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Gotta lead them

a bit more, bro.

All right. Gotcha.

Viper 47,

this is Bravo 595.

Laser target designator 38.65.

Target, tanks in the open.

Nice shot, chief.

How's that taste, huh?

Okay, Bravo, good drop.

Shift your targets

500 meters south. Over.

Viper 47, new target.

Multiple troops in the open.

Drop 500 meters east of...

Chief? Chief, chief, chief.

How'd they find us?

They surrendering?

Chief,

are they surrendering?

Maybe.

Might be a trick.

Keep your finger

on the trigger, okay?

What do you wanna do

with them?

Alpha 595, this is Bravo 595.

We got a situation here.

Multiple enemy combatants attempting

to surrender at our position.

Roger, Bravo.

Give me a sitrep

when they're contained. Over.

Flash 21, this is 595 Charlie.

Request immediate...

We gotta get

that goddamn antenna!

Cover me!

Oh, sh*t!

They got a BM-21 and they're

going into the Gap!

Do you want to surrender?

Do you understand?

No, no. Just stay there.

Stay there, okay?

If you wish to surrender,

you stay right there.

Stop. All right.

All right. We gotta

search each one of these guys.

One by one.

You hear me?

Okay. Yeah.

Stay sharp.

Hal? Hal? Sh*t.

Oh, sh*t! Hal? Hal?

Hal? Oh, God.

Hal, come on, buddy. Hal. Hal!

Sh*t.

No, no, no. Hal.

Hal, come on, buddy. Come on.

No, no, no.

Hal! Come on! Oh, sh*t!

Hey, buddy. Come on.

Any station, Bravo is down!

Bravo is down!

How bad?

Bad! I need immediate medevac!

I'm on it, sir.

Here, fix this!

Sir, better late

than never, huh?

Let's go! Let's go!

- How about now?

- Yeah, yeah. Good, good.

Alpha, this is Charlie.

Do you read me?

Go ahead.

There's a BM-21 in the Gap,

loaded with rockets.

Oh, sh*t.

What the f*** is that?

Black,

give me Spencer's status.

It's a sucking chest wound.

He's on a real clock here.

All right, ready? Three,

two, one. Up. Let's go. Easy.

Hey. Movement.

Let's roll, boys. Let's roll.

Get down. Get down.

Get down. Get down.

Essex,

can you target the BM-21?

Negative.

Pulling back?

Back to the horses. Move!

Go!

Taliban's gonna

swamp your position

before a medevac can get in.

Put the radio

to Spencer's ear.

All right, this is

double or nothing, Hal.

We're gonna evac you.

Don't stop.

We're not. We're gonna airlift you

from the other side of the Gap

on the road to Mazar-i-Sharif.

It's the only way, Hal.

Remember,

the only way home is winning.

You hang in there, my friend.

Call the drop now!

464, adjust your target

20 meters west.

How copy? Over.

Good copy, 595.

But we are not authorized

so close to you.

Danger close, bro!

464, requesting

danger close ordnance!

Copy that.

Danger close. Twenty seconds.

- Get the f*** out of here!

- Let's go! Let's go! Run!

Run!

Essex?

- Jackson?

- Yeah.

- F***.

- Yeah.

Najeeb?

Najeeb.

Najeeb.

Come on, Najeeb. Come on.

Milo?

E!

Come on, Najeeb. Come on, bro.

Come on. Come on.

- Are you okay?

- Go help Jackson.

- Okay?

- Go help Jackson!

- Look at me!

- Help Jackson!

Jackson?

Get up!

- Get up!

- Come on.

We gotta go.

We gotta f***ing go.

E!

All right. All right?

Najeeb?

Come on. Let it out, man.

Come on.

Let it out.

We gotta go. We gotta go.

Cap, we lost

communication with Essex.

Keep trying them. Listen,

if we don't take out that BM-21,

this whole thing is over.

It fires 40 rockets

in salvos. Got it?

Forty, and then two minutes

to reload. Say it back to me.

Two minutes.

That's how long we're gonna have to storm

their positions, but we gotta get closer.

And hold there

until they stop to reload.

K2 base,

this is Alpha.

Lead elements

crossing phase line red.

Anticipate high casualties.

38, 39.

They're gonna have to

reload soon. We'll have two...

Oh, sh*t!

- Captain!

- Now's our window. Let's go!

Contact front!

Where's Diller?

Moving to our position.

Bird incoming in two minutes.

Copy. Rendezvous at evac sight

and pop smoke.

Get the horses out of here!

There's a chopper coming.

How's he doing?

Cap, I need that medevac

here right now!

All right, it's coming.

It's coming.

Chopper's inbound!

Jones, get that smoke out!

All right, here they come,

buddy. Here they come.

You hang in there, buddy.

Did we get them?

Yeah, man. We got them.

We got them good.

Hey. Hey, you hang in there.

Don't you quit on us.

Let's cover him up!

Cover up!

Okay, ready?

Three, two, one! Up!

Has anyone seen Dostum?

Eye in the sky says

full retreat over here.

The whole Gap is clear.

They're bugging out

all the way from Mazar.

Does air visual

have eyes on Atta's militia?

Yeah, they're approaching

from the east.

Dostum's going for Atta.

This whole thing falls apart

if the

Northern Alliance breaks.

We have to get to Dostum first!

Head to Mazar!

Let's go!

General, wait.

General Atta.

I will let Atta

have the city today.

Tomorrow, we'll see.

Well, you made

the right choice.

Right choice? There are

no right choices here.

This is Afghanistan.

Graveyard of many empires.

Today you are our friend,

tomorrow you are our enemy.

It won't be

any different for you.

Soon America will become

just another tribe here.

You will be cowards

if you leave.

And you will be our enemies

if you stay.

Just know

that you will

always be my brother.

When I get into that city,

I will raise your flag.

It's your city, General.

You raise your own flag.

Here.

It's been with me forever.

- Now it's yours.

- Thank you.

Yo.

Thank you

for looking out for me.

If you cry,

I'm telling everyone.

Shut the f*** up, bro.

Welcome back!

Changed

the extraction site, huh?

Yeah, I didn't think you'd

walked far enough.

Yeah. I was thinking,

you know what,

my knees feel way too good.

- Well, they look good.

- Thanks.

Did you see the medic?

Yeah.

Feels good, huh?

What, sitting down? Awesome.

No, I mean to finally

see one through.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We won the battle, you know.

Still gotta win the war.

Yeah. That ain't up to us.

Ain't our job anyway

though, right?

Yeah.

So, where are you going

to point us to next?

I'm pointing us home.

I'll follow you there.

I'll follow you anywhere.

Thank God for that.

Spencer?

He's stable.

On his way to Germany.

You got him here in time.

Kept your promise.

Yes, sir.

That's beautiful, Maddy.

Maddy! Come here!

Look, Christmas came early!

Daddy!

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