carter is, kind of like for lack of a better words, a robot. he gathered up as much ammo as he could and he took off. and i can see explosions going off and impacts. the more impacts i saw, the faster i ran. had you ever seen anything like that? had you ever seen that kind of fire coming in? no. it wasn t just the seeing, it was the hearing. there was so much incoming fire, and outgoing fire that there was no break in any type of explosion or sound. three men are in the humvee that carter is trying to reach. sergeant bradley larson, specialist steffen mace, and sergeant justin giagos. they need more ammo and lubricant for their .50 cal machine gun. so he runs back to the barracks through a barrage of enemy fire.
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 me. i didn t care. i just wanted to get him in and get the door shut. now there are five men trapped in the space of roughly
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 fire and he was taken down. i yelled, giagos is down. that s when sergeant larson, i heard him say, you know, i just took out two guys over here, get back in the vehicle.
[ speaking in foreign language ] 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, stephan mace, and justin giagos. how often were bullets hitting the humvee? it was pretty constant. it was be a tink, tink, 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 me. i didn t care. i just wanted to get him in and
the same feeling you get when 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 stephan mace. bullets were impacting all around him. he turned to fire and he was taken down. the builts hit him and it spun him around. i yelled, giagos is down. that s when sergeant larson, i