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Surely this is more than just a job. >> the first torpedo got us and the ship vibrated and shook. >> reporter: the archives has collected more than a thousand voices in an oral history told by you learn to look to want to protect the person to your right and left, theres no me its just us. >> reporter: a succession of me. great generations. we see them as ten feet high, superheroes. but theyre also unapologetically human. >> i wasnt scared until we landed and then i look around thats when i got ...

Steve hartmans "on the road" with tonights "profiles in service." >> reporter: all marines train hard. but few are tougher and none are stronger than this elite unit of ten marines stationed in washington, d.c. >> we all wanted something to push us, and we found it. >> pushing myself mentally and physically. >> the most difficult thing that ive ever done in my life. >> its one of those things if you dont go through it, nobody will really understand. >> reporter: hes right about that. in this cas...

Isis claimed most of these lives, but the kurds now say these recent terror attacks and the military offensive are part of the coordinated turkish-led campaign of ethnic cleansing to drive them from this area. u.s. defense officials tell cbs news that the military has now completed its withdrawal of the kobani air base, norah, that was the main logistics hub coordinating that initial u.s. drawdown, but hundreds of troops remain. >> odonnell: charlie in syria tonight, thank you. tonight we have e...

But charlie dagata reports the situation on the ground is anything but secure. >> reporter: a pair of russian attack helicopters was not something we expected to run into here. followed moments later by a u.s. military convoy hauling supplies into syria. russia confirmed today it is setting up a new base in the northern city of qamishli right under the noses of u.s. troops here, yet for all its security forces now jostling for control, they have been unable to ensure security for the local popul...

At this time. >> reporter: brown went awol last month, abandoning his post at north carolinas camp lejeune. police say he returned to his home outside roanoke, where they believe he shot and killed his stepfather. no motive is known. today brown was seen outside his grandmothers house in roanoke. police found this r.v. belonging to brown nearby. they rammed it repeatedly with an armored vehicle, but brown was not inside. fearing he might still be in the area, authorities closed all 28 roanoke pu...

Mysterious name. >> every day >> every day. >> for 31 years? >> yep >> reporter: i pow mai bracelet, something is father bought on a whim t came in handy when neil was born and the parents needed a name. >> my dad was wearing the bracelet at the time and sort of suggested it and the agreed, hence i am expander >> reporter: etched into the bracelet, lieutenant neil c. washed ward, vietnam war pilot, posthumous to major, shout down and missing in action. but neil wanted to know more, he even found...

Down off okinawa about 1es salute for this performance. 96-year-old world ii army veteran pete du pray played the national anthem on his harmonica last night at madison square garden and he brought the house down. thank you for your service. and up next, our "profiles in service," how these workouts are changing veterans lives. uts are changing veterans lives. the water. but i still have recurring constipation, belly pain, straining and bloating. my doctor said i could have a real medical condit...

Holding the photograph of him standing before his friends grave so long ago. 75 years later, he found him. donald e. simmons, who died on june 6th, 1944. what he did not know, what that back in the u.s., in syracuse, new york, that fallen heros wc. and there were moved that nono went back to honor their loved one. and they would connect when he came home. >> there he is. im marie, dons sister.and ple mr. nono. >> im doris. im dons oldest sister. >> im elinor simmons. and i sister-in-law. >> im b...

Football fans who gave them a friendly reception [ cheers ] but more hard knocks await in washington as the presidents acting chief of staff mick mulvaney defied house democrats refusing to testify and is asking the court to support his claim of immunity while former national security adviser john boltons lawyer dropped an intriguing tease -- that bolton participated in many relevant meetings and conversations that have not yet been discussed in other testimony, as bolton also wants a ruling on ...

Great sand dunes national park in colorado. >> we walked across the sandy landscape and up a sand dune and then she got down on the ground. and i said, what are you doing? wn. l fun. i think it just tapped into some sense of childhood wonder in her. >> you lived! have fun getting back up. >> reporter: he brought grandma joy to the grand canyon, yellowstone, joshua tree, glacier national park, and redwood national park. >> how do you feel when you look up at these trees? >> they make you feel ver...