Restrepo Page #7

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because that was tone of the moments

that makes me appreciate

everything that I have.

Steiner?

Steiner, come on!

Not yet. Not yet.

Still working to try to bring about

the Korengal

to get the road moving here.

Are you really drawing

the Korengal Valley?

lt's the only thing

I know how to draw.

I just send it home in letters.

Just draw.

So do you have a songbook or something,

or an exercise book to practice with?

You just f*** around?

Yeah I'm just f***ing around.

You need one of those books,

with the charts on them.

Yeah, I need-- that would be nice.

Restrepo was teaching me that stuff,

but he-- he taught me like a few,

but l wrote just one, a C chord,

but, you know, I don't know.

I still have his--

I actually still have

one of his Flamenco books

or whatever it is.

How to play guitar flamenco,

you know.

He was amazing on guitar.

- It was just beautiful music.

- It was amazing.

He used to grow

his fingernails out real long,

and put like nail hardener.

So we always used

to get on him about that.

Yeah, but-- with his teeth--

"yeah, but can--

"can you play the guitar

like me, yo, son?

Shun?"

Twenty seven May,

movement to contact west of Restrepo.

Task disrupt, purpose prevent AAF

from building mass fires on Restrepo.

That concludes my report. Over.

- How long till he gets tired?

- Hump him, Walker.

Ow, my hip.

Is he squeezing you

with his f***ing mammoth legs?

- Heart punch, heart punch.

- There you go, film Walker.

Walker!

I think they just changed,

didn't they?

I just want to see.

- Walker.

- I'm bored.

Say something to your wife.

Dude, you know you want to.

Hey, babe, I miss you.

Can't wait to get home and--

Hurry up, hurry up!

Do you want to know

when you're going home or not?

All right, what's been told

to the wives is

we'll be back in Italy,

not out of country,

back in Italy between

August 4th and 7th.

So look at your f***ing watch.

Two months from today

and counting down.

That's bad news if you're

one of those dudes that's like,

"F***, I love it here and I wanted

to wait till September

and get an extra thousand dollars."

And if that's you, I don't care.

F*** you.

We're going home.

Today things were a little bit hectic.

We found out that one of our sister

companies, Chosen Company,

up north of Camp Blessing,

starting a new base lost nine soldiers

and had an additional twelve US wounded

and an thirteen additional ANA

that were wounded.

Hey, is this everybody?

We got the Mortars?

We got Second Platoon?

Okay, hey, listen up.

I'm going to talk to you guys

a little bit about

some of what happened

up with Chosen Company.

I want you guys to mourn,

and then l want you guys

to get over it and do your jobs.

Okay?

First-- Hey, Proctor,

why did you come in the army, man?

To fight for my country, sir.

- To fight for your country?

- Roger, sir.

Did you expect that

you might get injured or die?

Absolutely, sir.

Anybody join not knowing that

that might be an option?

We lose PFC Vimoto on June 5th, 2007.

What happens the very next day

after that, Sergeant Buno?

We go out on patrols,

we get attacked again.

Right.

July 22nd, we lose Restrepo, right?

What do we keep on doing after that?

Fighting.

We keep on fighting

and taking it to the enemy, right?

What do you guys think would have

happened if we had just stopped at Vimoto

and acted like

our predecessors before us

and we stood our ground there,

didn't go out there doing

our aggressive patrolling,

didn't go out there

and build OP Restrepo,

which I think we'll all venture to say,

like, pretty much changed the entire

dynamics of the entire valley?

You guys know what

would have happened?

The same sh*t that happened

today up at Chosen Company.

Now with Chosen Company,

they went into an area that they

knew was going to be contested.

They knew what they were getting into.

They've been talking about

going to Wanat since July of 2007.

We went there, they did it.

The f***ing only way to bounce back

from sh*t like this is to go out there

and make the individuals

that did this to us f***ing pay.

It's not to sit back here and hide.

It's not to go back down

to our f***ing rucks

and f***ing feel sorry for ourselves

and get snuggled up in our woobie.

We go out there, we find

the motherfuckers that did this

and we make them pay.

We make them feeI

how we feel right now.

For those of you guys that pray,

let's go ahead and take

a moment of silence in--

in remembrance the ten--

ten to nine soldiers that we lost today

and the families of them

and the families

of those that were hurt,

and then I'll let you guys go ahead

and get about your business.

Get down.

Oh, wow, you can't see sh*t now.

Hey, can I shoot Sergeant Mac?

I'm I'm going to f***ing get him.

- Can I shoot?

- Wait till he engages.

Wait till he engages,

then f***ing f***ing get him.

There he goes.

Low right, low right!

Low right!

- Hey, that motherf***er's done.

- Is he?

Hey, Olson, he's done.

Yeah!

A direct hit on that dude.

That motherf***er's done, man!

That motherf***er's done, dude!

F*** you, b*tches!

Body parts falling apart.

The L-Ras, dude,

it was him running

and then him blasting into pieces.

- Yeah?

- Yeah, dude.

There you go, motherf***er,

shoot at us again.

By the end, like I was--

I really didn't want to get overrun.

But l just wish they were closer

so l could have actually seen them

when I killed them.

626 perstat,

I have twenty Restrepo.

The only question I have is tonight,

are we going to be doing

an illum round for Doc Restrepo?

Today's twenty two July.

Over.

Yeah, we're planning

on doing the illum round.

One last thing, seventeen tonight

they're shooting for Doc Restrepo.

Seventeen tonight.

He's f***ing a little bit drunk.

I'm f***ing--

I'm a little bit drunk at this point.

And I see him--

I see him just eyeing everyone up,

just like this.

Who is that, Kim?

No, Restrepo.

Eyeing everyone up.

I come up to him

and I'm like, "What's wrong, bro?"

He's like, "Yo, bro,

I'm going to stab these fools, yo."

I'm like, I see it in his hand.

He's got the f***ing Gerber

out with the knife out,

f***ing closed up, just ready

to f***ing shank someone, dude.

I'm like-- and this is

after the night before

we ended up down in the f***ing

the steps of Rome f***ing train station,

and I was peeing, in my pants.

What we did to mark

the anniversary of our dead,

we shot off flares,

and where Restrepo died,

we shot off flares.

You know, and kind of raise one up.

Say a prayer,

say a few words in your head

and you move on.

Did my last patrol hopefully.

Hopefully I don't get called

back out for something.

Fly out of here in a few days.

It's kind of strange thinking you'll never

come back to OP Restrepo again.

Yeah.

It's a good feeling, though.

It's been a long f***ing

deployment right there.

Leaving Restrepo?

It's too good to be true, you know?

We're going to die here.

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