there's anything routine for green berets, but it did not go that way. when the firefight and ambush broke out, niger does not allow air strikes in its country, so the only thing that could be done to help them was 30 minutes later some french aircraft came in and flew low passes over the battle area to scare off the isis fighters and it was only after that that they were able to get evacuation forces in to help them. >> barbara starr, thank you very much. as john said, you have been on top of this from the beginning. we know you will continue to be and appreciate it. with us now is gold star mother, karen meredith. she comes from a long line of families that served this country in the military, and lost her only child, her son in iraq in 2004. he joined the army out of high school in 1995, and stationed in iraq in 2003 and was given the chance to lead his own platoon.