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This bomb maker in the open sas space. tell the story how he took him out. >> sure. real quick. there was a fierce battle in february 2010. during that battle a afghan was detained and brought back to the combat outpost. he was identified by a tribal leader as a taliban bomb maker. matt was in a position he wasn't able to detain the individual any longer, so he was released. he could have went anywhere in afghanistan after he left the outpost. shortly after that matt and one of the other members of his special forces team sat out to effect ambush if this individual was going to resume bomb mak...

Any assignment there, as we all knew was going to be a difficult one. we were out on a patrol with the marines. on our way back we were hit by an ied just outside the gates of hurricane point. it was a combat outpost. i believe it was an old palace complex on the west side of town. you know i have to say that while writing this it just reminded me of all the times the guys in this convoy and many other patrols for all those years went out daily and survived ieds and in many cases did not survive them. i talked to many marines during my time in anbar province as an imbedded journalist. i would ...

>> i checked on my crew to find out everybody is all right. i called it up that we were fwood to go, still rolling. >> the convoy continues quickly back to its combat outpost after inspecting their vehicles for damage, the men can finally breathe a sigh of relief. sergeant cat rel realizes the bradley's open hatch is what saved his life. >> i had it straight up, and i tell you, that hatch was between me and a lot of the debris that blasted through. put a few big dings in the hatch, but i'm very happy it was there and protecting me from large chunks of shrapnel or debris that could have probabl...

>> no cas. >> the radio came back on, he said they were all okay. >> i think i may have been knocked out for a few seconds, then realized what happened, checked on my crew, found out everybody is all right. call it up that we were good to go, still rolling. >> the convoy continues quickly back to its combat outpost. after inspecting the vehicles for damage, the men can finally breathe a sigh of relief. sergeant catrell realizes the bradley's open hatch was what saved his life. >> for protection i had it straight up. luckily the hatch was between me and a lot of the debris that blasted through....

With desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place and has referred the case to an article 32 preliminary hearing. again sergeant bergdahl is charged under the uniform code of military justice with one count of article 85 desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and one count of article 99 misbehavior before the enemy be endangering the safety of a command, unit or place. as you recall sergeant bergdahl disappeared june 30th, 2009 from combat outpost in paktika province, afghan...