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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...

October 3rd, 2009. hundreds of taliban fighters are attacking the u.s. troops below them in a valley. combat outpost keating is in chaos. specialist ty carter is pinned down in a disabled humvee with three other troops, brad larson, steffen mace, and justin giagos. how often were bullets hitting the humvee? >> it was pretty constant. it was be a ting ting, or boom and the vehicle would move a little bit. >> at that point, the unit's chief mechanic comes to help. >> that's when i grabbed him. i just yanked him in. he was extremely polite. oh, excuse me, sorry about that, as he was crawling over...

You hit a bull's-eye on a target. the only difference is every time i squeeze the trigger, my head or my mind took a very detailed picture that just kind of lasts with you. >> but the taliban still have the advantage, and the three men carter is covering go down. sergeant vernon martin. >> and i saw him kind of go towards the rocks, jump over the rocks. the last time i saw him is he had blood coming down from his kevlar on the back of his neck. >> and sergeant justin giagos, who is trying to help a badly wounded specialist steffen mace. >> bullets were impacting all around him. he turned to fi...