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Tonight, there are questions about the medal of honor awarded to navy seal britt slabinski today at the white house. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has a story of a nearly forgotten battle in the very earliest stages of the war on terror. >> speak of my teammates alive,i know he is in the territory. >> six months after the 9/11 attacks, then senior chief britt slabinski led a seven man navy seal team to set up an observation post in eastern afghanistan, on a 10,500-foot mountaintop to support u.s. forces admit valley below battling al qaeda in an operation known as anaconda. ...

Protocol landing on the objective or x and whether they left a fallen comrade behind. >> we landed on top of the mountain. my helicopter took rocket propelled grenade fire right away. >> why did you have to land on the x? didn't you break protocol landing on the x. >> i was told i had to be in position by sun up. that's what i did. >> neil roberts fell out of the back of the helicopter into the snow. the army chinook crash landed four miles away. they were ordered up the mountain to rescue roberts who survived the fall. >> i said go right back to the spot. >> when they landed to rescue roberts...