 It's an early morning in Kajaki, Afghanistan. A platoon of Marines with 1st Battalion's 6,000,000 regiment are awakened by the sound of mortars impacting their position near the Helmand River. Patrol base, Georgetown. Without time to fully dress, the Marines rush outside to engage the enemy. Everybody throws gear on, runs out. We get our positions established, and squad leaders take control. You guys gotta know where. I'm in the sleeping bag still. So, I was saying, you hear the flare going off, RPG, then fire just started going off. Just to the northwest of us across the Helmand River, they have a ridge line up there, and there's caves in the ridge line that they'll crawl into, and they engage us from there. Most foreign unit in the green zone from the Five White House from Battalion. So, with us here, we lock down the green zone on this side. And then, 30 mic mics hitting, and just got really bad at it real quick. Started going in Winchester, started using ammo. By the time, like, up to a couple hours, we were like, probably had a hundred still left for a 50 count, and that was it. Grenades hitting inside the compound, getting close, real close. I mean, took a casualty, took a couple casualties. You hear about people being in battle tested. Just one test of the voice. We're still taking indirect, we're still taking small arms. We have to get him on the bird as fast as possible. Got to be fast. Then one hell of a day, I mean, you're thinking, yeah, regular patrol, any other day, it didn't happen in that way. I mean, I definitely teach how people, like, everyone's got to be ready from now on. I mean, you never know what's going to happen from now on. We lost one person, injuries. I mean, who knows what's going to happen next. We still got some time left. Another day, man. Another day. Hopefully whoever sees this will actually notice what actually happens. I mean, at the end of the day, we're the ones out here, fighting this fight, and then just breaking heart sometimes.