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getting shot at.

It's like,

I'd be laying there on my cot,

and all of a sudden you'd just

hear the cracks flying by

and RPGs going by, blowing up,

right on the Hescos,

on the other side of where

you're sleeping, you know?

You have to accept that fact,

that you could die

at any second.

This is the place to be.

There's a little secret

about second platoon...

everyone can play

the guitar almost.

You know what

I'm learning, dude?

Pass that up, man.

Came in here with no...

no cover, nothing.

And then we built this place up

into a resort,

and, uh, you know.

Oh, yeah. This is a real resort.

Yeah, resort.

This is Resort Restrepo.

I mean, in summertime,

we put a pool up here.

But in the winter,

we'll make it a ski lodge.

Base people right out of here.

Sergeant Simon was joking

he was going to get some skis

and, uh, ski down, you know,

get the whole...

uh, the Army feeling

into it, you know?

We'll have some bullet holes

in some walls and stuff.

Maybe, you know, a few rounds

come in once in a while.

I'm telling you,

you look out the door,

this place could be sports

heaven if they just...

if they just

stop shooting at us, you know.

This is nine-November,

roger, copy. Fire...

He's in the draw.

Shot two two zero six bullets.

The first thing

you hear when you get ambushed

or you get in a firefight,

or whatever it is,

the first thing you hear is just

a loud crack.

The bullets passing

by your head, the snaps.

You hear that snap

and your first...

exactly how were trained,

the snap is...

the first instinct is to,

you know, get behind something.

That's exactly what you do,

you know, you get cover.

Then you find out,

by sound and distance,

you know,

where is this coming from?

- Someone give me a direction!

- That way.

Seventeen-o-five,

seventeen-o-five.

One of the things

we're all would learn about

is that you may not see it,

but you can hear it.

And that's

our tactical awareness.

We're able to pick up

the different sounds.

We got a general vicinity

of where he's at.

You had to name

your terrain features

you have around you.

You just can't say,

"that green hill over there."

Is it coming from Honcho Hill?

Is it coming from 1705?

Is it coming off

the Spartan Spur?

On Nipple Rock!

Hey, I got eyes on him!

Everybody'd just started

shooting at that direction.

As a team leader,

my second instinct

is to find out

where everyone else is.

I return fire

and then immediately

start checking my guys.

- Hey, is everyone alright?

- Yeah, yeah.

Do they have enough water?

Are they running low on bullets?

Are they shooting

in the right direction?

Everybody good?

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