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we're on a foot patrol of in

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marjah . It was pretty much

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a reconnaissance patrol . We're going

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out to an area we haven't really been

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in before . So we set up in uh L . P .

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O . P . Which pretty much like

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Overwatch of that area . I was on the

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roof and I've seen some guys moving

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through this lahti and usually you can

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make out of their farmers are not by

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what they're carrying . I could make

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out what was in their hands , what they

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were all carrying and all that . And

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they were walking in a group which is

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pretty unusual to , so I told my squad

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leader so he had me get down from the

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roof and we started patrolling out

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towards that way . Whoa !

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There were some compound walls that

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were blocking our vision of the people

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that I've seen . So we didn't see them

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again until when we came out of the

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compound and by then they had set up in

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a tree line and down in this wadi where

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we took cover and they waited until we

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got closer and we couldn't really see

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them then and they opened up on us .

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Yeah it was pretty accurate fire . Six

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of us got shot that day out of 10 or

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11 that we left with and

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I got shot right off the bat and my

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right leg , it wasn't nothing bad . It

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was just in and out , didn't hit any

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artery or bone . My buddy behind me got

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shot . Well my

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buddy in front of me in front of patrol

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guys shot in the shoulder . And then um

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I'm not sure when the other three end

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up getting shot . It was during the

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whole firefight . It was just pretty

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chaotic . But we kept things under

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control . They were trying to maneuver

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on us and We gained five security

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orient on them . They weren't trying to

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maneuver on us no more . So after

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things kind of die down a little bit

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and we realized that there could be

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more of them because there were shots

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coming from different directions . We

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decided that was good that we broke

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contact and we went , no

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forget what direction we went . But we

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went back into another compound close

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by , that is where we set up security .

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We waited for our air support and then

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once air support got on station , the

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medevac were landed , picked up me ,

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my buddy corporal Hathaway and a mother

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buddy , Lance corporal cole . And we

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got metal back to bastion here at

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leatherneck . When it happened

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right , I knew I got shot but it didn't

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really affect my mobility at all

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because I mean as you can see it's just

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throwing through . But my

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adrenaline was just going so much that

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I just kept firing back , Just carry a

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to 40 around . It's like the biggest

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weapon we had on that patrol . And then

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um About 10 minutes into it . My

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legs started going on from loss of

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blood or whatever the reason may be .

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So my buddy bailey came over and he was

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catching my leg up man while I was

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getting patched up . I had my egg

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gunner who score will call that , told

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you about who's another casualty ? I

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had him take the gun up to the top of

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the wadi in the start putting rounds

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down range . Almost immediately he

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caught a pretty good burst to his arm .

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I think it was two rounds hit his flak

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and I believe it was two rounds hit him

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in the arm . It was arterial . So we

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had to pull him down and put some

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tourniquets on his arm and a pressure

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dressing being here . One of the worst

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things is when casualties come in over

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the computer or K . A . Is especially

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when it's somebody you know and you

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can't do nothing about it because

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you're here and there in Marcia . So

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just just let me go to get back with

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all my brothers , you know , my family

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back in the patrol base and keep

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continuing on with our mission .