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That out. there could have been rounds coming in, but my entire focus was on mace. >> carter reaches mace. >> i asked mace, are you still alive? he said yes. and he started to turn, so i turned him over. >> carter ties a tourniquet on mace's legs and stuffs gauze into bullet holes. he then tells mace to pretend he's dead and sprints back to larson in the humvee. >> he says, what is your plan? i said we're going to bring him to the humvee? it's the only safe place. >> larson lays down cover fire as carter runs back to mace. >> i was able to pick him up and carry him up the hill to the humvee. >...

Grab mace. but the incoming fire is too intention. sergeant larson tells him, it's a suicide mission. >> because of larson, i survived that day. and he held me back when i could have died going to get him, because i was going to go get him. >> time passes and the enemy fire focuses on other parts of the camp. carter thinks he hears a horn from a nearby truck. he darts to it. inside, he finds more ammo, and he realizes now is the time to rescue mace. >> i thought i would ask sergeant larson again, hey, can i go get mace now? he thought about it, and he says all right. you know, but wait for me,...

I would open the window and fire across the river at insurgents, and then i remember closing the window, and as soon as i closed it, sparked shot out. the two inch gap, the sniper zeroed in on and was trying to put a bullet in the vehicle to get either myself or sergeant larson. >> to make matters worse, taliban fighters are now inside combat outpost keating. >> we were low on ammo. everybody arund us that was friendly was either wounded or dead. >> specialist steffen mace was severely wounded outside the humvee, exposed to the enemy. >> he says, help me, please. and i saw the look on his face...

But ty carter's stands out. >> the last three soldiers that got out with him were either wounded or dead, and ty carter got out under fire and he went forward in an extremely exposed position. after he had been told by larson hey, you're not going to do any good if you're dead, and he did it any way. he hauled him up a bluff under fire, and he gave steffen mace a chance. >> mace had been rushed by helicopter to a well equipped medical unit and into surgery. but it was too late. >> then i overheard that -- i overheard that mace died on the operating table. and that blow destroyed me. i felt tha...

Try capzasin-hp. it penetrates deep to block pain signals for hours of relief. capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. >> hours into the battle, the soldiers of black knight troop are fighting back. but two of them, ty carter and brad larson are pinned down in a humvee. >> what larson and i had to do all the time, we had to completely shift positions, you know, fire like this, okay, there's another guy over there, and then open the window, fire over there. >> you're in this humvee, and you're just like sitting ducks. >> yeah. >> you can't leave, but you can't stay. and then what happened?