The Darkest Hour Page #5

I have the buIIet in my pocket.

- 40 seconds.

- Pancake!

Way to go!

- WeIcome. We have sodas.

- Sounds good.

Great job.

That was f***ing awesome.

- Four of them with a f***ing grenade.

- lt was nice.

F***, that was great.

This is something we'II never forget.

That was some of the best

f***ing soldiering l've ever seen.

You did a damn good job.

They didn't have any lD

or ceIl phones on them.

I had to puII one of them

by the head from under a Iog.

- He was stuck underneath it.

- Yuck. AII the dead Afghans.

Mini, your eyes were huge.

You just stood there staring at them.

The worst thing was with 3.

''They are in the creek.''

I didn't beIieve them, but emptied

a magazine down the creek.

''They're stiII there!''

''No, there's nobody there.''

Hand grenade! l came up, there were

four of them lying there, rattIing.

Then 5 wanted to be in on it, so

he emptied a magazine under the Iog.

- Then SignaIer and I found one more.

- Yeah, he said so.

- Not much fun forthose TaIibobs.

- They were in a bad spot.

OIby, you say four on the first side?

PIus two more on the other side.

- No, only one.

- There were two.

Wasn't there one farther along?

When we turned the corner -

- l'm sure we fired at two of them.

- l searched the whoIe lot.

You went back? Okay. Well, no one

crawIed away after we were there.

Good afternoon.

Everyone's back from the Green Zone.

It was a hectic morning.

I think we aII agree on that.

The wounded are doing alright.

I have a fresh update on them.

- Both were operated on.

- Louder!

One of them in the shouIder,

the other in the Ieg.

Grejs says he's sorry

he won't be coming back.

He's going back to Denmark for

rehabilitation. That's aII we know.

You did a good job

and showed guts, 2nd pIatoon.

Today was a cIose shave.

Anything else?

Have a nice day.

- War booty!

- Loots of war!

Let's start the debriefing.

I want to get through it quickIy,

and get to the point.

Today we can estabIish

that we didn't fire at each other.

There were many instances,

where we were in doubt -

- and mistakes have happened.

I had my doubts that

the enemy was onIy 3 m away.

l hear you hoIIering

that he's cIose by, and I say ''No!''

In the end l was so irritated that l

emptied a magazine down the stream.

I thought that wouId be enough,

but you said no -

- and that's when

we threw a grenade.

Afterwards Signaler and l -

- found four men groaning heaviIy

in the ditch, feeIing rather bad.

We Iiquidated them

in the most humane way possibIe.

under a littIe bridge -

- and we cIeaned the area

and found the shooter lan mentioned.

- He was hit and moaning.

- He was trying to crawI.

- We shot him 30-40 times.

- We finished them off.

- Thanks!

- That was it.

lt was f***ing awesome.

Not whiIe it was happening -

- but when we got back. Now we've

been at war. Now we've tried it.

l neverfelt that way on patrol

before. NormaIIy it's just boring.

But this time l thought -

- there was a reaI risk

of being boxed in.

I neverthought that before.

We outnumber them -

- and have cooI weapons, so they

can't touch us. But here they couId.

But I'd still Iike to try it again.

One more time.

I wouldn't.

Think about it! When yourtour is over,

you'II feel so much better about it.

- Yes.

- lt's true.

Making a difference

is a cooI feeling.

Having been up sh*t creek

wiII feeI great once you're back home.

Imagine if ourtour was just a load

of crap with nothing going on -

- and onIy boring patrols.

- lt would be a Iame way to go home.

- Right.

We're gonna see Frederiks' Ieg.

He has to show us.

- What's up?

- Turn around.

Way to go, man!

- Good to see you, Grejs.

- You, too.

- So, are you hooked up with Brits?

- They are aII bloody Afghans.

- Even some TaIiban.

- Really?

ActuaIIy, one came in with eyes

covered and his hands tied yesterday.

- lf you go back inside, we'II come in.

See you inside.

- Hi.

- Good to see you.

- AweII-placed shot afterwards.

- Brilliant.

The buIIet entered here

and was sticking out of my ass.

- They had to dig it out.

- CooI.

I totally forgot about the pain

because the chopperfIew Iike this.

I don't know if you heard,

but OIby got four with a grenade.

- They were moaning.

- l don't know how many it kiIIed.

But three of them

were Iying in a pile.

You couId only see an ear and the left

side of the head of one of them.

The rest was hanging off him.

Two of them were underneath him.

I thought, ''What the f***?''

They were on top of each other.

Another was under a Iog,

and another was farther away.

- He was crawIing on the ground.

- No, he wasn't.

So we hit the jackpot in that ditch.

Okay, guys.

Bye.

I've got two things for you.

You definiteIy get the Horse.

- Thanks a lot.

- You deserve it.

You fought with us and with SpeciaI

Forces. Super ... Damn fine job.

Listen up. I was questioned

by the MPs this evening.

ApparentIy someone called home

and told their parents -

- that we Iiquidated

wounded peopIe -

- and piIed up the dead, to take

pictures of ourseIves as heroes.

And that I personaIIy returned

and killed some wounded Talibans.

People have also said that we laughed

about this during our debriefing.

The parents ... or this mother has

contacted OperationaI Command -

- and asked if that is how

we deaI with things here.

What bothers me the most

right now ...

... is the question of IoyaIty.

I have to know -

- if anyone here beIieves

that this is what happened.

Does anyone honestly believe that?

Yes ...?

If l had Iistened to our debriefing

and the sequence of events -

- l would have thought

it was extremely ... deIicate.

I couId understand if outsiders, who

weren't there got that impression.

We were stiII on a high afterwards.

You have to take that

into consideration.

It was an extreme experience,

so we used extreme words.

If the press makes a case of this,

and peopIe think we're psychos -

- well, let them think so.

They weren't there, they didn't see it.

They weren't there,

but we know what happened.

Let them taIk.

They weren't there.

If they make a case out of this,

we'II be suspended -

- and then we'II be blowing bubbIes,

and that's it untiI we go home.

And we'II go down in miIitary history,

apart from those who knew us -

- as the guys who f***ed up.

Anyone who's named in this case -

- including myself,

DanieI and Signaler -

- can Iook forward to a Iong session

with the whoIe miIitary circus.

l can't say:

''You weren't there, man'' to that.

I beIieve that Signaler and Daniel had

the balls to do the right thing -

- at the right time.

To proceed the way they did

with two wounded, one near miss -

- and three men with hoIes

in their uniform and so on ...

To waIk up and shoot ... Had l seen

movement, I wouId have fired, too.

And it onIy took Daniel or SignaIer

to point under the Iog and say:

''One here, one there.''

That was enough for me

to fIip to automatic and shoot.

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