>> i joined the marine corps in 2007. in february of 2009, we deployed to iraq. then we finally made it into afghanistan. my job is to find ieds, to keep other marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and even the local populous safe. that was my job. i loved it. i enjoyed every minute of it. we had another mission come down, and the night before we left, i had ended up getting on the phone and called my dad. there was just something about this mission that just didn't sit right with me. i just felt like something was going to go wrong. we had set up the night before on the other side of the hill, you look down, there's about a mile-long stretch of this little village where no one lived. we were going to go through to