in afghanistan. barbara starr reunites with them to see how they re recovering here at home. reporter: i don t know if you remember meeting me. i do. reporter: can i say hi. how are you? pretty good, ma am. reporter: i don t want to hug too tight. i m good, ma am. reporter: i first met private first class miguel garcia, specialist aaron knuckles and staff sergeant benjamin mcguire on stretchers wounded in a massive ied blast in afghanistan, they were making the journey home. now up and around back at fort campbell, kentucky, home of the 101st airborne division. we economchecked in to see how can doing. mcguire the worst injured. a shattered jaw. i came, started to come around as they were pulling me out of the truck the rest of wait. i saw him, they pulled him out of the truck. it looks like someone had just
just weeks after 9/11, the u. launched theasion of afghanistan. nine years later, the casualty toll is rising. our pentagoncorrespondent, barbara starr, has been following a group of american soldiers who fought together, were wounde together an traveled home together. now this band of brothers is recovering together. barba takes us behind the scenes to see how they re doing. reporter: i don t know if you remember meeting me. i do, mahi am. reporter: can i say hi? i don t want to hug tootight. hhow are you? we re fine. i m oo g rep ma am. reporter: i first met private first class miguel garcia, specialist aaron knuckles and staff sergeant benjamin mcguire on stretchers, wounded in a massive ied blast in afghanistan. they were making the. journey home. now up and around back at ft
campbell, kentucky, home of the airborne division. we checked in to see how their recovery was going. mcguire was the most seriously hurt, a shattered jaw. i was completely unconscious, ma am. the first memory i have of that whole event was i came started to come around as they were pulling me out of the truck the rest of the way. i saw him. they pulled him out of the truck and it looked like someone had just slit his throat because he was from that cut underneath his jaw, he was just it was a nightmare. reporter: the men initially thought they had been separated by the blst. ib it was horrible. i didn t know where garcia as. the worstit thing about it was one would tell me what s goingho on. i was like how s mcguire, how s mcguire, that s all i was yelling. nol one would actually tell me e was okay. reporter: but still a bit of humor when they look at their trip home when they were all still on heavy doses of pain