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to do very effectively.

We're able to look

at things practically

and not just according

to a manual.

Does that make sense?

We'd heard

that we were going

to be walking

into a firestorm in Najil.

We'd heard stories

about Najil.

We'd heard it was

a hot area.

So we were prepared.

We were prepared

to walk into a shitstorm.

( Rock music playing )

Harrill:
COB Najil,

our new home

for the next

10, 11 months.

( Man chanting prayer

over loudspeaker )

Harrill:
So I'll never forget,

4:
00 in the morning hits

and they start

their call to prayer.

It's all you could hear.

It was just silent

other than that.

And that was kind of...

that was kind of freaky.

( Prayer song continues )

The first full day,

we had our first mission

to go to the cell tower.

We quickly learned

that the cell towers

would be a huge focus point

for the Taliban.

Tyler Brown:

I had a sit-down

with the outgoing

platoon leader.

He told me time and time

again... he's like,

"They're out there.

You get to this point,

you're gonna get hit.

You get to that point,

you're gonna get hit."

You just kind of have

this eerie feeling

like you're being watched.

Floyd:
Then enemy

maneuver pretty quick

on those mountains.

They've been running

those mountains

for years and years.

They can have high ground

on you in a pretty quick time.

That's pretty scary.

Harrill:

How much further do we got?

Colson:

See, right up there.

Come on, you got

about 200 meters.

Harrill:

I can do this.

( Breathing heavily )

Harrill:

Nobody shot at us.

We was just hot as sh*t

and that was it.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

I feel like

I'm about to puke.

Colson:
Yeah, well,

welcome to Afghanistan.

You good to make it

over to that cell tower?

Harrill:
Yeah, I'll make it.

I'll make it.

Colson:
All right.

Sip water. Sip some water.

Harrill:

All right, all right.

It's just so mountainous.

It's so mountainous.

Everywhere is up.

( Chuckles )

Everywhere you walk is up.

Harrill:

We went back to the COB

and had tacos or whatever

we had that day

and wrapped it up

and called it a night.

Brown:
It was a good

amount of time

where it was just

dead nothing.

We'd go out on patrols

and no traffic

for almost a good month.

Jordan Alex:

Come on. Get closer to him.

Get set, go!

Get closer to him.

Come on, Floyd!

Come on, Floyd!

Aw, Floyd's down!

Floyd's down.

Whoa!

Mycal Prince:
Alex and his

new pet monkey.

He's cleaning my head.

Is he getting bugs

out of my hair?

Yeah.

They were watching us.

They made us feel comfortable.

And maybe we got

too comfortable.

Prince:
Hey, that monkey

really likes you.

How long do you think

it will take...

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