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Shooting at you. youre feeling it. people are dropping near you, but you still do that, you jump out there and step in mace? >> step in mace. it wasnt just me. i mean, the soldiers of black night troop did an excellent job of providing cover fire. they were able to help sergeant larson and i carry mace to the aid stakes and then from then on, because the aviation assets and friends, we were able to survive. >> eric: can we take a listen to the mother of stefan macy, who passed away in the hospit...

Cally saved men. he received the medal of honor. with us now is staff sergeant ty carter. thank you for joining us. first of all, from america, thank you for your service. >> thank you. >> eric: give us a play by play. tell us exactly what happened in that fire fight. >> in that fire fight, i woke up, threw on my body armor, sprinted through fire to my guard position. they needed more assistance. they were pinned down. we had to get out of there because the incoming fire would eventually breach ...

Capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. [ speaking foreign language ] >> hours into the battle, the soldiers of black knight troop are fighting back. but two of them, ty carter and brad larson are pinned down in a humvee. >> what larson and i had to do all the time, we had to completely shift positions, you know, fire like this, okay, theres another guy over there, and then open the window, fire over there. >> youre in this humvee, and youre just like sitting ducks. >> yeah. >> you cant lea...

That out. there could have been rounds coming in, but my entire focus was on mace. >> carter reaches mace. >> i asked mace, are you still alive? he said yes. and he started to turn, so i turned him over. >> carter ties a tourniquet on maces legs and stuffs gauze into bullet holes. he then tells mace to pretend hes dead and sprints back to larson in the humvee. >> he says, what is your plan? i said were going to bring him to the humvee? its the only safe place. >> larson lays down cover fire as c...

Grab mace. but the incoming fire is too intention. sergeant larson tells him, its a suicide mission. >> because of larson, i survived that day. and he held me back when i could have died going to get him, because i was going to go get him. >> time passes and the enemy fire focuses on other parts of the camp. carter thinks he hears a horn from a nearby truck. he darts to it. inside, he finds more ammo, and he realizes now is the time to rescue mace. >> i thought i would ask sergeant larson again,...

I would open the window and fire across the river at insurgents, and then i remember closing the window, and as soon as i closed it, sparked shot out. the two inch gap, the sniper zeroed in on and was trying to put a bullet in the vehicle to get either myself or sergeant larson. >> to make matters worse, taliban fighters are now inside combat outpost keating. >> we were low on ammo. everybody arund us that was friendly was either wounded or dead. >> specialist steffen mace was severely wounded o...

But ty carters stands out. >> the last three soldiers that got out with him were either wounded or dead, and ty carter got out under fire and he went forward in an extremely exposed position. after he had been told by larson hey, youre not going to do any good if youre dead, and he did it any way. he hauled him up a bluff under fire, and he gave steffen mace a chance. >> mace had been rushed by helicopter to a well equipped medical unit and into surgery. but it was too late. >> then i overheard ...

Try capzasin-hp. it penetrates deep to block pain signals for hours of relief. capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. >> hours into the battle, the soldiers of black knight troop are fighting back. but two of them, ty carter and brad larson are pinned down in a humvee. >> what larson and i had to do all the time, we had to completely shift positions, you know, fire like this, okay, theres another guy over there, and then open the window, fire over there. >> youre in this humvee, and youre ...