[rapid gunshots]
If I know better,
hey, they're even closer, buddy.
[soldier 2] Don't be an ass.
Just stand back for...
Hey, where's Hardy at?
[soldier 3] He went that way.
Hardy!
Wait one, break, break, Hardy.
Brown.
Yeah. They have RPG waiting
for the fucking shots, man.
[soldier 2] Oh, shit!
-[soldier 1] Get in.
-[soldier 2] I'm shot! Doc!
[soldier 1] Call a medic!
Shot to the head.
Left side of head,
toward rear of the head.
How copy?
Hey, somebody... Hey, somebody
carry him out with me.
[soldier 1] Hey,
keep those fires coming.
I got two people
posting weapons on the roof.
Hey, grab this, grab this!
[soldier 2] Hey, watch
his fucking head.
Buddy, go crawl back over here.
[soldier 2] Get the fuck down.
[medic] You're okay, man.
[soldier 1]
Doc's right here, baby.
[soldier 3]
Doc's right here, man.
We're helping you out.
We got you.
[medic] Victim's gunshot
to the ad
goes through and through.
His body's locking up, right?
Eight-eight, two-four.
[soldier 1] We got someone
that will help secure it.
No problem.
Hey, everybody calm down.
-Seven, one-one.
-[soldier 2] Get back on there.
And we're gonna have
to push back.
About 150 meters.
[soldier 1] They're gonna go
give us a grid. In a minute.
As soon as
they give us that grid,
you have to get his ass
out of here, all right?
[soldier 3] Good to go.
I need rounds
to keep coming downrange.
I don't want people
fucking fixing on us.
We need rounds downrange.
Hey, pick out targets, stay low.
He got hit, 'cause he was
on the fucking roof,
and he was standing
straight the fuck up.
I told him once, stay low.
[soldier 1 sniffles]
[loud gunshots]
[soldier 2] Oh, fuck.
[soldier 1] There you go!
Let them motherfuckers have it!
[soldier 2] Let's go, let's go!
I searched, searched.
-[soldier 1] Okay, go!
-[soldier 2] Quick. Move, move.
[soldier 1] Start it up!
[soldier 2] Where are we going?
[soldier 1] Hey, I need somebody
help me get him--
-[rapid gunshots]
-[Leevy groans]
[soldier 2] Oh, hey, hey.
His bdage fell off.
-[soldier 3] Huh?
-[soldier 2] It fell off.
All right, hold on. Oh, shit!
-All right.
-[rapid gunshots]
[Leevy groaning]
[soldier 2] Hey, bud.
Lemme sit him down right here.
-Come on, Leevy. I got you.
-[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] All right,
we got everybody?
-[soldier 3] I got you, brother.
-[soldier 2] Set him down.
[soldier 3] Look out below.
-[soldier 4] Get Roy down!
-[soldier 3] You take mine.
[Miles] He's getting down
right now!
[soldier 2] He's down.
[soldier 3] Come on, Leevy.
Hang on. Hang on, brother.
-[soldier 2] He's down!
-[soldier 3] Hang on, Leevy.
[soldier 2] Hey, we got
to get out of here, bro.
[soldier 3] I know.
This shit came off.
Almost home, buddy.
Almost home, brother.
[sniffles]
Come on, man. Hang in there.
[medic] Okay, buddy.
[soldier 1] Go for 2-1.
[medic] Put a, put a big one on.
-[mumbling]
-[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier 2] Now we're providing
suppressive fire
so we can get those weapons
off the roof, how copy?
[medic] The border's there.
It's around the corner.
[soldier on radio] Charge.
Copy, out.
[soldier 2] Okay.
Up here, too.
[medic] We got support.
I don't see the entrance
and the exit wound.
[soldier 3] If there's no
exit wound,
-it didn't go through.
-[medic] It's still under there.
Hang in there, brother.
[soldier 1] Fuckheads.
[soldier 2] Hey, Manassis, 2-1.
[soldier on radio]
They scanned it, brother.
[soldier 2] Hey,
just for that bird's SA,
so they know
what they're dealing with
on that wound, brk.
In the head,
came through the Kevlar.
It punctured through the head.
I do not have an exit wound
on the other end of the Kevlar.
It appears that it's still
in there. How copy?
[soldier on radio]
Roger. Copy that.
[medic] Hold the top
of his head, Bobby.
Hold the top of his head.
[soldier 2] Leevy,
keep breathing, buddy.
-Keep breathing.
-[medic] Don't push down.
[soldier 2 sniffles]
[soldier 3] Leevy, come on.
[soldier 1]
What are they saying?
[man] They're saying
we cannot see any--
[soldier 3]
Hang in there, Leevy.
[soldier 3] Oh, my god, Lee!
Hang in there!
[soldier 2] Hey, try and get the
casualty out, get him moving.
Come, help some more.
You want someone
on the shoulders?
[soldier 1] Hey,
have we got everybody?
-[Miles] Yeah, we're good.
-[soldier 1] Right, let's go.
-Push around the corner.
-[soldier 2] Where's my rifle?
[soldier 3] Hurry. Get the SAW.
[Miles] Whichay are we going?
This way, this way.
[soldier 1] Hey, let's go.
Push, push, push.
Push, push, push.
[helicopter engine whirring]
[rapid gunshots]
[gunshots continue]
[soldier 1] Come on, Vince!
[rapid gunshots]
[soldier 1] Hey, the X
is on the enemy position.
The enemy's on the back
of the property!
[gunshots]
[indistinct chatter]
[soldier 1]
[Miles] What the fuck?
[gunshots]
[Miles sighs]
-[helicopter engine whirring]
-[soldier speaking indistinctly]
[Miles]
-[helicopter whirring]
-[indistinct chatter]
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] What's that?
Hey, we got two guys
on the hill!
Right there!
All right, I'm shooting them!
-[soldier 2] Shoot that bitch.
-[gunshot]
[soldier 3] Let's not agree
to fucking shoot.
[rifle cocks]
-[soldier 1] Do you see 'em?
-[Miles] Yeah!
[gunshot]
[soldier 1] Hey, you see him?
[rapid gunshots]
[Miles] Shit, we're good!
-[rapid gunshots]
-[soldier grunts]
[soldier 1] We're moving!
Start moving!
[indistinct chatter]
[helicopter whirring
in distance]
-[helicopter buzzing]
-[soldier 1] Hey, get down!
[soldier 2] Go! Go, go!
They've landed.
[Miles] Let's go.
-[soldier 1] We can go.
-[soldier 2] Go.
-[Miles] Shit.
-[soldier groaning]
[soldier 3]
We're not gonna see him easy!
Those are friendlies!
[soldier 2] Target's our guy.
[soldier 3] I got one guy
on the road, though.
Fuck!
[helicopter engine whirring]
Turquoise, 4-7. Turquoise 4-7.
[soldier coughs]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[man speaking Pashto]
[Miles sighs]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[soldier coughing]
[soldier chuckles]
[soldier 1]
This is a new Christmas CD
coming to you soon, baby.
It's "Jingle Bells." Ready?
Jingleells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six
And eight-hour days, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
Walking in Afghan
With my M4 in my hand
Oh, why is the Taliban
Trying to go and plan
We got pressure plate IDs
Command, poor dead eye, too
We get IDF all day
Recall his rifle at night
Oh, jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to patrol
For six-and-eight-hour days
We're running low on food
These FSR suck ass
[chuckles]
All right, I got...
-That's all I have for now.
-[soldier laughs]
-[soldier 1] Man that shit...
-[soldier 2] Yeah.
...is on top of my head.
[soldier 2] Kanye's new prodigy.
Mr. Roland.
[soldier 2 laughs]
[indistinct chatter]
[chatter continues]
-[Miles] Just go.
-Hi.
This is, uh, Lance Corporal
Jacob Marshall.
I just wanna say,
uh, Merry Christmas
to my wife and family.
I love you guys, you know.
-That's all.
-[Miles] All right.
-[soldier 1] All right, where--
-[Miles] All right, aim it
at his face.
We good?
-[soldier 1] Good.
-[soldier 2] Say what?
Hey, Meredith. Hey...
Hey, Mom. Hey, Dad.
Uh, everybody, I'm doing good.
-In Kajaki, Afghanistan.
-[soldiers chuckle]
My boys are taking care of me.
Uh, I just wanted you all
to know I love you.
And, uh, I can't wait
to come home.
Sergeant Gonzales from Kajaki.
Feliz Navidad.
[in Spanish]
[in English]
And see you all soon.
Paul Sean Kennon.
Happy Holidays.
Love you, uh, Natasha, Ryan.
Uh, Mom, Dad, Bryan.
Mama and Papa, I just wanna say
I'll see you guys soon.
I love you.
Uh. I love you, Natasha,
and I'll see you soon.
Hey, uh...
You know what, just...
never mind.
-[Miles] Don't worry about it.
-Yeah.
Is this, uh, I'm sorry--
[low rumbling]