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Go army. >> the 49 soldiers digging in by hand, trying to establish a new combat outpost in a village called wanat, the afghan contractor responsible for bringing heavy equipment had not shown up. >> there's people up here, they want to shoot at us. is what is happening. >> the company was warned the taliban was planning an attack, and that is exactly what happened. jonathan brostram was the platoon leader often his last trip home, a surprise visit for mother's day, he told his father about one last mission in afghanistan. a mission he was worried about. >> they were moving out of a place call...

Many names are tossed out as troops contacted us, they were the republican nominees already. pushing out to a brand new some wonder if the tea party which backed candidates all combat outpost that had no across the country will help infrastructure. just right along taliban lines near the pakistan border and or hurt the g.o.p. said we're filling sandbags establishment candidates. and piling rocks on top of we have panel, campaign each other to create an advisor to senator elect marco outpost. we have no perimeter security equipment. we are pushing troops out rubio, todd harris and also we faste...

Before. we went out and we saw nothing. so it goes to show you that you never can fully prepare for that type of experience. but it is like nothing -- nothing else, i suppose. you are thinking about nothing but staying alive. you have bullets whizzing by your ears. can you not believe that you're still alive after something like that that you saw in that piece lasts. you only saw a few seconds. that went on for ten minutes. and the taliban who were ambushing them were only ten feet away from the u.s. forces and that combat cameraman. so it's -- anything goes. sometimes your life flashes in fro...

I felt like i was fish in a barrel. >> they're gathering intel right now basically on how to deal with us, because they haven't -- there's no really research or intel on how to treat us right now, because they haven't had to deal with people like us since, you know, world war ii and vietnam. dealing with guys that are coming back from 15-month deployments with as much fighting as we went through. >> this week a new film is released that tracks one deployment by one u.s. army platoon in afghanistan. it's called "restrepo." after the isolated combat outpost built by the soldiers in the film. it'...

Fight for his job in any way. that he would actually not accept continuing on. he's that kind of a stand-up person according to this -- the person i just spoke to. also, he describes he didn't think this was a really fair article. that a lot of times when you are out of -- on a combat outpost or when you are with your staff and letting loose, you do make disparaging comments about people you work with. he fell that some of those comments were exaggerated. there is a great sympathy for people who know general mcchrystal and they described this as a personal tragedy that such an illustrious care...