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After slowing bleeding and putting a turn kit on mace's leg, he carried him to soldier. after going into surgery, stephan mace died. his mother is beyond grateful for carter ear courage. >> ty gave my son peace. he gave him safety. he gave him comfort. he allowed stephan to have the thoughts that he would be coming home to us, coming home to his family. >> in all, eight americans were killed in the battle. another 25 wounded. the outpost was shut down afterwards. ty carter plans on staying in the army and talking about ptsd, which he fights with still sometimes. he says all of his brothers out...

Boots, helmet, kef lar vest and bullets rained down. when they needed more ammunition, he ran back. blasted locks off supply rooms and sprinted yet again, dodging explosions, darting between craters. back to the humvee. the ferocious fire forced then unside and so was that five american soldiers, including ty and specialist stephan mace found himself trapped in that humvee. tires flat. rpgs pouring in, peppering them with shrapnel, threatening to break through the armor of their vehicle. and worst of all, taliban fighters were penetrating the camp pt choice it seemed was simple. stay and die o...

And if you're left with just one image from that day, let it be this -- ty carter, bending over, picking up stephan mace, cradling him in his arms and carrying him through all those bull aets and carrying him backo the humvee. then he stepped out again, getting a radio. then they came up with a plan. as clint provided coverage, the three made their escape. ty, brad, stephan, getting through the chaos, delivering stephan through the medics. battle still wasn't over. so ty returned to the fight. with much of the outpost on fire. with so many wounded inside. ty stepped out one last time, exposing...

As ty know is, part of the healing is facing sources of pain as we prepare for the citations, i will ask you, ty, to never forget the difference that you made on that day. because you helped turn back that attack, soldiers are alive today. like your battle buddy in that humvee, brad larson, who told us, i owe ty my life. because you urge -- you have had the urge to serve others at whatever cost, so many army families could welcome home their own sons. and because of you, stef yn's mother, vanessa, who joins us again today, is able to say, ty brought stephan to safety, which in the end gave him...

>> it got to a point where a sniper knew where i was at, and 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, spark 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 around us that was friendly was either wounded or dead. >> specialist stephan mace was severely wounded outside the humvee, exposed to the enemy....