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Second marine division during the largest helicopter assault since vietnam. 4,000 marines were being dropped behind enemy lines, and i was embedded with this unit during this offensive. and how is it that we could be in a war, the longest war in america's history where we have information like this where two-thirds of the soldiers are on the front lines when they come back where they say that war or those wars were not worth fighting and yet our political apparatus is asleep at the switch and for that matter much of the american population? >> it's a extremely difficult situation. the fighting...
And you hept been there very long before you were in a fierce firefight. >> yes. >> how did you get involved? >> i was embedded with echo company 2-8. in july 2009 4,000 marines were dropped behind enemy lines. this was the largest air assault and decisive operation that could swing the war one way or another. shortly after landing we were attacked on all sides. the fight focused on this pile of rubble that became known as machine gun hill. one marine was killed, another collapsed from exhaustion and almost all of us had run out of water. that's where sergeant harris handed me his last bottle ...