So we get up to the target, the Bradley maneuvered into position, and there's like, this tank round just flies out of nowhere and then you start to hear like

tink tink tink tink and the ramp

goes down and we peel out

and I've ran towards the target

building and as I like

clear all the stuff there's smoke and stuff

and I just get this weird feeling like

not everybody's with me so I kind of like take a knee

and I'm like

waiting nobody's running by me and I'm realizing you hear like snap snap snap and then all of a sudden

like I get the squeeze in his work behind me so we go up to the front door so I ran up kicked it open

and it propels me past the first two rooms I'm like on my gun the whole time and I just give the

gun upstairs and as me and Chuckie get to the top of the stairs, this machine gun fire just comes in, dude, and it comes in heavy. You could tell it was really close and all of a sudden you hear man down, like dire man down. And then he goes, we need to form it down here now. So I just, it's like three bounds down the stairs and I get down

to the stairwell. As we're coming down, I go to grab Mark and another bunch of machine gun fire

comes down through there. So I kind of like duck out of the way and Mark is, do he's down.

And Nick, our EOD guys, returning fire, I catch Nick's eye. It looked like sheer terror,

the look that he gave me. So grab Mark

and I've drug him around that little alcove and I just started cutting Mark's gear off.

You know, it was pretty apparent that he took one round right to the teeth. I could see

the whole left side was, was already bruising. You could see it all on his cheek. His face was like white, and Mark was tan. I get the gear off, and, dude, I'm just doing, like, a quick assessment. And, dude, there's nothing, man. I was like, we need a Kazavak now. It's like, all right, it's outside. So I go, and I sling Mark up on there, and I start carrying him, dude.

Dude, it's heavy.

You know what I mean?

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