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Credit for. he did talk about it in the campaign. he stopped as president. i'll give him credit for that. he's in the chain of command of the individual who was in that court and i would have thought that that would have been beyond the pale, but he didn't do that. afterward, he made a statement and i hope what happens is we don't get distracted of what happened and where i just disagree with my good friend, desertion isn't about a personal thing any way. you serve in a unit to protect the people on your left and right and so when you desert, it's more than a personal gain. you're causing harm...

Take control. ask your doctor about nonprescription ibgard. u.s.-backed forces say 90% of the isis stronghold in syria has now been liberated. that is raqqs ea we are talking about. nearly 200 of their families have surrendered in that city. n ir nick joins us with more. >> reporter: we just don't know when the city will be labor rated and how long it will take and for a number of reasons. firstly, this is an incredibly fluid combat environment where there is more real information coming out from the ground sort of entirely objective and there are many different factors at play here. yes, ho...

>> no. >> this one. >> this is us in afghanistan. >> i mean, and we were in, you know, some harsh -- >> we were probably in the extremist combat environment as you can fathom. it tested you in every way, physically, mentally, emotionally. >> we are it. when you need the army, we are the vanguard, the spearhead, the praetorian. >> 15 years. >> wow. since vietnam. >> yeah. >> we're talking about people, you know, as a unit we've been deployed doing some pretty crazy crap. wow. you get into a unit like this and that's what you do. that's your game. >> i've been in the military now 30 years.

As most humans would have been. i heard one young man interviewed today say that, like the movies, they could tell where the gunfire was by seeing the dust come up from the ground by seeing particles fly up from objects that were hit and they knew when they had to move when he was obviously pausing and reloading. but all of which is to say he couldn't believe he was in a combat environment. >> yes, i mean, at one point, and i may have taken video at this point. i don't know if i caught myself on the video. i haven't watched it myself. i can't bring myself to do that yet, but at one point, i re...

Film. it's about what happens in war. >> it would turn into america's longest war. 16 years of fighting, dying and the anguish of those who survived and the families left behind by the fallen. >> a stream of combat environment as you can fathom. it tested you in every way physically, mentally, emotionally. >> then captain mark nooch led a team into the mountains of northern afghanistan in the fall of 2001. team 595 rode horse back with thousands of local fighters to begin the liberation of the country. another team in the south led by then captain jason emory. on december 5th, 2001 u, in a fri...