Citizen Soldier Page #3

Brown:

Get down, get down, get down!

It's coming from

the other side of the river!

Lyon, you good?

Gore, you good?

Whoa! Get over here.

Get over here.

Harrill:

Hey! Hey!

Contact! Contact!

Over here!

What went through my mind

was, Holy sh*t,

that's a machine gun.

And I just threw my stuff down,

you know, hit the ground,

and started returning fire.

Colson:
We started taking fire

from three different points

on the high ground.

The mountains...

three different angles.

In that vill!

In that vill!

Hey, right here!

Right here! Right here!

Contact over here!

Brown:
Right there on top

of that big spur!

Colson:

That draw right there.

That's the first time

I heard the sound...

( Imitates bullet whistling )

Bullets are impacting

this giant boulder.

And it becomes

immediately clear

that I'm not being guarded

by the rock,

I'm guarding the rock.

Fragments chipping away

in front of our faces.

( Grunts )

Colson:
Damn it,

where is that coming from?

Harrill:
Hey, I'm in a bad spot!

I've got to move.

It was very clear

at that point

that we were

kind of sitting ducks.

And we needed to move.

LT Brown spotted

a kind of a courtyard

that was down the mountain.

The problem was

just a straight run

and a prayer down a mountain

that offered no protection.

Brown:
Hey, listen,

we gotta bound back, all right?

Harrill:
LT just looks at us

and he goes,

"When I say go, go."

Brown:

Hey, pick out a spot!

Know where you're going

before you get up!

As soon as we start shooting,

go, all right?

Colson:

Hey, cover us, cover us.

Brown:

I've got you covered! Go!

Colson:

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Brown:
Go, go, move it!

Let's go!

Let's go, Bravo!

Let's go!

- ( Gunfire continues )

- Move, move, move!

Harrill:

Hey, hurry up! Hurry up!

Brown:
Hey, let me know

when you guys are set!

We're gonna come

in after y'all!

Harrill:

Bravo set, Bravo set.

Colson:

Set!

Brown:
I had

the other guys move first

and I was the last one

to go.

I already had a rock

picked out before I got up.

Hey, I'm moving back!

I'm moving back!

Harrill:

Get behind that rock.

Brown:
The rounds

were just flying by us

left and right.

A round just went

right by my face.

( Bullet zinging )

Brown:

Whoo!

Brown:

All right, set!

2-7, 2-7, this is 3-6.

Harrill:

Come and boogie!

Brown:
We're about halfway

back to you, all right?

Brown:
We finally

made it to cover.

Everybody was okay.

And while the guys

were laying down fire,

I was calling back

to the COB

trying to work in air support.

Five seconds.

Ooh, that was quick.

Brown:

Hey, bomb's inbound.

( Exploding )

Soldier:

Yeah!

Hell! Viper 1-6, Viper 1-6,

that's a good impact.

Break, break.

Hector two fours, two eight.

Harrill:
It was definitely

life or death.

I mean,

there was no way

we were getting out

of that situation

any other way

outside of the air support.

LT Brown,

leadership ability

was really telling

at that point.

Here he is,

a young second lieutenant.

He had no more war experience

than most of us.

But yet, when he spoke,

there was no question

we all knew

that he had made the decision

and that's what

we were going to do.

Brown:
That definitely

changed everybody

right then and there

within a matter

of seconds.

Colson:

Later on in the deployment,

we would patrol the area.

We would patrol that road.

And I would look back

on that high ground...

that OP

that we had occupied.

And I thought to myself,

How the f***

did none of us

get waxed that day?

You know what I mean?

How did none of us die?

It was either

sheer coincidence,

luck,

divine providence,

however you want

to look at it.

But somebody should have

died that day.

Somebody should have died.

And if the tables

were turned,

if it was us that occupied

those high-ground positions,

we would have waxed

every single one of them.

After that, all hell

just broke loose.

( Helicopter blades whirring )

Brown:

The Mayal Valley was okay

until you got

to a certain point.

And as soon as

you hit Kandahar, Parmawan,

you knew sh*t

was going to hit the fan.

We were headed

to that area to get 'em

to come out and fight.

Up to that point,

we were having a hard time

identifying where these guys

were shooting from.

- ( Gunfire )

- ( Soldier shouts )

( Shouting continues )

Brown:
At first,

it was only small arms fire.

And then an RPG

hits the turret

with my platoon

sergeant in it.

- ( Gun fires )

- Byrne:
Oh, sh*t.

That was right

over my head!

Hey, I just received fire

from our 3:
00.

Right over my head.

- ( Gunfire continues )

- Come on!

- ( Crashing )

- ( Soldier shouts )

Sergeant Byrne's...

turret in his vehicle

was blown to shreds.

They call it over the radio,

you know...

"We think his arm's broke.

The turret's off the truck."

Move it, let's go!

Harrill:
So we get called

out to plus them up

and provide extra security.

By the time that we got out

to their position,

bombs had already

been dropped

to defuse the situation.

And at that time,

Lieutenant Brown

had got the call

from command

to do a BDA...

a Battle Damage Assessment.

Brown:

2-1 Bravo, 3-6.

Go for 2-1, Bravo.

Brown:

Hey, 2-1 Bravo,

can you get with

your 2-6 element?

I need you guys to push up

and conduct a BDA

where that bomb just hit.

Harrill:
Hey, roger,

that's a good copy.

2-1 Bravo out.

Colson:

3-6, 2-1 Alpha, over.

Brown:

This is 3-6. Go ahead.

Colson:

Roger. Be advised,

we're Oscar Mike, over.

Brown:
Roger that.

I need you guys

to hurry

as fast as possible.

Colson:

Roger.

Colson:

We found the best route

we could up the mountain.

It was rugged terrain.

Soldier:

They better hurry up

before we get

our truck blown up.

Floyd:
There's always

a sense of urgency.

Just think about those trucks

being stopped.

Immediately,

they're soft targets.

Brown:
It was just

a matter of time, I felt,

before an RPG was just

going to rip through the side

of the vehicle.

Soldier:

That corn is way too close

for my comfort, brother.

There's something moving

in that cornfield, man.

Soldier #2:
All right,

keep your eyes peeled.

Keep your eyes peeled.

( Bullet zinging,

glass breaking )

Solder:

What was that?

Soldier over radio:

100 meters.

That was an RPG!

Soldier:
Vehicle just

got hit by an RPG!

Harrill:

F***.F***.

( Gunfire )

We need those guys

down here now!

Brown:
2-1 Bravo,

2-1 Bravo. This is 3-6.

Harrill:

3-6 go for 2-1 Bravo.

Brown:

Be advised,

we're under

heavy contact down here.

I need you guys

to hurry up.

Harrill:
Roger.

We're moving out now.

Alex:
We gotta move.

We gotta move.

We can't stay here.

Soldier:

I can't!

- ( Gunfire )

- Soldier #2:
Move forward,

move forward!

- It's blocked.

- Move forward!

Soldier over radio:

200 meters.

Prince:
In that cornfield

right there!

Soldier:

Hey, who found us?

Driver, move! Move!

Harrill:

Sir, how are we getting down?

- ( Bullet zinging)

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