The Hornet's Nest Page #3

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It's his turn.

And about 12 minutes into it,

I was just dying.

See, my joints

have a limited shelf life now,

Yeah, true.

Carlos's time was up,

You wake up every

morning, facing death,

And ironically, in a war zone,

It was worth the risk to be a father again.

But, I think, deep down, as a father,

I was relieved that Carlos

was headed home,

QZR controls the entire northern part

of our area of operation.

Because they don't know

what they're doing.

They just graduated that madrassa.

They don't know any better.

His abilities to fight in the future

are gonna be extremely degraded.

That's all I got.

I don't think anybody

was necessarily prepared

After almost dying,

A personal thing, on a level that...

you know, I wasn't gonna let

these guys beat me.

I've been through quite a few firefights.

I'm not different from anybody else.

I wanted to get back,

get back in the fight,

We landed at 3:
00

in the morning,

and all of us were tense.

Now, based off the map,

it looked like there was a, a trail

Pretty sure it does not exist at all.

I'm glad we waited till daybreak

to actually move,

Hey, Ramone, take the low trail!

Going through the kalats,

uh, you can tell,

- Hey, Zee?

- What's up?

That sh*t sounds like

it's right in front of us.

Yeah, it does.

We had landed in the hornet's nest.

Stay down.

Stay behind Jim Coper.

This was command and control

for the Taliban,

And they were gonna make us pay.

Hey, we gotta start getting them

in this f***ing kalat.

Can we get the f***ing 60s

up on this f***ing hilltop?

- They're there! I saw 'em moving!

- Just up... up there!

- Fizzo?

- Yeah?

RPG seven!

- RPG seven!

- Oh, sh*t!

In this muddy, friggin' hillside...

we were surrounded.

And I thought,

Go ahead, one-six Romeo.

And a status with the count.

Over.

Six-three-six, stand by.

Three pads, two urgent,

one priority.

Break, break, break, break!

Yankee, Delta,

zero, four, niner, three, eight,

I was sitting there

on this mountainside,

hearing the radio calls come in.

Dammit.

And you knew...

choppers weren't coming.

Telling them, "Hey, the bird's coming,

the bird's coming,

The person saying it is getting

tired and under-sure,

Star cluster?

There he is!

- Medevac's inbound?

- Yeah. They're in the valley.

- Hell, yeah!

- Whoo!

You pull in, turn

sideways, and...

Made multiple attempts,

F***! Dammit!

A kick in the balls,

more than anything.

So we had to wait again.

It was a very low moment,

You were on your own.

It went through everybody's mind

that, you know...

You don't know who you are,

They're going to die,

and...

Hey, tell 'em,

tell 'em I want a gun run

Three-alpha!

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