The Hornet's Nest

That's gonna be pretty upsetting for him.

No one's ever dared to go in there.

You think that's gonna cause a ruckus?

Careful.

Get over here!

- What is that? - RPG.

That thing's brand-spanking-new.

I'm down here, on Objective Richmond,

I don't know what it is.

A couple box of fuses.

Definitely an indicator that we caught them by surprise. Break.

- Hey, Zee? - What's up?

Give me eyes on that bridge at your eleven.

Get down around here now! Get something in front of you!

Fuck!

Roger. We're shooting. We got contact up on the hill

Holding six, moving three-six.

Bostic's shot...

My name is Mike Boettcher.

For the past 34 years,

As a war correspondent,

It cost me my relationship with my family

Birthdays,

You name it.

So when it was time for me

With or without my permission.

He said, "I need to know why you chose your work over us."

As much as I wanted to say no,

So off we went...

together,

father and son.

The only trick was...

we had to come out of there alive.

Looks like they attached two different wires

For power? Where does it go to?

Right into the house.

Gould!

What were you saying again?

He's next to the vehicle. Why?

So you're a good luck charm?

Whoa!

Son of a bitch!

- Yeah, still warm. - Still warm?

Yeah, we got a bunch of these that we were just shot at

Very deadly when it hits you.

And then watch me. Hey, I'll either go up,

He's still too low!

Oh, nice.

One person injured.

They are reporting everything's okay right now.

Good. It's not gonna be okay.

They don't, they don't know what's about to hit 'em.

Roger that. I need to go to the left of that.

Give me, uh, three shots right there for right now,

- Yeah! - Good hit!

Whoa, baby!

Two-zero-seven, dark knight four-two.

There's a false bravado involved.

Uh, they just haven't fought us yet.

How close were those bullets coming to you?

Gunfire buzzes when it's close enough to you.

Steve Lutsky, Colonel Lutsky.

I expect these guys to risk their lives

It was a fight to stay alive when you were with Steve Lutsky,

And sure enough, we were.

Tag two, tag one, over. They saw three, uh, possible insurgents.

They were regressing straight south from that location,

The problem was, the Taliban found us before we found them.

I'm up here...!

The problem is, you had no idea where they were firing from.

You couldn't see 'em.

Yeah.

Snipers firing from this...

from the tree line over there.

Snipers firing at us from the tree line just over there,

behind some cover, but not much.

- They want us to go up. - Okay, okay.

Okay, I'm going.

Here we go.

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

I had no idea if he was alive or not.

I wasn't a reporter then. I was being a pop.

And the one thing I could not let happen

Was...

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

Carlos!

What the hell were you thinking?

You okay?

To the best of my ability, I was.

Hey, by the way, their aim sucks.

Okay.

Ambushes along the road

Ambushes along the road are one of many reasons

- All right. That was good. - Any suggestions?

You all right?

These are the first houses that they would bring him to.

Hear any of the shooting?

Yeah, we heard the fighting.

One of them was wounded,

Watch your head.

What the hell is this?

I, I don't think you're Taliban,

We have to arrest the insurgents and tell them they're not welcome here.

That's a roger.

Yeah, we're en route at this time.

Hey, uh, I need to know if this situation...

We need to know when you think we should come in from the south,

- Sixfour, roger. - That'll be six-four-six.

[ Baby crying 1

The American convoy was traveling this direction.

After we realized what happened,

There was a lady off to the side, next to a, uh, kalat,

I started calling for the medic over the radio,

Private Richter, how long you been in the Army?

And, uh, it didn't need to happen.

101 over 60, pulse 72.

I looked at the eyes of the medics,

They weren't gonna let him die.

The name of the child?

I'm very happy that he kept his leg.

We go out of our way to make sure people like Sadiq don't get hurt.

In the end, does it change Afghanistan?

But it saved that kid's life,

Get well. We'll see you.

I got a son, Jake, who's 10 years old.

- Can you imagine? - No.

Did it sink into you that you had saved a child's life?

It did, but uh,

that's... that's why I'm here.

Afterwards, ground unit came up by and thanked us,

This all-woman crew

I call it, you know, the band of sisters and a little brother.

We just consider ourselves just soldiers, like, like everyone else,

The countdown to hugs and kisses,

I'm a mom. I understand how every other mom feels,

Kids are the ones that usually give all the good information.

I talked to some kids here on scene.

The villagers are the ones that actually came to us,

Nah, I love doing this.

'Cause right now,

Yep, got the pressure plate.

But, uh, we've definitely located, uh, one pressure plate at this time.

Front line traced to the pressure plate,

Holy hell.

How much you think was in there?

My intent is for us to get in there,

Yeah.

But let's not do anything fucking stupid, huh?

We have a mission tonight,

from here, past those mountains,

I believe in each and every one of you,

Dedicate yourself to America's battalions and our mission.

Your measure is not found in how much time you have on this earth.

These people have suffered for too long.

Change the course of history in Afghanistan.

We had marched for days with the Marines.

Unbelievable.

We ran out of everything.

And then we got, finally,

This could be Gulf Company's new home.

- This is it! - Okay, let's get a team up there.

Next team's coming up!

Roger. Fox One's clearing the area right now.

Go! Go!

Oh, my God.

What is this here?

And this is pure heroin down here, you said?

So what do we have here?

Walled compounds like this one fill Helmand Province,

We knew that we'd accomplished our mission,

There is a squad that's surrounded.

Someone else has to go,

Saying he'll go in place of me.

Hey, do I got any friendlies over there?

- Right or left? - Uh, go left of the compound.

You got the dude in the white turban that keeps looking at us?

While movement through the fields and canals is slow,

There's a copper wire. Where is it?

- Oh, yes. - And it's running up

A patrol this morning found an IED.

They cut the command wire, which is a wire that runs to a device

Command, three-two.

When you enlisted, you didn't ask for this job, did you?

The villagers did not come. The Taliban did not attack.

Stand by.

Hey, we got two people, 600 meters away from us, moving southeast.

- Hey! - Yeah?

Fuck!

Hey, what is he talking about?

Send your traffic. Hope you rock.

- I can't! I got bad left. - Do it! Shoot it!

I shot at that motherfucker that walked by the compound down there.

Saw him with a fucking AK in his hand.

Shoot him!

- I hit that son of a bitch. - Go!