Restrepo

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All right, this is what's going on.

Me, O'Bizzle-- O'Bizzle.

- I got it, l got it, man I'm the narrator.

- O'Bizzle fo' shizzle.

Me, Peebs, and Kim.

Kim, you got something to say?

- Yeah, you got something to say.

- Kim?

You all know tonight

is going to going to be crazy.

Stupid crazy.

What's your sole mission, O'Byrne?

Man, to keep you out of hand.

You can't-- you can't tame the beast.

Peebs, tell them. How do we roll?

Got 'em. Got 'em.

Tune in next time

where we're going to be still loing life

and getting ready to go to war.

- What?

- All right, baby.

- War, Afghanistan, what?

- Say it again, baby, say it again.

- I didn't even sign my passport.

- Baby.

- I didn't even sign my passport.

- We're going to war. We're going to war.

We're going to war. We're going to war.

Roger.

Oh, we're f***ing hit.

- This is an lED, over.

- lED.

- Keep going, keep going! Keep--

- What was that?

- Shots.

- Eight o'clock.

- Get on that gun!

- What are we doing?

Aim for that draw! Right now!

That way.

We gotta get out. We gotta get out of here.

We're getting out!

F***ing motherf***er.

Shot, eight o'clock. 300 meters.

Shot, eight o'clock. 102 meters.

You know what?

When they told me

I was going to the Korengal Valley,

l really didn't, uh, I didn't read

anything up on it. l didn't want to.

I wanted to go in there with an open mind.

The Colonel told me initially

they take fire every single day.

I was like, God, how the hell do you take

fire every single day from somebody?

You got to go out there and go kill

the damn enemy.

Quit being, you know, scared.

Go out there and get 'em.

And the Colonel and I

came up with, you know,

what we thought was going to be

our campaign plan and that, uh,

after two months of being there I would fix

it and that we wouldn't get shot at anymore.

The very first day, l remember coming in,

and one of the pilots and stuff,

and they said, hey,

if you look over there to your left,

uh, that's Pakistan.

You know, and we're like, you know,

we all, okay, that's Pakistan.

And then they're all mountains,

you know, high elevation.

And as you go in elevation,

it starts to get a little bit colder.

And then we go up into the Korengal Valley.

I remember looking out the little bubble

windows on the side, kind of just like this,

because I was right next to the window.

And I could see when the Chinook

had made a hard right turn into the valley.

I was like, holy sh*t.

We're not ready for this.

We flew around for about half- hour,

45 minutes above the KOP,

and you're just looking down there,

and you're like,

this is in the middle of nowhere right now.

You're away from everything.

Honestly, when I first got to the Korengal,

I was like, this is a sh*t hole.

My mindset was like, oh snap,

I'm going to die here.

l remember getting off the bird

and walking up the hill to the hooch.

Hey, Jones, you guys standing up

right there, you're wrong.

Come on, guys, better get moving.

And just sucking...

and thinking what are we doing?

It started getting dark,

and monkeys were howling,

And l thought they were Taliban.

And I thought, holy sh*t they're close.

Everybody's like,

oh, you're going to the Korengal?

And they feel sorry for you

and everything like that.

I'm like, dude,

it can't be that bad, you know?

I show up there

and you're burning your own feces.

You know, you're living in a tent.

I literally lived in a bunker, you know,

about that high, I couldn't even stand up in.

See bullet holes all rattled into the Hescos

and when you look up, it's like,

I don't even know why I have Hescos here

because they're not going to stop the bullets

that are coming down from the mountains.

So I felt like l was--

I was like fish in a barrel.

They're gathering intel right now,

basically, on how to deal with us,

because they haven't--

there's no really research or intel

on how to treat us right now,

because they haven't had to deal with people

like us since World War ll and Vietnam,

you know, dealing with guys that are

coming back from 15-month deployments

with as much fighting,

you know, as we went through.

Hey, go on that ridgeline, f***ing now!

Hey, roger, I'm up here by OP four.

We're scanning and if we have to,

we'll move into contact.

I got myself, Riegel, and Thomas over here.

Roger, over.

Hey, I'm about to find this bastard,

and I'm going to kill him, over.

Okay, roger.

So it's coming from 1705 and 00.

We should be firing on those here

right now, break.

Hang it!

Fire! Firing!

The Korengal Outpost is at the 6-3 gridline,

and then the 6-2 gridline--

the insurgency has, like, drawn

this imaginary line in the sand there,

and every time the guys

come out of Firebase Phoenix

and they cross the 6-2 gridline,

I mean, like, no sh*t, every time they cross

the 6-2 gridline, they get in contact.

So I want to extend the security bubble,

because wherever I can place troops

and wherever I can provide security

is where l'm going to be able to

have an influence on the populace.

The hard part is, is that they're so deeply

rooted down here because of family ties

and because of religious ideals, that getting

these people to push out the insurgency

and basically push out their family members

is going to be the hard part.

Right now the road ends

at the Korengal Outpost,

and where the road ends

is where the Taliban begins.

We've been getting reports that they've been

watching us throughout the day,

so the contact right now

I'd say is likely or imminent.

- Good to see you.

- Move southeast. It's this way.

Do you want chai?

We don't have time to sit down

and have chai tonight.

I just wanted to come in and talk to you

briefly about the project.

How many people are you actually

going to use to build the project?

What's up?

You see that last house, to the right of it?

Brownish f***ing bush

about f***ing 15, 20 meters to the right?

Yeah?

Someone turned around that corner,

saw us and went right back around, dude.

We're going to be moving in darkness.

You're going to be lead, so...

We could move now if you need to.

Okay, spread out.

I'm pushing up here.

Whoa, a tracer came right by here!

Hey!

There's fire coming. They're shooting.

Over there!

Where? Over where?

Tell me, sir, tell me.

Kim!

The first friend I lost was Vimoto,

and that was right at the beginning

of the deployment. That hit hard.

And then a month after that, I lost Restrepo.

The day that Restrepo got killed,

it came across the net

that we had troops in contact.

Then they called back in

and said that we have a casualty.

I need you to give me fire, Cortez.

We didn't know who it was, because nobody

was saying anything over the radio.

When you hear someone's hit,

your first reaction

is just like, f***, like, no.

And then you start going through your head

all the people that you know out there

and wanting to eliminate your friends

and the people that were closest to you--

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