countless days and nights pondering a taliban strike on the base. >> we've taken three rounds up here. >> the most logical. the most effective ways to hit it. the possibilities weighed on romesha and his friend sergeant tom rasmussen. >> we talked about how we would do it if we were going to overrun an outpost like that. >> just before sunrise on october 3, 2009, the inevitable happened. >> the same plan we came up with is exactly how the enemy hit us. >> over the previous few months, combat outpost keating had seen small attacks before, but this one was different. >> when the attack fist happened, i was asleep. i had just gotten to bed a couple of hours before that, and i had woken up to some explosions going off and machine gun fire outside. so i ran our usual defense