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everybody is good to go. nobody s injured. so we recover the vehicle and then we continue on the road. finally the group makes it safely to its destination. battered and shaken, but alive. phil is also a truck commander in the 235th who has survived numerous ieds. for a split second there s definitely a sense of, oh, god, this is it. this is it s all over. this is good. then you realize everything s good and you start hearing everybody again. you know that everybody s okay and you re like, all right, we made it. i ll zoom in on it. while deployed the platoon routinely watches their own videos to assess the attacks and evaluate their reactions. the videos were really a time to decompress after a mission. it was something to look forward to, being able to sit down together. ....
Soldiers gather around to watch it. the first time we watched the video, i think we all said the exact same thing that i said on the video. oh because even though we d watched the scene unfold in real life, you still don t see it coming. that s a lot of like patting on the back like, glad you made it through. the only reason that i think we didn t get blown up was the triggerman was a little slow or didn t have his timing right. i think maybe we were moving faster than he anticipated. the entire squad spends the next five days scouring the area of the explosion for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passage. it s one of those things where it s very personal when you get attacked. i ve had a lot of ieds blow up on my vehicle, even on my door ....
Of my vehicle. i ve had snipers shoot at me. this one wasn t directed at my vehicle, but it was still close enough that you take it very personally. and it becomes a little miniature battle inside the war between just you and that other person who s trying to kill you. when you come out on top, you realize that you re still alive, so he failed. you may not have killed him, you may not have captured him, but he still failed, and that feels good. coming up journalists under siege in afghanistan. as we tried to cross an open stretch of road, we came under attack. ....