missions unit, most of it in afghanistan, iraq, and elsewhere. jimmy doesn t like to make a big deal of it, but he s seen a lot of combat in his life, and he s done some remarkable things to help protect us. on his last mission in afghanistan in 2009, jimmy was critically wounded, shot in the leg by a taliban fighter while searching for army private beau bergdahl. his life was saved partly because of a military dog in his unit named remco who was the first to spot the taliban fighter and the first to come under fire. i watched remco. i watched his body language, and as it changed, i knew we were getting close to something. and then before i realized what was there, he took a couple rounds to the head with an ak-47 at about six inches. remco was killed, and jimmy nearly lost his leg. he was so badly wounded he had to retire from the navy.
prisoner. despite the mirky details how he ended up a hostage, the objective was crystal clear. he was an american and had a mom. i didn t want his mom to see him get his head chopped off on youtube. that went through your mind? for sure. in the middle of the fire fight with every second counting, hatch split off from the team with two other men and a secret weapon, a dog named remco. at some point i could see a couple of guys, probably 4 or 500 meters away in flat field and moving and they kind of disappeared. so i m like we got to, you know, we got to get over there. we went at them, put the dog in front of his because his body language will tell you if there is people close by for sure and we couldn t see. the dog was out probably two or three meters in front of us and we were moving good. i saw his fur and ears go up and he started to pick up speed and boom, boom, two rounds go into the dog and muzzle flashlights
a hostage. for hatch the mission s objective was crystal clear. he was an american. he had a mom. i didn t want a mom see him get his head chopped off on youtube. you ve know what i mean. that went through your mind? for sure. reporter: in the middle of the fire fight with every second counting, hatch split off with two men and a secret weapon. a dog named remco. at some point i could see a couple guys, 400, 500 meters away. in a flat field. they were moving. then they kind of disappeared. so i m like we got to, got to get over there. we went, we went at them. put the dog out in front of us. his body language will tell you if there is people close by for sure. we couldn t see these guys. the dog was out, probably, two three meters out in front of us. we were moving pretty good. i saw his fur go up. his ears go up. he started to pick up speed. and boom, boom, two round go into the dog. the muzzle flash lights up. the guy who shot the dog.