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Behind us. >> oh, my gosh! >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: there was a flash of orange. ears ringing. then another. that was the second massive explosion like that that the first was a suicide car bomb. it explode on the vehicles that are just behind us. there are a number of soldiers running in the street. one was carrying his buddy, who seemed to be wounded. they spot enemy movement. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: the incoming fire is now intense. the bulldozer is hit. our vehicle takes more fire. soldiers shoot at a motorbike

Ringing. literal ears ringing. i don't know when your ears stopped ringing, but then you sort of jux thata juxtapose that with this proverbial ringing as far as the fighting goes. it's become louder and louder especially now that you're watching the news on our network and this place that you covered where now the city is in isis' hands. >> yeah no it's -- as a result of that ied, i didn't say anything about it at the time to chris because i didn't want to worry him and didn't want to worry anybody, but my ears were -- i'd been concussed. i feel the effects of that to this day. so when i heard...

We knew we were going to have a baby and so we were just trying to calculate like when, hopefully he'll be back right before i deliver. >> reporter: but four months into the deployment joe's team responded to a quadruple ied blast which left a marine injured. after carrying that marine to safety joe stepped on a fifth undetected bomb. >> ears ringing, you know, you get hit by a freight train, and then pretty much i woke up in the blast hole and it was, you know, a cloud of dust and all i could see was red and white. >> reporter: he lost both of his legs and most of his left arm, but never stop...

Americans to one of the most dangerous career choices imaginable, explosive ordnance disposal. joseph deloria did it in the most dangerous places in the world. his yob was disabling live bombs in iraq and afghanistan. in 2011 joe kissed his pregnant wife lisa good-bye and left for another deployment. >> the last time i saw him was mother's day, 2011. we knew we were going to have a baby and so we were just trying to calculate like when, hopefully he'll be back right before i deliver. >> reporter: but four months into the deployment joe's team responded to a quadruple ied blast which left a mar...

My sister answered the phone. she screamed at me, she said, samantha, travis is dead. i could barely breathe out the words, what happened? she told me that know one knew. the police didn't provide any details. to this day my mind keeps a picture of what happened the night travis was taken. even though i try not to let it, upon standing in the same exact spot where this horrific tragedy happened, when we had to go to trial after the investigators were sent, i saw the same sickening feeling, my ears ringing, burning stomach, my eyes were filled with tears so i