Legion of Brothers Page #2

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- General dostum,

who has a fierce reputation

For his treatment

of foreign prisoners.

- He jumps down

off the horse, and--

- Hell, the horse is still

moving, he jumps off.

- Yeah.

- He was like, "hey."

- General dostum agreed

to take my team members and I

Up to his forward command post.

"I can't guarantee

your safety."

He said, "there's some people

That may be upset

that the americans are here."

So we would mount horses

for the first time in combat.

- Mark knows horses.

He knew horses

when he got there.

We didn't.

Mark figured out real quick

That you go up to 400 dudes

on a horse and say,

"hey, somebody

get off their horse

And give it to an american,"

You ain't gonna get

a smooth horse.

- We got to general dostum's

headquarters.

My job at that point

Is to establish

and maintain rapport.

His plan

that he had briefed to us

Was that mazar-e sharif

was the key to the country,

And if we could liberate

mazar-e sharif,

The northern provinces

would be liberated.

If we liberated

the northern provinces,

Then kabul could be liberated.

And from there, herat,

kandahar, jalalabad.

We represented 5th group.

We represented america's

foreign policy--

At the point end, nasty, dirty,

bloody end of that fight--

That we went in

and helped enable

The possibility

of a brighter future

For the people of afghanistan.

- It was my first rodeo.

We got married in April;

he left in October.

He was a medic.

I thought it was safe.

Yeah, he lied to me, guys.

No, he didn't lie to me;

he was a medic.

- Is that what they're called?

- I don't know.

You know what it is.

- Little dust off that.

- A pickle tea.

- A lot of memories,

you know what I mean?

It's like--that you kind of

tamp down and put away.

Not so good,

but that's okay.

- Every one of the husbands

will tell you

That they're gonna die

before us spouses do.

- Suck it up, buttercup.

- Suck it up, will.

- Hey, how about we toast

to everybody who's not here?

- Yeah, there you go.

- 'cause we got chad,

we got pete...

- Pete.

- We got steve.

- Bill.

- Bill, wherever you are.

- Wherever he's at.

- Salud.

- Salud.

- Whoo!

That sh*t's nasty.

- What is this sh*t?

- Hey.

Say hello.

Come on.

It wasn't until you were

forced to retire,

You had to retire.

Then you isolated yourself

from your family

And everybody else.

You internalize everything.

You try to find a new normalcy.

- Off.

Sit, sit, sit.

Psst, sit.

What I found kind of peace with

Is to go out here,

crawl around on jeeps

And, you know, be one again.

Being out here, I mean, listen.

You know, you get to have

no thoughts at all.

Each one of our stories

are almost similar,

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