was inside i saw that a large pulmonary artery and also a pulmonary vein had been lass rated. tying the vessels back together had to resect a small part of the lung damaged and then resected or take out the rib that had been shattered. >> the operation lasted two and a half hours. >> the next day, at the time it was lieutenant colonel petraeus basically looked me in the eye and said i'm ready to go home and i said you can't go home, no way. you just had an m-16 shoot you through the chest. hit major vessels. there is no way you can go home. >> he said at least send me back so i can be at a local hospital so i can be back with my soldiers. >> and what about the soldier that accidentally shot him. >> i read that some where when went back there instead of basically saying you're out, you are never going to be successful, he promoted him to ranger school. does give you an insight into general petraeus' psyche. >> since that encounter in the