Korengal
1
Where I grew up, like,
in Oregon,
I was always up in Mount Hood,
snowboarding and skiing.
And when I was in Afghanistan,
whenever I looked
out at the mountains,
I didn't think, like,
"Afghanistan."
Oh, there's Taliban
roaming up there,
like, going into
their little caves,
"and they're about
to shoot at me."
Whenever I looked up there,
for the most part,
tried to think of back home,
something peaceful, you know,
something...
something nice.
For the last
Four and a half years,
the Korengal has been known as
Afghanistan's valley of death.
We're taking heavy fire from-
The valley was just too remote,
too difficult to resupply,
and too dangerous
like the isolated outpost
called Restrepo.
Fire in the hole!
Fire in the hole!
And from the bottom
of a mountain,
we watched Restrepo burn.
Is there anything
that you miss about Restrepo,
about the Korengal Valley?
Oh, yeah, I...
I'd rather be there than here.
I'd... I'd go back right now,
if I could.
I'd want to... I'd go back
the Korengal right now.
Get in the f***ing window.
Korengal Valley...
I was in the Korengal.
But...
When you get told that
hey, you're not in the Korengal
to go and hunt the bad guys.
You're in the Korengal
so the bad guys come to you,
and you kill them.
It was just a valley.
It's a valley that is...
if you look from high above,
You look to your north,
your south, east and west,
it's just mountains,
it's rocks, you know,
and it was wooded.
Everybody thinks,
"you're over there?
Then you're in the desert."
No.
If you went a little north
of us, it looked just like...
like Colorado Springs,
like, Denver.
It was gorgeous.
But the minute I got there,
the minute I got off
the helicopter I got shot at.
I saw it from a distance,
it was beautiful.
Bullets came in,
"F*** this place.
I want to go...
I want to go home."
That day, when we took over,
our Command Sergeant
Major Vimoto, he was at the Kop.
And he asked,
"Hey, where's my son at?"
He said, "You don't have to...
just show me where he's at,"
and you know, and I go up
on this ledge and stuff,
and I point down.
"You tell him I said hello.
I came out here."
I know he's out there on patrols
and doing his thing,
"and stuff like that, but you
tell him your dad said hello."
As soon as it
came across the net
and said we had a K.I.A.
I was like, "it's Vimoto."
I just lost
the Sergeant Major's son,
the brigade Sergeant Major's son
in my company,
the very first day
that I go out there
and the very first thing
I told them to go do,
where I'm the only one
in charge,
and I get his son killed,
I was, like... at a loss.
I mean, what do I do from here?
You lose somebody
that quickly in a deployment,
it kind of hits home,
like, whoa.
When's my turn then?
If he got killed this quick,
how many people are we going to
lose by the end of this?
As bad as it may be,
we have to continue, you know?
We can't sit there, you know,
and just cry.
And the thing...
we'll do that, you know.
If you're gonna cry, you do it.
You know what I'm saying?
If you're going to go
in a corner
and do what you have to do,
you go do it, you know?
But when I need you back
to be part of the team...
because the bad guys
are still there.
Tomorrow we going to go
on a different patrol,
try to take another shot at you.
The Korengal was a major highway
for all sorts of Taliban
and enemy activity.
It's been that way for years.
It was in a deep part
of the mountains
where they were using
that area to traffic weapons
a lot, you know,
weapons and supplies.
And it was just finding
you know, I think was, you know,
what we were supposed to do.
But honestly, like,
I don't know,
we just knew
that they were there
and that's where we're going,
and, you know,
it was a shithole and, you know,
we were there to deal with it.
Think about putting
into context...
somebody moves in and decides
to take your house over.
and that's exactly
what they did.
Hey, what you got?
Do you got it pided?
No, just from the southwest.
"TIC, " it, uh, stands
for "Troops in Contact."
And what it is is basically
anytime that we are engaged,
being the U.S. Forces,
are engaged by anybody
or we engage somebody else.
We were getting, you know,
anywhere from one
to ten to fourteen
sometimes a day.
Moreno, get the f***
outta there!
An ungodly amount
of TICs, I think 220...
225 TICs that Restrepo
was involved in
in some way, shape, or form.
We just f***ing got
f***ing rocked.
I mean, that's basically
365 days
that they could have shot
at them.
They shot at them
nine months straight.
We're getting fire from,
from one of these draws.
They think they're getting fire
from down there.
We're in the middle
of this valley
in sandbag huts that we built,
no running water.
No life.
Chinooks would come in,
helicopters would come in,
deliver our supplies
of food, water.
You know, think about
being alone for days on end,
you know, in an isolated area.
Even though you're
with people out there...
We had nothing.
That was as ghetto as it comes.
The hardest thing
was you just never knew
if you were going to start
getting shot at.
It's like,
I'd be laying there on my cot,
and all of a sudden you'd just
and RPGs going by, blowing up,
right on the Hescos,
on the other side of where
you're sleeping, you know?
You have to accept that fact,
that you could die
at any second.
This is the place to be.
There's a little secret
about second platoon...
everyone can play
the guitar almost.
You know what
I'm learning, dude?
Pass that up, man.
Came in here with no...
no cover, nothing.
And then we built this place up
into a resort,
and, uh, you know.
Oh, yeah. This is a real resort.
Yeah, resort.
This is Resort Restrepo.
I mean, in summertime,
we put a pool up here.
But in the winter,
we'll make it a ski lodge.
Base people right out of here.
Sergeant Simon was joking
he was going to get some skis
and, uh, ski down, you know,
get the whole...
uh, the Army feeling
into it, you know?
We'll have some bullet holes
in some walls and stuff.
Maybe, you know, a few rounds
come in once in a while.
I'm telling you,
you look out the door,
this place could be sports
heaven if they just...
if they just
stop shooting at us, you know.
This is nine-November,
roger, copy. Fire...
He's in the draw.
Shot two two zero six bullets.
The first thing
you hear when you get ambushed
or you get in a firefight,
or whatever it is,
the first thing you hear is just
a loud crack.
The bullets passing
by your head, the snaps.
You hear that snap
and your first...
exactly how were trained,
the snap is...
the first instinct is to,
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