Interview Slabinski News Today

Helicopters had already been chopped. >> why didnt you radio before hand? >> radios had limited range. by the time i got to the right frequency they had been shot down. >> reporter: 5 mirrors of the rescue team -- >> up there all day. no less deserving. >> reporter: and interview slabinski, shooting the course of enemy combatants. >> shot 20 times in the leg and every time you take him or shoot him you can see his body twitching. >> if you could hear the whole clip of that, he was still engaging...

Before them so they knew you had a helicopter hit there? >> radios have a limited range. by the time i got there, they had gotten shot down. >> five members of the rescue team, including three army rangers, were killed. >> i think everyone that followed me out there that day, is no less deserving of the award. >> adding to the controversy, and interview slabinski recorded 2005, and which he described shooting the corpse of an enemy combatant. >> he was dead, but i shot him about 20 times in the ...

Us service members dead and led to fierce debates about whether they ever should have landed on that mountain and whether they inadvertently left a fallen comrade behind, some question the decision to land so close to the objective breaking a cardinal rule for commandos. why did you have to land there? did you break protocol by landing on the x? >> i was going to land at another location and make my move on foot. there were other changes that forced me to adapt my plan. >> reporter: what were th...

>> reporter: what about those critics who say decisions you made got people killed that day and that is not what the medal of honors for? >> the commander is in the field, the best possible information available at the time. to do that, very stressful time. >> reporter: do you think chapman survived? >> wasnt what i experienced. >> reporter: drone footage enhanced by new technology became available that appears to show a loan fighter battling on the top, special operations forces tell fox news t...

Slabinski remembered his boy scout training. >> eyes on me, they were looking at me, no place to go, had to go back up to the spot. i am thinking sorry for what is about to come. i love you. >> one of the pilots, chief warrant officer alan mack, the helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team into harms way. >> it was outs voice, wished the team leader good luck. >> reporter: a team leader, technical sgt. john chapmans job was to call in air strikes. he wa...