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Or sad or mad because their life is on the line. >> reporter: ten years ago, matthew shockman, then with the u.s. army's 227 infantry, known as the wolf hounds, gave me a tour of ford operating base at the tip of the spear. >> there is a couple different points up on the ridge line up here where they shoot at us from. >> reporter: shockman was just 28 at the time. he had just had his second child who was not even a year old. a decade later, he is now a father of three girls and one boy. >> being able to see the changes in the way that women and girls are treated. you know, i have three daughte...

We got some answers from america's top commander in afghanist afghanistan. >> as of right now, stalemate or winning? >> we're only 90 days into this new policy, but with the u.s. forces that will be arriving, with the new authority we have been given, with the pressure on external even labels, we have set all the conditions to win. >> for more on this, we are in southern afghanistan traveling to a military base where u.s. and afghan leaders are set to discuss counter terror plans. >> we're here on the afghan side of the ford operating base in southern afghanistan. now, the commanding general o...

Spread across about 28,000 square kilometers about an area the size of vermont. >> building 8 field operating bases was a huge logistical challenge. >> the size of our area of operations makes it to where the marines are on the road all the time delivering supplies. >> oliver: in the whole area how many paveed roads are there? >> one paveed road and we call it ring road and the rest of our area of operation is very rugged terrain. >> oliver: this is it. this is the one paveed road? >> that's correct. pretty much in all of afghanistan. >> oliver: "war stories" joined forwardany 27 at ford opera...

Challenge. >> the size of our area of operations makes it to where the marines are on the road all the time delivering supplies. >> oliver: in the whole area how many paveed roads are there? >> one paveed road and we call it ring road and the rest of our area of operation is very rugged terrain. >> oliver: this is it. this is the one paveed road? >> that's correct. pretty much in all of afghanistan. >> oliver: "war stories" joined forwardany 27 at ford operating base on the edge of what was once a prospering city. then the taliban returned and created a who ar horrifying ght town. >> today, it...

Sergeant christopher duke was among those serving at ford operating base in february when a suicide bomber loaded with c-4 explosives approached. he said the fellow soldiers heard the dogs go nuts. >> they said they heard the dogs just going crazy like not abnormally crazy. they yelled for them to be quiet from the room. they said almost instantaneously is when the dogs alerted. >> shepard: setting off the explosives where dozens of soldiers were sleeping. sergeant duke and some of his buddies were bounded and the blast killed a third dog. help with charities today sergeant duke rereunited wit...