Simon this is a rare story so rare that 60 minutes has been following it for 12 years now. Its about the lost boys of sudan and how they found their way out of a country where civil war claimed two million lives. Thousands were allowed to travel to america to make new homes. I would say this is one of the most successful resettlements in u. S. History. Simon wow. Theyve come to a new world in every possible sense of the word. They had never even imagined things that are part of our lives. Wonderful machine. Simon the story of survival and hope tonight on 60 minutes. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im morley safer. Im bob simon. Im lara logan. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. Huh. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Mmmhmmm. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller . Your word is. Cow. Cow. Cow. C. O. W. E. I. E. I. O. [buzzer] dangnabbit. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you. 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Since 9 11, dogs have been used more than ever because nothing has proven more effective against hidden bombs than the nose of a working dog. The best of them serve with u. S. Special operations, and theyre in a league of their own. Its nearly impossible to get anyone to talk about them publicly because much of what they do is classified, but we were able to talk to the people who train them for this story. And, as we first reported in april, we took the opportunity to ask about what happened in boston while getting a rare glimpse inside the secretive world of americas most elite dogs. Green beret chris corbin and his dog, ax, are at 14,000 feet in the skies over north carolina. Theyre about to test a new harness that americas best soldiers will use to jump into combat. But its not for corbin, its for ax. As they freefall for nearly 10,000 feet at 125 miles an hour, ax is wrapped in corbins arms. Theyve been to war together, nearly died together, and they never like to be too far apart. Do you think he enjoyed it . Corbin he just wants to do whatever im doing. He doesnt care what it is. Logan youve said that these dogs feel like theyre invincible . Corbin absolutely. Logan what makes you say that . Corbin we dont train them to fail. Logan sergeant firstclass corbin is a dog handler with 7th special forces group, and he and sixyear old ax have been a team for three years. They deployed to helmand in southern afghanistan at a time when more americans were dying there than any other place in the country. Corbin and axs job was to lead their unit through a battlefield littered with hidden bombs. Corbin we walked in front. We cleared the pass for. For everyone to move through. Logan you say it so easily i walked out front like its nothing, but what does that actually mean when youre the one walking out front . Corbin you are the one risking. I hate to say the most, but, yeah, youre out front. Im the one who makes it safe or announces it as safe for everyone else to walk behind. Logan whats your level of trust in your dog . Corbin it has to be this Perfect Trust. Logan Perfect Trust that begins with trainers like former Navy Seal Mike ritland. Hes one of just a handful of people in this country who finds and trains these dogs for special operations and top tier units in the f. B. I. And Police Departments across the u. S. What can these dogs do on the streets of america . Ritland the. The very same thing that they do for. For our boys overseas, in that they. They detect explosives. They are a fantastic deterrent. They use their nose to find, you know, people as, well. Logan would an average police dog have found these bombs at the Boston Marathon if theyd already been placed on the ground, you know, before they were sweeping through there . Ritland there is a lot of variables that im not aware of as to where they were and what was done in terms of the sweeps. But, based on what i do know, yes, if. If dogs went through the areas where. Where they were placed, you know, your. Your average, Certified Police bomb dog should have found them. My thoughts are, if. If these guys are paying close attention to these dogs, theyre waiting. And when the dogs leave, they bring it in. They hand. They hand. They infiltrate, essentially. They drop it right where its busy, and, very soon after, it detonates. Logan mike ritland knows from his own experience on the ground in iraq what it means to have one of these elite dogs on your team. Ritland when you step outside that wire. Logan like, outside the base . Ritland outside the base, its crossing the border to hell on earth. Every step you take is that same feeling of, the very next step that i take may be my last. When you see these dogs operate in the capacity that they can, using their nose and finding explosives in. In the manner that they do, the. The. That level of comfort absolutely skyrockets in your mind because you know that youve got one of the besttrained, best equipped, bestcapable, you know, working dogs out in front of you that. That has your back. Logan we met mike ritland on his 20acre ranch in rural cooper, texas, where he runs his own company. Tell me some of the things that these dogs can actually do. They jump out of planes . Helicopters . Ritland you can freefall with em. You can rappel with them. You can fastrope with them. You can swim with them. I mean, they can ride on boats. They can ride on your back. Theres not really an environment that we operate in that. That you cant bring a dog. Logan theres such a demand for them that mike ritland says theyd be used on almost every mission if there were enough of them. And its not just about their nose. Ritland is training this dog rico to track humans and take down enemy fighters. Hes three and a half years old, and ritland has been working with him for the past year. Here, hes about to apprehend a suspect. These dogs can run faster than 30 miles an hour. The suspect is one of mike ritlands partners, and hes screaming to make this as realistic as possible. These dogs are trained to capture, not to kill. Ritland theres no human being on earth that can outrun them. You know, i can tell you that the physical capability of these dogs is impossible to explain and even hard to comprehend when you see it. Logan how hard can they bite . Ritland hard enough to break bones. I had a dog bite me right here, like this. He only had his mouth on me for probably four or five seconds and broke my wrist. Logan he broke your wrist in four or five seconds . Ritland yeah. I mean, just like that, just broke it. Logan mike ritland says they have to teach these dogs how to deal with someone who wants to harm them. The trainer is putting pressure on him without hurting him. The aim is to make the dog comfortable, then teach him to ignore it, and, by the end, ritland says, the dog wont let it affect him at all. Ritland the number one thing that i look for in a dog is that that dog, when pushed, and when hes put into an uncomfortable spot where physically and mentally hes got pressure on him and i give him the choice and its absolutely a choice to either stay and fight me or to quit and run that dog decides im going to stay and fight you, and im gonna beat you. When you do find that, it is a unicorn in that they almost dont exist. Logan arko is one of those rare dogs. Hes retired after repeated deployments to iraq and afghanistan, and he now lives on mike ritlands ranch. Most of what hes done is classified, so ritland could only tell us a little about the operation that almost killed him when he took down an enemy fighter who shot him in the chest. Ritland and he maintained control of the guy, you know, after being. After being shot, so. Logan at pointblank range . Ritland uhhuh. Yep. So, you know, its funny because a lot of. A lot of people, you know, i think scoff at the idea that, you know, what kind of. What. What kind of things, what kind of obstacles can these dogs really go through, you know . And its. Its more than most humans. growling logan for a dog to make it in the world of special operations, mike ritland says there are certain qualities that have to be there from the beginning. Ritland hes already, you know, displaying the prey drive and possessiveness that we like to see in that hell put uncomfortable objects in his mouth. Logan most of the dogs that do this work well are from one breed, belgian malinois. And there are only three places in the u. S. That breed them for toptier military units like this one in west virginia, where mike ritland gets some of his dogs. Oh, theyre so cute. Here, they specialize in the early stages of training, which starts almost from birth with loud noises that are meant to get them used to the sounds they may one day face in combat. Their noses are up to a 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans, and at just a few months old, they start learning to ignore other smells and distractions while zeroing in on the scent of a bomb. Ritland so, here shes trying to get him to be disobedient to that odor, and he wont do it. Logan theyll repeat this training over and over for two years so that by the time this dog goes to war or is needed on americas streets, nothing will take it off the track of a bomb. Ritland Everybody Knows that dogs can smell better than humans, but what they dont realize is that if you and i walk into the kitchen and theres a pot of beef stew on the counter, you and i smell beef stew. A dog smells potatoes, carrots, beef, onion, celery, gravy, flour. They smell each and every individual component of everything thats in that beef stew. And. And they can separate every one of those. You cant hide anything from them. It wont work because you cant fool a dogs nose. Logan dogs and their handlers work as a team, and they go through so much together, their bond is as strong as a band of brothers. Green beret chris corbin and ax almost died together in afghanistan on their final mission. Corbin says everything was going right that day, and ax had already found one bomb. They moved together to an area that had been cleared, and thats when he says he missed axs signal. Corbin all of a sudden, he wasnt pulling forward, he was pulling down. I was, what are you doing buddy . Hold still. I wasnt thinking it. Maybe hes sniffing my foot, maybe i passed by a dog all these other things why he would be looking down. And i looked down, and he was just intently sniffing all around my foot. And it started to occur to me that, okay. Logan wait a minute. Corbin with wires coming out of the building, were already in a place that we know is full of mines, why is he sniffing down on my foot . And at that moment, it was just that, too little too late. And that was it. Logan ax was shaken up by the blast but not wounded. Chris corbin lost both his lower legs. Yet, in less than five months, he was back on active duty as a green beret. He says ax had a lot to do with it and described the moment he saw him again for the first time. Corbin they brought him up for a visit, and i heard him getting him out of the back of the truck and opening his kennel. And he, just being a stircrazy dog, just, hey, let me out of here, lets do a look around. I just said something simple. Hey, wheres my boy at . And he stopped, he froze, he looked around, and he went into a panic until he found me and he jumped on my legs. Painful. Just. I was just happy to see him. I didnt care how much it hurt. Logan during our entire interview, ax never left corbins side and barely took his eyes off him. Corbin says hes fearless because he doesnt know when hes in danger. Some people might say, well, thats unfair to the dog because youre sending this dog into a dangerous environment where he could very easily lose his life or limbs, be wounded, and he doesnt understand. Corbin i could make him scared of it and make him not do his job and send soldiers to the same death. Thats my answer to that. Logan it wasnt until after 9 11 that special operations formally began using dogs, starting in afghanistan. Duane and his dog rex survived a tough deployment there in 2010. Duane i saw my dog, you know, trying to smash through doors, climb up cliffs, drag people down cliffs. Just track people, find odors that were hid. Hidden up in the ceiling, just you name it. It. It seemed like every day i was being amazed by these dogs. Logan duane has been a covert operator for 21 years. He told us these dogs are so effective, theyre now being targeted. A taliban commander told a member of our team that on his last operation, they were ordered to open fire on the american dogs first and deal with the soldiers next. In afghanistan, there have been 42 dogs killed in action, and when they are wounded in combat, they get the same care as any soldier. And when these dogs retire from special operations, some of them like rex, duanes dog find jobs with law enforcement. Hes now working with the san diego sheriffs department. Those who cant work anymore often end up with mike ritland, whos started the Warrior Dog Foundation to look after them. Ritland is the first person to write a book about these elite dogs. He says when budgets are being cut, he hopes people wont forget how much a welltrained dog like rico means on todays battlefield and on our city streets. And hes your dog . Ritland right now, he is, yeah. laughs thats always subject to change, but, you know, hes. Hes better served serving our country than he is being. Being my personal dog. So, you know, when the. When the time comes for him to. To answer that call, id. Id. Im always happy to see them go. Go do something for the greater good. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com to see one of our producers try to outrun an elite dog of war. Youre shopping at lowes y and you remember you need some replacement line for your string trimmer. But what gauge line do you need . No clue. I guess you could call your wife. No, no. It cant be that thick. Not like a big straw. Like a little coffee stirrer straw. A little thinner maybe. Check out the awesomeness of mylowes. It keeps track of everything you buy so you and your wife dont have to. 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Well, 3,000 did, as part of the largest resettlement of its kind in american history. We followed the boys for more than a decade and couldnt resist revisiting them, to see how theyre doing. But first, well take you back to northern kenya, to the kakuma refugee camp, springtime 2001. Nothing drew a crowd like the list. Once a week, the lost boys saw their destiny on a bulletin board, the staples of life. On this day, 90 learned theyd be going to america. Boston. Im going to flororida. Flororida flororida. Simon every sunday, a plane arrived at the camp to take the boys from nowhere to somewhere, from kakuma to j. F. K. And beyond. Not all of the lost boys got to go. Joseph taban rufino had walked to the board so many times, he tried not to get excited. Whats new . Taban something new. Yeah, ive seen my name on the board. Simon your name is on the board, huh . Where are you going . Taban thats kansas city. Simon kansas city. Do you know where it is . Taban i dont know. Simon abraham yel nhial was taking this walk for the 25th time. He was an ordained minister of sudans Episcopal Church at kakuma. He looked at the board as if it were a holy scroll. Yel nhial im going to chicago. Is it interesting . Simon oh, its very interesting. laughter yel nhial thank you for that. Simon they were called the lost boys because they were between five and 11 when their christian villages in southern sudan were attacked by Islamist Forces from the north. When they saw their villages burning, they started running. Streams of boys became rivers. Hundreds became thousands until an exodus of biblical proportions was under way. They walked for three months across sudan barefoot. 12,000 found refuge in ethiopia. But after four years, they were chased out at gunpoint, chased to the gilo river where the waters did not part. For joseph taban, that day will never go away. Taban we saw so many people who were just floating on the river. Simon dead bodies. Taban dead bodies, yeah, who are floating on the river. Simon many were shot, many drowned, many were eaten by crocodiles. Zachariah magok was there. Magok 1,000 to 2,000 who died in that river. Simon 1,000 or 2,000 died in that river . Magok yes. Simon it wasnt much better on the other side. They walked across deserts, over mountains. They had no food or water. Paul deng was seven when he started the walk. Deng you have to urinate so that you drink your own urine. Simon did you ever do it yourself . Deng yeah. I didnt want to die. Other people didnt want to die. Simon in the spring of 1992, after walking more than a thousand miles, the boys made it over the border into kenya, to a desolate place called kakuma. For the u. N. , it was an emergency of vast proportions, these emaciated children. For the boys, it was the safest theyd been in five years. Joseph became a medical assistant at the camp clinic. singing abraham found a job preaching the gospel in a church built of mud. The lost boys couldnt go home to sudan, and kenya didnt want them. Then, in the year 2000, the state department decided they deserved a break and invited them to come live in the United States. Sasha chanoff what we want to do is give you a correct understanding of what life will be like in america. Simon before they took off for their new lives in the new world, sasha chanoff, a teacher from boston, gave them a crash course america 101. Chanoff does anybody know who the president in the u. S. Is now . George bush w. Simon things they could not imagine, like winter. Chanoff this is a little what winter in america feels like. laughter what does it feel like . Its very cold will you die because of that coolness . Chanoff no, people do not die because of the coolness. Simon he had three days to prepare them for a leap of a thousand years. Chanoff many of them have never been exposed to lights or to a fork and a knife, or seeing a tv. Its a group thats lost in time. Simon they had four days to pack their luggage. They took little, left less behind. Abraham yel nhial Simon Abraham was taking a book hed been carrying for ten years. You still have the bible that you carried from ethiopia here . Yel nhial yes. Its my life. I have been called a lost boy, but im not lost from god; im lost from my parents. Simon as in any farewell, the lost boys were saying see you soon, but they knew better. Kakuma was losing its doctor and its priest. Take it together, and put it in. Simon the boys had never been on a plane before. Theyd never even been on a bus. Five planes in two days. First initiation rite airplane food. Here you go. Enjoy your meal. Simon . And then changing planes in brussels, getting their feet on the ground in the western world. Next stop for joseph taban and his brothers kansas city. Perkins there it is. Taban oh, yeah. Perkins you see the buildings . Thats kansas city. Taban i did not know that this place is so big like this. Simon abraham the preacher man was supposed to go to chicago, but, at the last minute, that was changed to atlanta. Volunteers introduced them to their new apartments, to american mysteries like a sink or a stove. Dont touch because it burns. Its hot. Simon . A vacuum cleaner or a can, let alone a can opener. Want to try it . Wonderful machine simon within a few weeks, joseph had his first job in a sweltering fabric factory. When he got home from work at 11 00 at night, he stayed up studying for that medical career hed always dreamed of. You wont be surprised to learn that abraham found his salvation in church all saints, one of the largest Episcopal Churches in atlanta. A month after his arrival, he was invited to be a guest deacon. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thanks be to god. Hallelujah, hallelujah. You were terrific, abraham. You were so good. Simon a big problem was the sheer size of america and everything in it. Home depot was a long way from home. Yel nhial this store is too big. Clerk oh, i know it is. Yel nhial this is confusing. Simon confusing . Try to imagine what a fountain looks like to a man whose walked a thousand miles through a desert. Sasha chanoff, who taught the boys back in kenya, said it was not easy for them to distinguish between what was real and what was pure fantasy in america. Chanoff theyre hearing that people have gone to the moon. If youre telling me people have gone to the moon, then theyre seeing on tv that a horse can talk. Why is a horse talking so different from someone going to the moon . Its hard for people to distinguish what is reality and what is not. Some boy saw a street sign that said dead end, and they thought, well, if i go down there, am i going to die . Simon then came 9 11 just a few months after the boys got here. They thought they had left that kind of thing far behind forever. Yel nhial and it seem that war is following us. Wherever we go, war came after us. Lets pray. Simon as it did, once again. The boys werent surprised by it, not the way americans were. For them, islam and terrorism went together. Always had. Their reaction was immediate help the victims. In atlanta, they offered to donate blood to the survivors in new york, but they were turned away. Yel nhial so, what we did, we did collect some money 2, 5 because we have nothing, and we give about 400. Simon 400 . Yel nhial yes, and thats amazing. Simon it really is. Yel nhial yes. A community with nothing, people just come from africa. Simon but they werent coming anymore. After 9 11, the flights scheduled to bring over more lost boys were stopped, and the boys already here were having a tough time of it. That dreaded american winter was now upon them. Theyd been warned, but it still came as a shock. Look, look, look laughs simon winter gave them fun times, as well, though. Ice capades. laughs simon what americans call a learning experience. laughs simon and, christmas, their first. In america, we call him santa claus. Dominic oh, yeah, santa claus. Yeah. Ive heard of santa claus. Simon he lives in the north pole and rides reindeer. Taban you mean he lives in the north pole . Is he from. What you call those people . Simon eskimos. Taban eskimos, yeah. Simon well, hes the guy who brings presents to kids. Taban okay, okay. Simon he makes kids happy. Thats the important thing. Taban oh, thats good. Simon within a year, a kansas City Investment banker, joey mcliney, took joseph under his wing and put him in the saddle. Mcliney whoa, now. Only use that leg. Simon mcliney offered up his brand new car for josephs first driving lesson. Mcliney okay. Brake. Brake no hit the brake thats the brake, the big one. Taban ay, yay, yay. Im so sorry for what i make. Ay, yay, yay. Simon that was nearly 12 years ago. In a moment, well give you a picture of the road the lost boys have been taking in america. Out there owning it. The ones getting involved and staying engaged. 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We never forgot about them and their fellow lost boys and, as we reported last spring, we felt good when it appeared they hadnt forgotten about us. Yel nhial hey, bob simon how you doing . Long time, no see. How you doing, buddy . Simon how you doing, man . Yel nhial been a long time. Simon we visited the lost boys from time to time over the last 12 years, wanted to be there for the moments they never could have imagined. I hereby declare. I hereby declare. Simon on this day, abraham was one of 92 people from 37 countries to get a new piece of paper. Congratulations, you are a United States citizen. Thank you. Simon . A lost boy who now belongs somewhere. Do you think of yourself as an american . Yel nhial yes. This, this home for me. Simon abraham is so proud of his american passport, he carries it with him wherever he goes. Yel nhial the only papers we have are from america. Simon are you telling me that that passport in that jacket pocket of yours is the first identity paper youve ever had . Yel nhial this is it. Simon before that, you had no document at all. Yel nhial no. Simon joseph still hasnt gotten a passport. His drivers license was stolen from him in kansas city. And that was just the beginning. Youve had your car flooded. Taban right. Simon youve been stabbed. Taban exactly. Simon youve been hit by a car. Taban thats right. Simon your kitchen was set on fire. Taban indeed. Simon and you like it here. Taban you know, things. Things happen. Simon there was more bad news at work. Joseph was laid off a few times from his job at a grain company, a victim of the tough economy. Hes back at work now, and, in his small, dimly lit apartment, still studies medical books even while his dream of going to med school is slipping away. Do you feel like youve been successful in america . Taban not at all. My main aim was to go to the school in order to be what ive said, to be a doctor. But things fall apart. Simon so, unless youre a doctor, you will not feel that you are successful. Taban thats true. Simon abraham did graduate from college. Yel nhial its been a long journey, but god blessed me. Simon after many 4 00 a. M. Bus rides to school, he got a degree in Biblical Studies from Atlanta Christian college. Congratulations simon sasha chanoff, who led those orientation classes back at kakuma, now runs an Organization Called refuge point, which champions refugees in africa. He still stays in touch with the lost boys. Chanoff i would say this is one of the most successful resettlements in u. S. History. Simon wow. Chanoff some of them are in law school. Some are in medical school. But, of course, when you have 4,000 guys or so who arrive, some dont do as well. Some struggle. Simon some have had problems with drugs and alcohol. A few are in jail. But some lost boys who were orphaned by war have been wounded fighting for the u. S. Military in iraq and afghanistan. Daw dekon made it out unscathed. So, you were in iraq. Dekon three times. Simon three times. Dekon yes. Simon he joined the army after 9 11. Dekon im a young man able to hold a gun or to go with other young men in this country who were born here. Why not . Thats my duty. Simon so, you joined the army because you wanted to give Something Back to america. Dekon yes. Dominic leek thank you, america want to let the whole world know. Simon dominic leek, a friend of josephs in kansas city, wrote a song he says represents the feelings of many lost boys. Leek when i came to this country, i was helped by the government of this country and the people of america. So, what i did was, i thank them for the opportunity they gave to me and my fellow lost boys. Yel nhial we were forced into the river. Simon abraham feels he has a mission to make sure people will not forget. He speaks at universities across the country. Here he was at yale, explaining to students why he believes god kept the boys alive. Yel nhial god kept us alive to be witness of what took place in sudan. That the only thing. Its not because we were more important than others, than our mothers, our fathers and brothers who have died. But simple, so that we will be witness. Simon it happened a long time ago, so the lost boys dont have too much trouble talking about it. But at nighttime, do you have a lot of nightmares . Taban oh, indeed, a lot. During the young age where we were when i was there, were not supposed to see the dead body or bury the dead body, and we did that. And thats all come, like, sometimes in form of dream. Simon for the lost boys, the most momentous news came in july of 2011. Their longsuffering homeland, south sudan, was declared the worlds newest nation. You saw the independent celebrations on your cell phone. Taban yeah. Simon how did it make you feel . Taban oh, i was overwhelmed, going into tears. Chanoff they were an important factor that led to that independence. Simon hang on. They were an important factor that led to independence . Chanoff i think so. They created a political environment in the u. S. Where people were finally realizing what was happening in this remote genocide in sudan that nobody had really heard of on a large scale before. women singing simon not long ago, sudanese flocked by the hundreds to a town called aweil for a celebration. It wasnt Independence Day or anything like that. They came to a newly built brick cathedral to witness the installation of that preacher named abraham as the first episcopal bishop of his region in south sudan. Simon a lost boy no more, its Bishop Abraham now. And who knows whats coming next. Maybe your next name will be archbishop. Yel nhial i dont know about that. laughter Simon Abraham divides his time now between africa and america. Not only is he an anglican bishop but a husband and a father. Oh, my heavens. This is your family . Yel nhial yes. Simon he goes back to africa whenever he can to visit his new family. He got married in kenya, has four kids. He wants them to join him in atlanta, but red tape keeps getting in the way. Yel nhial well, i would love that to happen, bob. Ive been trying for them to come, but they not came. Maybe one day somebody will surprise me, that you and your kids come to america. Simon joseph hasnt gone back to africa, has had no reason to. His whole family was dead, as far as he knew. Then, incredible news his mother, perina, was alive, had survived the war, had made it to a refugee camp in uganda. And there was another miracle skype. So, a few months ago, joseph ironed his best suit and went over to his mentors house. His mother had been driven three hours to the offices of i. O. M. , the International Resettlement agency in south sudan. It was the first time mother and son were going to see each other since they were separated by war 25 years ago. speaking sudanese language simon his mother had thought joseph was dead, had held a Funeral Service for him. Even now, she had no idea what hed been through. When joseph tried to tell her, he just couldnt get through it. But there were light moments, too, shared memories of josephs happy childhood in a Country Village before the war ended childhood and everything else. And, of course, his mother wanted to know why, after all these years, joseph had not married a nice american girl. After almost an hour, their time was almost up. His mother asked joseph what all mothers ask their sons when will you come see me . And joseph answered the only possible answer as soon as i can, mom. As soon as i can. Simon after we first aired josephs video reunion with his mom last spring, 60 minutes viewers donated enough money for joseph to fly to south sudan to see his mom in person. 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