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>> good firefight. >> yeah. >> [ bleep ]. >> packing up rounds? that's fun, though. that was fun. you can't get a better high. it's like crack, you know. you skydive or bungee jump or kayak. but once you've gone shot at, you can't come down, you can't top that. >> how do you think you'll do in the civilian world, then? >> i have no idea. >> a scene from the new documentary "restrepr" in afghanistan. we're joined by the journalists who embedded with the 2nd platoon at combat outpost restrepo who shot that film. thanks for your time. congratulations on the film. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i ...

Narrative explanation about how individual firefights fit into battle, fit into battlefields, fit into the war, actually helps rather than hinders i think our understanding of how and why americans are still dying in this war, in the longest war we've ever fought as a nation. in year nine the pace of combat is going up and the number of troops is going up and the pace of nato casualties is worse than it's ever been with 46 americans killed already this month. the film "restrepo" shows americans fighting in 2007 and 2008 in a place we've now stopped fighting, the korengal valley. at the time th...

After spending all of those months with 2nd platoon, do you feel you're closer to figuring that out? >> i think i am. we were at a very remote outpost on this hilltop we were getting attacked three or four times a day sometimes. the guys, when they come back, often they want to go back -- when they come back to society they want to return to that hilltop, into combat. society thinks -- they think it's a question of adrenaline addiction. i think what they're really addicted to essentially is brotherhood. an otherwise very healthy impulse taking place in a very unhealthy place. i think if societ...

>> big firefight. >> packing up rounds? that's fun, though. that's fun. you can't get a better high. it's like crack, you know. you skydive or bun gee jump or kayak, but once you've been shot at, you can't top that. >> how do you think you'll do in the civilian world, then? >> i have no idea. >> a scene from the new documentary from afghanistan. we're joined by the journalists who 'embedded with the 2nd platoon. thanks for your time. congratulations on the film. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i won't direct this to either one of you, but you can jump in. why document one long deployment by one...