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Do you know what a bad day means to me? The training.
Nor is melted cheese for sandwich.
You are right.
- Boss! - That's right!
As I can not motivate ...
... I do not know, a dog who eats a bone.
You're getting crazy, man. I do not know how you can do that.
This is a bad day for me!
I am not a soldier,
but my two brothers are.
In the past two years, both have fought in Middle East, 82 Airfield Division.
Isaac was platoon commander in Afghanistan and captain in Iraq.
Joe fought in Iraq with him, as a sniper.
Isaac will be sent today, for the third time in Iraq.
Fort Bragg, Air Force headquarters and Special Operations.
Heavenly Father, Thank you!
You are the God who knows all that is happening right now.
You know everything that's around us,
everything that's going on to every member of our families,
all their fears and feelings. We pray for You to give us strength!
When you take this baby in your arms, either asleep,
either he starts laughing.
It's been ten minutes, as if you know I'm going to go.
But he did not do that before.
He wanted to say goodbye.
That's what's causing you the greatest grip of the heart.
I do not know how to describe that.
Just hope you can see again that dear beast.
Maybe I'm going for the last time to the door,
leaving those whom I love them the most.
And for what ? For a cause!
I always told you that I believe in what they do.
But, damn, you always ask me if I may not return.
God, take care of us how long will we be gone!
We pray in Your name! Amen!
Translation and adaptation: Mihai Dumitraลcu - Klaxxy
FRAGES TO WAR
Even if it is the third departure of Isaac,
I still feel awkward to know it that he goes to battle.
But I do not feel the same for my younger brother, Joe.
He was already in Iraq, in Isaac's unity.
It's funny. Break down a door with your foot,
to enter and clean the building, it's cool. It's fun, what more ...
Due to surplus adrenaline? That's why it's funny?
Do you understand what I'm saying? It's like a life ...
Even on instruction, or real, when you break that door with your foot,
is something special. It's great !
You have to have the power.
You have to have a shepherd dog to defend your sheep wolf.
Sheep are innocent, you only know that.
Shepherd dogs, they make order in chaos. You have to put order in chaos
if you want to have it a free and organized life.
Imagine! You get into a house full of fools.
From top to bottom.
You have to see and do that.
The discussion with Joe made me realize
how much has changed in the past two years,
and how close it has become to Isaac.
For the first time I began to feel the distance between me and my brothers.
Why did you turn on your camcorder?
Hello, Thad!
Here we are all five Rademacher brothers.
Isaac, Claus,
Thad, Joe and I, Jake.
I am the greatest brother, Joe is the smallest.
Following us came the two sisters,
Hannah and Jane.
I grew up in Decatur, Illinois.
Our childhood was an ordinary one. Childhood games...
Do not pull my pants!
Scouts, football games, family vacations.
I think that means "American life".
Growing, inevitably some from the affairs of my parents came back to me.
I'm looking forward to seeing the youngest,
and soon I got into the role.
But as the boys became men, things have changed.
Everybody chose a different way.
Isaac graduated first in class in the year 2000, Military Tactics at West Point.
There he met her and married with his wife, Jenny.
Joe followed Isaac on the way to the military.
He joined the army in 2003.
He had a rare chance to fight along with his brother
at his first posting.
He subsequently graduated from the Scouting School
being head of the promotion of the School of Snipers in 2004.
Become a captain, Isaac is leaving now as a volunteer for the third time in Iraq,
where he will work as an operations officer
In an elite group, a remote research company.
He is !
Dad, do not fuck me anymore! Thank you, Isaac!
You and Isaac have become, I think, group leaders.
You, because you were the greatest,
and sometimes you were the one who dominated,
Sometimes he dominates. It was up to you what you did then
and how you play together.
Go ahead, son!
Here it behaves beautifully, he knows it's filmed.
I think both boys were interested in military life,
at least as an idea.
Anyway, Jacob could not go to West Point,
but his younger brother, Isaac,
attached to this idea.
After insistence, he managed to go at the West Point Military Academy.
You were the most analytical of you,
and you started to analyze personality changes
and their motivations, caused by the way they left.
Take some of the construction games and with the other children
he said, "Let's do it!"
There were good times. We were growing up by the five older brothers.
There were no hardnesses, you guys, you never beat me,
nor did you tie me to any tree or something else.
Say, "We can not hurt them, she is the first girl in the world! "
Jacob became the main financier,
and said he would become a senior financier over one year.
I told him: "Maybe something in international finance,
or in the field international affairs? "
But no, he wanted to become an actor.
After that, I had some conversations interesting transatlantic.
Then the great change took place.
I was the one he wanted to go to West Point.
Isaac wanted to become a professional actor.
She won the high school actor prize. He was a good athlete.
I've been in high school yet to go to West Point.
Then I did not go.
I'll send you an SMS when we get there.
Let's go !
Not only did I want to become a soldier, but I did everything for that,
because I always wanted it to go to war, see how it is there.
I did it hard in life,
because nothing came out of me what I was planning when I was 20 years old.
Is very interesting. Roles have reversed.
Isaac took his life more seriously and I started thinking about myself.
Where are you going ? You go to Kuwait.
I would like to know what is happening in Iraq, because I have two brothers in the army there.
Five hours to Kuwait.
These guys have put their lives in the game.
Why did they do that? I have to find out!
It's important. It is of personal interest to do so.
That's why we took off along with a band of pavans,
to find my brothers in war in Iraq.
- Goodbye ! - Goodbye !
- Goodbye ! All the best ! - Thanks a lot !
I'm tired, my head hurts, my eyes are injured due to treatment.
It's almost 11:00. Right now we got to Kuwait.
We have to get to the Hilton Hotel,
to call the Major and tomorrow we will go to Iraq.
- I want to feel the air in Kuwait! - It's hot.
Hi, Mom! I'm Jake.
I'm calling from Kuwait.
Yeah, I'm in Kuwait. I'm Jake. Yes.
Just a little. I have some nausea, I'm a little tired.
I have a few more. Do not throw them, leave them here!
For Climate Change? They're drugs for malaria.
After arriving at the Hilton,
I found out that the insurance policy of my team has been canceled.
Without this insurance
I could lose my team and home workers,
and would remain without medical insurance in a war zone.
So much lost work for that.
I decided I had to move on, at any cost.
Just in the last minute, when the bus arrived,
someone shouted: "Are you insured?"
And he went on, "Now the bad news, cost 50 miserable dinars. "
There is much more than I was afraid of that it could cost.
We're on the bus, we're headed to the airport near Kuwait.
All curtains are drawn, all lights are off.
- I guess there are safety measures. - No, it's just so we can sleep.
So can we sleep?
As I said, there are safety measures. Some are trying to kill us right now.
Here's what I want you to do when you get out of the bus:
Take everything you have, helmet, vest, luggage
and put them in the lower row.
If you go to Baghdad, put them in the row there.
There are four rows there on the left.
When you get out of here will be on your left.
There are luggage containers.
If the luggage does not enter the container, will be put on the pallet.
The luggage will not work on the same plane with you, did we understand?
So if you do not get into the container, do not talk to me, put them on the pallet.
Brother, man! No more force! It's too big.
- Good ! - Good ?
If he does not fall, not lying down, is too big.
- I think if I get this out ... - Sir! ...
If he does not enter neither lying down nor standing, it's too big, you know?
- See this thing lying, right? - Sir, it's too big.
Look a little at this!
She will not come in here. It's too big.
- Good. - It's longer than the container.
Good ! Does anyone have guns or ammunition
in the luggage on the ground?
All right, let's go!
Today our route is: we're going from here to Baghdad,
then we will go to Mosul.
How old are these years flying this thing?
They also flew to Vietnam.
- Seriously ? - That's how it is.
It is the most hopeful plane, known as C-130 - Hercules.
"The horse of burden".
- You were in Vietnam? - Yes.
The army is all I know. I grew up in the army.
The first time I found out that they can learn something
he was in the army.
If you want to get some pictures, Stay beyond those maps.
You should have a great view.
You can shoot out, to look, what do you want ...
When the pilot found out my plan, to film the unity of my brother in Mosul,
invited me to the front, to travel to the cockpit.
The current mission of the C-130 is to fly down,
below the visibility of radars or other weapons,
to download the guys who come here, as your brother is,
and remove it from here.
For this, it was built.
What we do here is more like it with the job done by the airlines.
We're the ones that take the troops in the theater of operations.
After a flight over 12,000 km,
I was expecting Isaac to meet me at the airport.
Jake Rademacher! Glad to meet you, soldier!
- She just asked about you. - Right?
Soon I learned that walking from one side of Mosul to another
it was a bit more difficult than catching a free taxi.
Good ! Work when you have contact!
If we are hit by small caliber weapons and no damage, we continue to roll.
He arranged to go with him in the afternoon in the supply round.
Along the way, if we hit a bomb improvised, but the vehicle is not destroyed,
we have to move on to the base of Courage.
If we have a call for cleaning on a road, we start there. Questions?
Shit!
49 degrees Celsius.
You will love it there in Mosul. It's pretty cute.
Clearly, I would not take a holiday home out there,
but I think I'll visit him again.
Anyway, we're not in Kansas anymore, right?
In this area, if you look on the side of the road,
you will see that some guardrails are destroyed.
So you see the places where Improvised Explosive Devices (DEI)
have been detonated in the past.
- Why is it zigzag? - She likes to throw with stuff.
Grenades and other things. They come on the bridge and throw them away.
If you exit the bridge in the same direction which you have at the entrance,
you reduce your chances of survival,
and you give them the chance to throw a grenade, or something similar, behind you.
I told you Mosul is a beautiful city.
Damn it !
- What's up man ? - How are you ?
- Did you bring them all? - Yes.
You come quickly. Damn it ! I did not know you already came.
- A brotherly hug. - Yes.
Let's go to the air conditioning as soon as possible. What do you say ?
- I say you do it right away. - It's not a joke, is it?
- Taman! - How was it ?
- You do not know how long it took me to get here. - I know. I followed your path.
- You have no idea! But I'm here, and it's cool. - I heard about your troubles.
In fact, for 12 hours I have another insurance.
- That's a good job. - That's how it should be.
Yes.
Put on these glasses! Especially for the miserable conditions here.
You look like a cinema star. May I say you're Brad Pitt.
Shut up !
What would you say if I jumped out of Humvee and we walked down ...
I think it was more interesting for you than it was for me.
Last year, I spent six months in Iraq, with Joe,
so I know what it's like to have a brother next to you when you go to war.
- What do you think that was? - A shot.
- Was that a firearm? - Yeah, it was an AK-47 fire.
This is known as the "Bombarded Palace".
Over the road is the "Palace" our headquarters.
This is bigger, ornate with ...
Isaac did not waste time and he went through all over,
presenting to men and women with whom they work.
He was anxious to show me how life is in Operations Base (BIO) "Courage".
Thank you guys !
On Bio Courage and in the surroundings Mosul has frequent attacks.
The city had become a feud of insurgents.
They used, often, direct pulls
to harass or to try to kill the forces of the coalition.
The "caravan park", as we call it,
the space in which soldiers live, is surrounded, at BIO Courage,
with this tall wall. They call it the "Texan Barrier".
It is made of 23 cm thick concrete and nearly 4 m high.
That hole was made on December 30th.
It was turned back, but it still helps us.
I remember the soldiers they stood here, bleeding.
I remember standing here, kneeling, almost in a fetal position.
It was the real awakening for us, because it happened
a few days after I arrived here to begin our mission.
In fact, we were sent here
to ensure advanced research along the border with Syria.
One of the great problems in Iraq, today, is the influx of foreign fighters, money,
resources that keep insurgents in battle, and ...
He started in Vietnam as LRP (remote patrol).
After leaving Vietnam, I became LRD (Remote Surveillance).
We have the ability to go deep Behind enemy lines,
to perform the recognition or surveillance of enemy operations.
The smugglers have their own roads know and often cross the border.
We often report a lot by Syrian border police officers in the area
are actually part of the Syrian espionage.
All foreign fighters we've got,
coming from Saudi Arabia and Jordan,
come to Qamishli, Syria, from there they reach the Syrian border
and is heading for Iraq.
You can watch them arrive over the mountain peaks there.
My boys must stand by together with me.
I say, "We believe here that the border is crossed.
We think they will do it now, that's why we're here. "
We take people, we put them there
and they must confirm or not, what is happening.
But they do not know the safe locations through which insurgents go?
They just have to confirm: "Yes, there are people crossing the border ".
Confirms whether there is vehicle traffic or pedestrian,
or contests: "No, I've been hiding for three days, and I have not seen anything. "
God!
Updating is being done. "At this point there is no visible activity. "
Being the intelligence officer of this infantry company,
I have to know that when, when boys go on mission,
if I provide false information it may not come back.
If I provide someone with the wrong information and somebody dies because of that,
I'm carrying all the blame. I have to live with this guilt on the soul.
But I did not want it only Isaac's command center
to be the place I find out about missions.
I convinced my brother to do the right thing
to take my next mission from the border with Syria.
Until we had confirmation that you will go on this mission,
I had to...
We started packing and I put Marotta to help.
He will tell you, "You need this, you do not need this, "
to help you get what you need and make sure you have everything you need.
Yes, sir !
- How are you leaving? On 18? - Yes.
You need to take a lot of potable water to you.
- Even now ? - Always.
You say here's hot? Wait until you get there!
Probably tomorrow you'll wear these, in the transport vehicle.
That's what you take over, and you put it on some shorts and shirts,
to dress them after you get there.
- Good. - Relax, walk or do something!
That's the laundry I do not value the colors, right?
No, they really do not care.
What the hell is this?
I was worried about seeing barbed wire out. This mission was important to me.
The platoon I was going to go with had its base at Fort Marez,
about 40 km from Fort Courage.
Isaac wanted to present myself to the soldiers
who were to participate to this recognition mission.
In the morning we crossed the Mosul aboard a Stryker vehicle.
Stryker is not the most comfortable solution for displacement,
and inside heated like an oven. It is important to drink as much water as possible.
Could I pee?
- Are you okay? - They almost do me.
- Hold on! - It hurts !
I think you learned in the army how to increase your bladder.
- Is that right? - Learn to do it where and when.
That's how you get rid of pressure.
- We should get there soon. - Damn it !
I'm letting him go.
You want to pee in your water bottle?
No, I do not want to pee in a damn thing glass. I want to go to the bathroom !
I've been doing over an hour.
- We are close ? - We still have something ...
Big bag, boy!
Go ahead !
Funny is that, since 10 years, it has not increased too much.
- It's about six minutes from here. - That's how it is.
Dude, are you really in trouble? How much can a man look like?
She put it all in the water bottle.
What the hell ? You hurt me!
- This is my helmet, that's my hand. - That's how it works!
Gatorade!
I'm glad we're going today.
Yes, it will be a beautiful experience. You see a lot of things.
Let's hope we get it and fun in this mission.
- Fun ? - Yes.
Not as crazy as to die.
We'll make over 200 km on desolate roads.
- It's a tough road we make. - Yes.
When you give it to the ointment sun protection?
- Before you get in the vehicle, or ... - I never give that to myself.
Really ?
I do not mind, just see ...
I do not think you've seen such a thing before.
Get in the vehicle!
I thought about this. Mom and Dad do not know what I'm doing here.
Dad reads all the crap, but ...
I could tell him everything, but he ...
You know ... he listens, read, but he really does not know anything.
You have to see the shit here with your eyes.
If you hit a DEI,
and are not injured or injured, we continue to go to Higher.
If the vehicle starts to overturn, remember one thing:
you have to grab the tuner, because I can not do it.
What do you mean by "grabbed"? You mean we shoot him in?
Yeah, pull it down, pull it in, pull it over you!
Keep it anyway, only to fall apart,
so that the vehicle, in roll, Do not crush him.
We will all be crowded here, will fly things on all sides.
Do not worry about anything.
Leave your camcorder, anything else, do not think about them.
Just get out quicker from this damn vehicle.
Tuner, sit down in the turret. Do not do it General Patton in battle with Afrika Korps.
You're with a group of two to six guys
who are on their own.
Their only connection to the others is a radio.
I hope five days I will not see you again.
They need to know each other.
They have to be together all the time.
A lot of men would feel frustrated,
because it is needed of a certain type of man
to resist sitting for five days in a hole without notice.
You must have a concern to stay there, in the infernal heat,
looking through a binoculars.
The photo can be one of these concerns.
Hey, Smith, we have to stop for a second.
A vehicle has lost assisted direction and brakes.
Both are on the same hydraulic system, so...
- Who's got the key kit? - Assisted direction?
- Yes. - Yes.
They could be injured if will continue the mission.
Without assisted steering, any boulder that you hit
transmits the shock to the steering wheel and he can break your hands.
Where the hell are we?
You're in the middle a cursed "nowhere," man.
If you want to get your throat out that thou mayest desert it,
now you should do it. We'll be around for a while.
- Good. - We'll stay here until it's dark.
Then we go to make a reconnaissance
of this cursed place.
You feel better if You get that mess out of your face.
I looked after a Lexus Hybrid, or after a Ford Escape,
or something similar, o Toyota,
but here are waiting lists for buy a Lexus or a Toyota Hybrid.
Probably will be replaced of hydrogen cars.
I'm not going to wait a hydrogen machine.
Infiltration of the first team. 2 km from the desert hideaway.
Boys, be careful, okay?
Push that up! When will you return?
Ready, guys? Let's go !
We have a lot of espionage systems.
All in all, from planes to satellites.
Probably some are somewhere on top.
But nothing is more effective than two eyes which observes the key objectives on the ground.
The point is to find the right place and watch it for a few days in a row.
Did you do all the best, Jake?
- Yes. - Stay awake?
Tonight they dig.
They will also take their food.
Interesting!
Jake will probably have, the adventure of his life. Where is the platoon?
He positioned himself there, on the right.
These missions are the stupidity of men.
As a rule, we are on the mission for only five days,
due to extreme environmental conditions.
It is very hot, it is extremely dusty and that ends everyone.
Knowing Jake, I think he'll love it.
He never bothered him, like me.
When I was scouting and we leave for expeditions,
we were filling up with dust.
There are good people there who take care of him,
so I do not worry in what regards him.
Will not forget soon how bad the conditions may be.
He will return by saying:
"We went wherever we should, with whom we should, to see what I wanted,
more precisely to discover heart of the American soldier. "
The Scientology Church is highly valued in Los Angeles?
It's not such a thing for me.
It's really weird
that the rest of the world is interested of these nonsense,
but our lives do not care.
My life has no resemblance with that of Tom Cruise or another.
I have not read too much about him or about these things.
I do not know what's so fascinating. Neither my wife does not know.
I ask, "Why are you reading this bullshit?" He answers, "I do not know!"
You can go to the Research School for two months
and when you get back, your kid he left with another, for what reason.
I went to do the basic training. The day I went to training,
she pulled her with her neighbor.
- I thought it was a joke. "A torpedo left my pregnant wife,
and now that worm is being used by my little hairdresser.
- Did not you take it back? - What use?
It could not be the same as before.
No one, in the neighborhood where I grew up, he was not here,
A lot of those I grew up with I still live there,
Drink beer in the same bars they entered when they turned 21,
I do not want to live like this.
So we stand out in the sun, three more days?
Yes.
Is that what I signed for?
You came to see what does a mission mean here.
We're not here to blow up all kinds of stuff.
We are here to confirm or not what's going on in this area.
This is our little breach, from the border line.
you can easily see where the stripe is interrupted.
The road climbs and enters Syria.
The mission is to check the data and send them to the great ones.
The big ones decide what to do with them.
There were two explosions to the city.
That's where most of it goes of our traffic.
Mom liked the job in advance.
He liked more than he did whatever I do in the army.
Family is all I love.
I enjoyed working, but there are other things I like.
I'm not sure it would be possible now, you always expect to leave.
You leave a year, another stay at home, another gone, and at home ...
So it's pretty confusing.
Now you're a pack of adrenaline, you like the excess of adrenaline,
but you also love the family.
Boys, have you heard gunfire? I just heard ...
Negative, 1-4. I just heard something which could be a mortar explosion.
Meaning! Something passed through the break?
Hey, you saw a vehicle with the headlights on?
I heard you 1-6. Right now we're watching that area.
To what direction was the vehicle going?
Tally 1-3 saw a vehicle on the Syrian side of the strip.
Now he seems to be heading south.
Meaning! From us to where we are, probably about 5-6 km,
but we will be watching them.
I understand !
Hell, I have not seen anything today, nothing at all.
It's Sunday, man, I just told you.
It is the day of the church.
First you think it's terrible.
You are in a sandstorm and you sneak into a plastic bucket.
Everything seems like you, but with time you learn with them.
That's how it works ...
I think anyone can adapt in any medium, is of human nature,
but it's incredible like things which at first you think horrible
you come to use them, then stop thinking of them.
After I joined the army,
I did everything I could, just do not make my needs in the field.
Once I spent a few days. After a while I said, "Damn it!"
Sap a pit of about 30 cm deep.
Put your hands on the back stones and you let him go.
- The shirt ? - Yes, something like that.
- You always want to learn something. - Is that what you are doing?
Yes. You need some power to keep you, not to fall into the pit.
After a while it becomes natural. I hope you finish fast, it takes me a long time.
See ? That's why you want to keep going. They're taking pictures around here.
There is no intimacy.
God, I raised $ 1,877.
With bonuses and more?
No, that's just the base.
The basic balance? Not bad !
- But it's not good either. - Not bad !
It's like a purgatory.
- Not bad... - It's not bad, but it's definitely not good.
But it's still not so bad.
Yeah, well, on the one hand do not worry about clothing,
because you wear the same clothes daily.
Not bad.
But if you do this for money, you must miss a dagger.
You can not do that for money. You can not.
Then how do you do it?
I'm trying to figure out why I'm doing it
because I could rejoin or I could leave the army,
that's why I try to figure it out why do I do this?
It's funny when you get home,
returning after a year of mission,
to go to the Mall and see all those fat ones
filling his mouth with hotdogs.
I'm happy to see that. This is killing the nitrates in the food,
that's what they want. We fight for them to do what they want, and that's what she pleases us.
My niece, actually both nieces,
they complete their education, are preparing to make their way in life.
That's why I'm here,
that they can continue their lives.
Some of my comrades have children, and many others have children,
and we are here for them.
We do our job for them.
But the price could not be your life?
Yes, it could be.
That's why I'm here. I'd give my life to America anytime.
I would not think twice.
Okay, put it safe!
These guys here, I'm starting to understand them, I approach them all my life.
Having spent so much time here, together with them,
you come to know them, becoming almost like brothers.
There is something special, you have a new family.
Since I was little I tried to do everything my dad be proud of me.
It was hard to see if I did or did not.
As a kid, we are always in trouble.
- Now do you think your dad is proud of you? - Now yes.
We're going all our life trying to get them done our fathers are proud of us, right?
Yes, we do. Surely we do.
My dad asked me a question once: "Are you ready to go to the army?"
I said, "I do not know. I do not know if I can do it. "
He replied, "People with whom you will take your life to the army
are better than those with whom you meet in 90% of your life,
in any other place in this world. "
There are different people. Come with them through all kinds of happenings,
my friends here are closer to me than any other friends so far.
Telling you why they do it, make you understand.
It's damn hot.
It's the last day here. Beautiful !
What time will they take us from here?
- At 2:00. - So we have ten hours of state?
- Something like that. - But who's going to count them?
I.
These guys do not look like that to feel too bad.
If it were for me, I would leave right now.
I'm really sorry.
- So, you guys, just stay three days? - Yes.
Good luck!
How do you feel now?
Now I feel great, with all the boys here.
Montgomery landed at 1-6.
Announce Pluto 1 that the mission ends, all teams are drawn
and we're preparing to go back to Marez at the indicated time.
- Happy to be back at the base? - It was a hell road.
- Eight and a half hours. - Baby, I'm home!
I'm going to pee!
They really need us.
Damn it !
You look like a crap!
Yes, but I like that.
I did not know your beard grew.
Damn it !
- You? You said ... - Damn, man, you're really dick.
Isaac was called back in the US for additional instruction.
But he did not want to leave before the soldiers in his company,
and not even before she showed me another operation of his unit.
But in the army the order is order, so he had to leave.
- Take care of yourself ! - Yes. And you !
Beware of trouble!
I always avoid the trouble.
We're going home! All the best !
Have fun !
Boys, do you want snacks or something else?
Today I received the post, so we have chips and more.
I can only see the first 5 minutes of Season 2?
I have seen almost all season 2 on TV,
but only the end of the first episode. I have not been able to see the first two minutes.
This show is impressive!
Is good ?
At home I have a friend who laugh at me because I'm following him.
He says: "That's stupid!
Mature people, I'm stacked to see the O.C. "
It's cool ! Man, you have no idea
how much I like to hear the boys saying, "Yes, we like OCA!"
I'm like a ...
Damn the Scouts and other nonsense!
That's right, I like it!
It does not matter what he thinks is good. He could die there, outside.
Who is the face with purple hair?
This woman is awesome.
It's perfect, because his eyes are black.
That's why she has that mysterious look.
The greatest women in this movie have always been ...
- Anna, - Anna, from the first season.
It's perfect ! And the girl at the bar.
Tolomacule, episode 4!
I put it up there, next to the Thanksgiving episode.
Breakfast is prepared. My mom left early, so it's a lot ...
It's impressive!
What a chance we would have to watch season 2 of O.C. ?
Shooting instruction.
Fisch, MacKay and Lackey wanted to to share with them a pleasure,
so they arranged to go with them at a firing session.
All right, put your arm on your shoulder.
I usually lean a little.
You do not have to do this, you can use this for balancing.
Good. And do they keep it from there?
Yes. Draw three series, just hit the trigger.
How did I do it?
See !
Good enough.
Where are the other bullets?
As a rule, with the raised lifter, the shot hits somewhere down,
if you target from 25 m.
At such a distance, the bullet rises slightly over the target,
due to ballistics, goes up about 150 m, then goes down again.
That's why you've hit below,
like me. No offense !
How did you get shot?
- Not very bad. I wanted to hit here. - Damn it, it's not bad at all.
- But you have to remember ... - Where are the other bullets?
Boys treat you like a brother,
and I train you hard, I tell you a lot of things,
but take care of you and worry about your instruction.
When your life is at stake,
is hard to explain, but it's about your life.
You care for yourself,
but it is more important take care of your friends,
to make sure these people you instruct them to become brothers among themselves
and with you to be successful in the fight.
Sometimes I look at my daughter's photos,
of my wife,
but more often the daughter,
just because I want to be a little bit of her life, but unfortunately I am not.
My daughter does not remind me as well as I want.
Jenny? Hi !
Today I'm going home. I'll get to Fayetteville airport.
We hope to get there at 18:28 local time.
Okay, maybe Joe can come, normal, if you want that too.
See you soon, with you and your baby.
I'm going home, and the only thing which I want to do
is to pick it up and hug her.
It may not leave me, because he does not remember who I am.
I have to get home and to remam me with my own daughter.
To prove that I love her.
Are you sure they have not appeared yet?
You know Jenny.
Do you want to go back and go back?
- Not. - If you want, we can do that.
I know it very well, that's why I'm surprised that he is not here.
It's surprising.
I'm going a minute out, to check.
- Does Jake feel good there? - Yeah, she has beautiful moments.
That's why I say that Jenny, has traffic problems.
- You spoke with him ? - I talked to Joe.
They all come. I hope he has two cars.
I think it's important that the enrolled in the army have families.
That makes them always remember why do they do what they do,
especially when they give trouble.
- Fighting actions? What are you doing there ? - No no.
Now, when my brother is home, I do not like to know him there,
I do not like to know him out of here.
I understand, but as much as I can understand still does not mind me.
That's because I see things so different from him.
In other words, I want to be there with him.
- Hi darling !... - Hello !...
I missed you !
Hunter, look!
- Hi ! - Father ?
"I do not know who this guy is.
I do not know what this guy is doing. I cant do this. I'm not leaving her arms.
I do not even think. "
Hunter is at his age he does not know much.
He does not know he's gone. I remind him all the time,
but I think the most affected Isaac.
We're going to warm up, Hunter.
He sacrificed everything.
He likes his sunglasses.
Well, it's not like that.
Because he wants to make the world a better place to grow.
Hunter, seriously, I'm cold.
That's why we do it all, for our children.
She knows how important it is.
It's his choice: to serve their homeland in this way.
You can not choose the way in life instead of your children.
You can not choose the circumstances in which they will live.
You just have to think you educated them how well you could for life.
I do not know anything about what he's doing there.
This is Isaac! ... Isaac is like a Superman.
There he handles heavy weapons and a lot of other stuff.
I was not too worried that Isaac might be injured.
You can not explain how it is when you reintegrate into society.
You feel like you do not even belong to them.
Moreover, you feel like it no one understands you.
When I came back from Iraq, I could not go through the supermarket
without being extremely irritated.
I was surrounded by many people
who were crying bills on mobile telephony,
that nothing was wrong, that the food they are not fresh enough and others.
Good people, all of this does not matter!
To cheat with death, or to look how your best friend dies,
or to be frightened of death ...
When all this is over, you will live your life like never before.
I can just look at him and to say how it is,
without words, I can feel better than a lot of other people,
everything he thinks or feels at a certain time.
He wants to feel the ground under his feet, I just know him.
He does not want to stay at a desk.
You can say he wants to be the man which makes them all,
throw a bunker into the air, or break a door with your leg.
This Isaac is the real one.
And I'm like him, not me I do not want to sit at a desk.
I'd like to be the guy in the field, to push the trigger.
It is a totally different world, especially when you are in Iraq with him.
Like a soldier, not a civilian.
These kids were nothing before, but they have been impressed since I am in the army.
Six months have been posted to Iraq, together with me.
He likes me, there he found his place.
I was terrified at one point, I was afraid of his ascension.
I did not want to be killed.
They once hit him. I was in a discussion,
listening to radio calls.
They have specified an identification number. I was sure Joe was not one of them.
It was about Joe. I took four cars with policemen. Come on!
Break down the goddamn door!
You should not let go of emotions, but sometimes you can not avoid that.
Those were the best and the bad ones related to Joe.
I could protect him when he was in trouble.
I'd better keep him close than to know him away from me.
What happened ?
I was on my way. 0-7 also passed,
then I took the passage 8.
... And Bum !!!
I drove further through the sand.
I heard a big blast, man.
I passed, I thought it was a blow strong, was ready to overthrow us.
When they cut me down, the ears they started screaming badly.
With my left ear I could hear nothing.
I controlled myself, to make sure
that I'm not bleeding somewhere, and I did not realize,
trying to see if I was hit, whether or not they are hit.
That's because of the huge excess of adrenaline from that moment.
Maybe I did not realize it why it happens in the face.
I was driving, I was careful what happens in the face,
and I saw something with the tail of the eye.
I had the sunglasses on my eyes.
Suddenly, he appeared to me on the windshield a gray cloud.
Then the windshield broke in two pieces.
If the windshield had not been so thick,
my head would probably have come, in Sergeant Beaudecker's lap.
That's about that distance.
After I got back to the base, I took my helmet off my head.
I saw something on the outside of the helmet.
I looked more closely. The helmet's clothing had a hole.
Looking inside, I saw the helmet has a bulging place.
Only the helmet stopped the skier not to break my head.
- He did his duty. - Yes it is.
Grundy had made him, he could not shoot anyone.
Sometimes there are gunshots, sometimes not.
If someone draws in me, I have to get you out of there.
There are no comments on this. We want to get rid of all.
They do not give us a second chance.
We only give DEI (Devices Improvised Explosives).
They know they can not fight
face to face with us.
It may be a DEI. There is a box in the middle of the street.
We're going to see what it is.
We're still thinking about what It happened this morning.
I was looking at a falling horse.
I know if I had not gone from there immediately,
there is a chance to see and some shots.
I urgently needed to go back
to feel safe again.
How much is up there?
It's down there, where was the explosion.
Is it north or south? Do you know ?
It's part of our work.
We can not say: "Something bad happened this morning,
we get free for the rest of the day. "
We have a lot to do, so we're going further.
I've known Joe for three and a half years.
I think it has changed.
It is more independent,
more brave ...
He was brave before, but do not let it see you, as it does now.
I think that's just the case that he went to Iraq.
I think this changed him a lot.
Joe was afraid to pick up tone to me, or something similar.
Now, whenever he's nervous, starts shouting.
Now things are different than before,
but I think they would have been different anyway, just three years.
Everything changes over time,
but I think he has changed due to the war. And the army.
... until you start to say something,
I remember that you used to to communicate with me.
He expects me to be strong,
and never cry.
Do not show any emotion, as he does.
But I can not, I think it's gonna get him when he sees me crying.
So...
It's pretty hard, because I do I cry for a lot of reasons.
- I do not want to be the only guy here. - Why ?
I'm sensitive. And he was ... But can you know what's next?
He needs to be tougher. And I have to be tough.
I do not always show hardness, so...
But I know that means "right" ...
We're here in Marez. The courses are up there.
We take a Toyota RAV, or a Saab, or Lexus to Dahuk, yes?
We usually go shopping.
We buy things that we could easily buy them
or we could order them through the supply system.
But Dahuk is one of the places
where you can take a walk through the market
being reasonably safe.
As soon as I arrived at Dahuk I was amazed by the difference of the atmosphere.
Precautions had been taken, but fear was smaller here in the north,
as he assured me our Sun Translator, Ali.
In the market are friendly people, they even come to shake hands.
Walking together is something good, not bad.
Yes ?
Just ... I just wanted you to know.
Sometimes not only looks at you, even kisses you. Is OK.
All right ... You know what I meant.
Unfortunately, it's in an area where you can not fly.
That kept Saddam away from the northern area of โโIraq.
First, that has provided the Kurds with protection,
then helped them to create an economy,
an own legal system. Permanent.
Walking through the city, see that you can walk,
and that no one draws in you, nor do they throw explosives.
It is one of the few situations in which we can interact with locals.
In Mosul you can not walk on the street,
to talk to people or something like that.
At Dahuk, thanks our relations with Kurds,
we are allowed to interact with them.
- Where did you learn to speak English? - At school.
You were at school ?
I think it is here one of Iraq's chances.
Here, up, all goes well.
They are Christians and Muslims, they all go on the street together, there are no problems.
It's really interesting.
Good ! Ready?
Happy Birthday !
- Happy Birthday ! - Happy Birthday !
Happy birthday, dear Joe! Happy Birthday, Hunter and Joe!
Joe ...
- Happy Birthday ! - Happy Birthday !
The American soldier is leaving mother, father, children, wife
and comes here in Iraq to help the Iraqi people.
Some say I die for nothing, but it's not right.
They do a great job for the Iraqi people.
I'm with US soldiers for two years.
I know what I'm doing for the Iraqi people.
Terrorists attacked my house, they killed my brother,
they shot another brother, they burned the house.
They did all that bad because I know that I work with the Americans.
Even if they kill them in the future my brother and my father,
I will remain with the soldiers because I believe in them.
Whatever !
Do you want your country to be free?
Yes,
I want freedom for my country.
Look at my company, all of them there are my brothers,
because we work together.
We stay togheter.
Once I lost a brother ...
- And I ! - And you !
Yes.
- Is that crazy? - But not for nothing.
Not for nothing.
For a grand cause.
Visiting Kurdistan, I saw the potential immense that Iraq might have.
Thinking of the loss of Ali's brother,
I remembered a black period in my life.
- Who's here ? - It's Thad.
- Thad Rademacher? - Yes.
The only and inimitable one?
- My brother. - The precursor?
I did not expect Thad to die.
I did not expect anyone to of the family left at home to be hurt.
Here, when someone dies, everyone is affected.
Now I'm in chaos both in the Middle East and at home.
It's pretty damn wrong. Some kind of war on two fronts.
That's how he overcame Napoleon. It is not fair.
Many forms of suffering are associated with this.
First the feeling that I had to protect him.
I did not. I could not help him with drugs
nor of any kind how he played his life.
I could not convince him that everything he was doing was against his own interests.
On the other hand, what made me suffer the most
was the mother's deep sadness.
He has always shown signs of duplicity, even when it was very small.
I remembered a hero from a Greek tragedy,
with a destiny on which he could not change it.
It was really ...
... tragic. In the true sense of the word.
After this,
I was really worried for the rest of the family,
because I was sure some of you will have to fight
with the same things as me.
Why did not we? to get to his heart?
Why could not we help him? What should we do?
It was his decision. His deeds took him where he is now.
A long period of my childhood rebellious
he was just as rebellious as me.
We could talk to each other
about everything I was doing, and ... I do not know...
He rarely looked at me with aversion.
When Thad died,
I did not know what to do next.
I could not do anything else for him. I could not ...
That's how faith sometimes occurs.
Perhaps the Lord has better thoughts for we, because I had no thoughts.
I do not talk to God, I'm talking to Thad.
Looks like he knows a little better what do I want to say,
and he will tell the Lord what he needs.
Claus felt the hard hit, but so did Joe.
Joe had begun to lose his direction.
I think some events I really can change your life.
Changes around you I make you what you are.
And I think that's what's happening here too,
because you never know when you go.
What do you think you need to finish before dying ?
It was a moment very traumatic for me,
to see him without breath on the couch, giving him resuscitation maneuvers.
It was probably the most traumatic moment of my life.
Nothing like that
I did not feel anywhere in Iraq.
I grew up with Thad. I spent a lot of time with him.
It hurts a lot when you lose a close soldier,
but nothing hurts so badly like when you see your brother dying.
- You need a haircut. - I think so.
Reuniting with my family showed me
how much they lost Isaac and Joe when leaving the country.
While I was in Iraq, Claus became a father.
Look at this baby!
I told her to give it to me.
But most worried me Joe's view.
Jacob!
Joe?
What's up ? Can we embrace?
Can we hack?
And it pleases me to see you! I have not seen you for so long.
Little bastard! Come here !
It was not only Thad's death, it was the way to her.
From a certain moment something changed.
The brother is no longer the man with whom you fought, you understand?
Begin to become more a good friend.
But it has always been more than that, because he is a brother.
Well, do not show your muscles, I'm an old man.
You are the youngest.
You are the young army warrior.
Have you become a sergeant?
Official you are not yet a sergeant,
but you will be soon, or ...
Fuck!
When is the ceremony for that? When will they give you ...
- On November 1st. - On November 1st?
- Here ? - Not.
Until then you come back.
Will they give you the grades there?
Yes, there.
Where will you go now?
Somewhere in northern Iraq.
In North ? Did not they tell you exactly where?
I know where I'm going. But it is a city to whom I can not pronounce my name.
I'll go on a five-day mission, one of the groups of Isaac, Connor and myself.
The army has matured a lot through the events they took part in
Isaac and Joe.
Especially on Joe. Joe was just a mucus,
and after three years, behold, is now a man.
Much has matured unless he did anything else
and he would not have been in the army.
For him it was the right experience at the right time,
especially after losing Thad.
To tell you the truth, I think if he had lived,
I would not be here anymore.
I think he changed the course of many lives after he died.
I know his death has changed my life, but I still can not understand.
I always wonder, "Why? Why? Why did this happen, Lord? Why ?
Why did you take it my brother next to me?
He was only 20 years old. why did you get me the best friend in the world?
What did you do that for ?"
It's sad to say that, but I do not think so that the time had come for him to go.
I think he could to help others.
Is that why you went back to battle?
There's something very different.
If everyone were to protect him,
you would only guard yourself, and that would be all ...
But if I take care of all my five soldiers,
and they take care of each of the five, including me, too,
the whole team will take care of each of us,
so you have five guys who keep you.
You have to take care of everyone. That's the only way to survive there.
It's not just your skin. So do not think about your own death.
If death comes, that's ...
Why do you think the experience Does it differ from you?
You say, "You will not understand what the truth is, you're just a civilian out there. "
You were there ... how? Two, three weeks?
- Three and a half. - Three and a half, it does not matter.
I stayed there for seven months, having missions every day.
It's totally different from going in one mission.
I do not know what Joe wants.
Joe asked me to get out and kill some people.
He wants to kill a few people,
then probably sit down at the evening meal.
- What are your tasks? - Let's look for trouble. I'm looking for the bad guys.
I'm waiting for something to happen.
I look forward to the wrong person, wrong time and doing something wrong.
- And when does he appear? - He's dying!
I'm never going to be rough enough for Joe, and so I feel good.
When I was 20, I was tough, I could squeeze him in the ass.
We're practicing the boxing. I'm in the ring with Joe, as tough as he is.
Now I am 30 years old, I am no longer tough, I got a little bit soaked up. That's good.
Good ?
Give it!
I'm back, looking for the war which I had missed on my first trip,
the harsh, ugly face of the war on which my brothers, the soldiers know her so well.
You look especially after people,
by materials for DEI, after everything seems suspicious.
The second move took me in the heart of the sunny triangle,
in the province of Al-Anbar where Joe and Isaac had their first mission in Iraq.
I used every chance.
During the patrol and civilian missions ...
... an DEI at the corner of the intersection there.
The Iraqi soldiers saw him and they called the geniuses
to see him and to defuse him.
2155, found him! Now he's investigating where he comes from.
Play football.
I care about the pilots' problem ...
At night we went the cordon of the raid.
I counted at least three receivers for DEI ...
That's how I started to understand how it is with war-induced adrenaline.
When kneeling, the silhouette is lower.
This personal view of Iraq, on-site,
has created a deep empathy in me for the Iraqi people and his struggle.
When I got back from a mission deployed among civilians,
I heard about a tragedy on the radio.
Damn it ! There is something terrible!
They demanded medical aviation evacuation. It can not be good.
Over the past three months,
The troops in the Habbania camp area were targeted by foreign snipers.
Did you know the snipers hit again?
- Really? Where? - Right on the bridge.
- Really ? - Yes. I heard now on the radio.
- Who did they hit? - Where is this ?
On Bridge.
Damn it !
- The sniper has died, or ...? - Has anyone died?
They called for medical evacuation with the helicopter.
Keep your discretion about it! Did we get it?
I still know him from college.
The boy who was killed now? You know him from college?
Yes. I suggested that he enter the army.
We're still friends from home.
Was he on guard?
Yes. I do not know. Man, I really do not want to talk about it.
Anyway, not now.
I wanted to get out of the house at no. 611
to pay them to those bastards.
Then, you saw ... I did not know where that guy was.
I fired in everything she moved on the other side.
I did not even know if he came from there. I did not know anything.
I just knew one of us he was shot. Nothing else.
Who the hell cares?
Sitting here and talking about this shit,
it's not like there out there, we are not in danger of being killed.
I know that for sure.
Go somewhere, and you do not know absolutely nothing about that place,
it is possible to kill some people.
Now you can just hurry up, and ...
Exit on the ground is like to seek your own death.
Let's wait a day, let's see what's going on where he is.
If it was not in the north and it was in the south,
then stay in that house for nothing.
Now I'm trying to pull a nap,
because tomorrow I have to go out with some snipers.
This is the moment when you start to say, "What the hell was my mind?"
But it's cool to see what snipers do.
Hopefully this will make Joe to keep quiet a little.
Normally, he did it 120 times more than me,
but in the end I can say that I did a day that he always does.
Okay, we'll go to the 636 dam.
It will be the house there.
There was Major Cooper, Mongo and Parson.
It's going to be just new to Hollywood and for the two sergeants.
McCann nicknamed me Hollywood.
I showed you a little earlier.
The first climbs Parson, then climb Mongo,
then we climb on the string, in turn.
He climbs first. I will be the second.
You guys, follow Frank.
I'll go right on the balcony and I'm starting to do my job.
Everyone knows what we're about to do.
You know, Hollywood! I told you, right?
Yeah, I'm going upstairs.
It's a hole through which you have to crawl.
When you crawl over there ...
Do not touch anything when you pass through the hole.
We do not know how solid the walls are.
When Mongo tells me to leave, I have no choice.
I climbed 9 m on the rope ladder, in total darkness.
Here we are a shooter.
- It's good ! - Then take a look.
This is an armored room.
There you can establish Another shooting position.
- I started surveillance. - Hanging?
The bricks are stacked in the hole.
If they sneak around here, I killed him.
If he comes back, we shoot him.
Frank and I sang pretty much,
maybe that's why I did not like him at first.
He's a loner. He has no wife, no children.
I think he's about 30 years old.
He is one of the few people he ...
I take into account every opinion here,
but I would follow him anywhere.
I have great confidence in him.
These people ... Get up daily the same garbage.
What do I find new?
Probably planting a DEI. Are you careful?
Yeah, I'm careful. He's a chick.
It's a stupidity. It's already 9:15 and no one has done anything wrong.
That's the way you can watch the bad guys and that's how you can kill them.
To defeat this, you have to act just like them.
You feel weird when you shoot them.
Especially when you follow how their eyes whiten.
It is quite sinister,
but it's like when you make a tattoo. You make one, and soon you want one.
- Do you want too ? - Yes please !
Give me back M and M, man! Give it to me! Put this ...
- Give me the candy! - Not.
Do not touch my bag with your fingers.
The homeless do not know that we have candies M and M.
You give them more importance than they deserve. They will not send me anymore.
We do not have candies M and M.
One night on mission, I talked to Ashley.
Now they are home on the Christmas holiday.
I needed the address of Melissa, to send him a Christmas present.
What did you send him?
A gem like for gay men. Purchased online.
You know how many Christmas gifts
I bought for girls in the last three years?
No one. We're done with this since October.
I just sent flowers.
- You can not buy flowers for Christmas. - Hell!
You can not give a girl Christmas flowers.
With flowers you can do whatever you want.
You can not buy a girl Christmas flowers.
If you have limited options, yes, you can.
- Frank? - Tolomacule, I just told you!
- It's a good move that you did not. - Well, I did not.
That's how it is.
You bought a bear. A bear is something nice.
And she plays football.
So you could take them some good things.
I would get a game equipment,
with her name written in front and the number of games on the back.
- Now ... that's it! - How much did the bear cost?
More than I would have liked to cost a fucking bear.
I think that under the appearance of these tough, of these seemingly brutal men,
is hiding, in reality, a plush teddy bear.
Probable. May.
Surveillance, call traffic!
Yeah, I'm on stage.
It's a small Ford here.
You have three cars parked on that side ...
It's weird, because, if a sniper kills someone,
and the others, who did not shoot anyone, want to kill someone.
That's because you can not be one real sniper until you kill somebody.
I want to kill one after I did it I want to kill another one.
In a way, you feel stupid.
Do not feel bad about someone, is not something that happens every day,
do not always eliminate someone, you do not shoot anyone on a daily basis.
There was a target did you find it hard to hit it?
I had a problem with some kids.
They gave the corner of the street.
One of the greatest seemed, from the back, be about 18 years old.
I would say it was the age of bruise.
And he had an AK-47.
Immediately I took my gun.
When they returned, one of the youngest had an AK-47.
I said, "Bitch,
They gave a gun to a kid to bring it back. "
There are people down there.
I do not see any one wearing a gun.
There are so many kids walking around here!
Precision fire, pal! Precision!
I started to push the trigger
and, at last, Lacker said, "This toy is that toy!"
I checked quickly once more, and it was a toy.
I saw a guy down at the mosque. He had an AK-47.
His comrade dragged him around the corner.
Did you shoot him?
Affirmative!
Which is the strongest your memory in Iraq?
At this point, that child I did not shoot.
You have something to eat for the core night?
Hell, no!
Are you serious?
Stay hungry, man.
Still thinking about coming out, Jake?
Yeah, damn it! Yes.
When does the mission begin?
The boys said: "Here's how fast it happens sometimes.
There's a guy at the corner with an AK-47, confirmed identification ...
... and "Bum !!!"
I mean, it would be interesting to talk to Joe,
and he shall say, "I have about 120 missions, you only one."
And I say, "I have about 15 or 16 missions. I still do not have 120, but anyway ... "
You understand...
Happy Christmas and you!
Next Christmas we will spend it together.
It will not be six years.
In the morning, at dawn, I'm on another mission.
If you want to take off, we have to move.
This time I go with the bosses the Iraqi army.
We move to Jazirah with Marine Corps Advisers.
I'm determined to accumulate as much combat experience as possible
in the five-week state here.
I saw three gun shots in front of me.
Iraqi soldiers are running to gunfire. And I'm running with them.
Meanwhile, we reach enemy positions placed beyond the river.
Sir, I'm on the other side of the river. There are three guys.
On the other bank of the river. Run. There are three guys with weapons.
Our unit runs into the patrol along with Iraqi soldiers,
under the command of Edward Allier, whom I met him this week earlier.
This is the informant's house.
Speak English well. I have a tip.
Do you know what he told me? "There are no militants here, not Wahabi."
Is the same thing.
He was really concerned about the length of our stay here.
I told you we'd see how the "Black Part of the Force" works.
- It's dangerous ! - I know he is. I heard you.
It's dangerous. You took your life in their own hands.
I'm not responsible for anything.
After you said that, I ran after the Iraqi army.
- That's always a good sign. - Yes.
- I'm going in the right direction. - I'm just going against the bullets.
What is also, a positive thing.
I knew it might be a dangerous mission.
Sg Allier and this company of inexperienced Iraqi soldiers
led the assault north of the Euphrates River to Jazirah.
Once upon a time the Baas Party,
now the headquarters of the civil insurgency of the sunny triangle.
As an advanced feature of the operation seven battalions,
the question was not whether they would have trouble, but when.
629005! We're trying to find a road beside the canal. Changed!
Grab that stone!
Do not cut there. Oh God !
Than you look, you better get it too and put something there.
Mustafa, let them take some too. We're moving the hell down slowly.
Very nice !
Than you smoke, you better pick up that mess.
Jesus! Let's get it, guys!
- I succeeded ! - I succeeded ! This is !
The curve on the road is here. Here we are now.
Your GPS is not even turned on. That's great!
The guy did not even look at the map. She just barely opened her GPS.
And she tells me I do not know where we are.
I tried to guide him to that cursed road.
I said, "Here is the curve off the road."
I showed him the curse of the curve on the map he's looking at.
It's not there.
We are not where we are. Damn it ! We're about 300 m south.
Here we were supposed to be.
And now we're here.
As soon as the Wahabi, or what they might be, terrorists, insurgents,
will begin to appear from there and will take control of the road ...
I'm happy that I had the chance to do this,
because when I first left,
I had a negative impression about the people here.
When I saw the Iraqi soldiers who I trained them, with whom I ate and slept,
bleeding, pulling to my left and right,
doing what my soldiers do as well of marine infantry,
that made me start to see them with other eyes.
This car does not belong no one in this house.
Good ! No one has ever seen it before this car?
I do not want stories, just answer the question, yes or no!
- He has not seen her before. - Good ! Fire the car!
What the hell... ?
Bad guys blow in us.
He wants to know how many are.
Damn it !
I'm in touch right now.
- I see them right now. - Yes, yes, I can see them.
- The soldiers see them right now. - Yes.
Then why do not they shoot in them?
- Know something ? Do not shoot ! - I'm shooting in them. Trag!
All right, all right! Come with me !
- Did they see a truck going? - Yes.
So they saw some guys descending and pulling in them.
- Yes. - Fire the truck!
The Chestnut Base, here is Chestnut Three!
Yes, I confirm, I'm looking at the vehicle right now.
I control if there's anything interesting.
I'm looking at the registration numbers. Numbers have been deleted.
I can not identify the vehicle,
so we give it fire and we move on.
Allier teaches Iraqi soldiers how to interact with locals,
and how to ensure security by their presence in the street.
Those like sg Allier will come back several times at this house.
Before you know,
they will come out and talk to him when they see it.
Develops relationships between people. That's what he's doing.
He wants to work here for a while.
He, half, plays a role here. Trying to make the Iraqis,
especially the lieutenant, to do same thing. They do it, but rarely everything.
Iraqis, especially here, in the Sunni region,
they are terrified of death when they go in the sunni area.
Especially Shiite soldiers. They think that all the Sunnis are evil.
It will take them some time.
I see sg Allier doing this and after a while he realizes:
"And I can do that, and they will also speak to me. "
In passing, say, Chestnut Base:
I asked more people who live in Jazirah
where the Wahabi fighters operate.
They told us that there is no one in Jazirah ...
That there are no problems in Jazirah. "Jazirah good-good."
They suggested that we can go back to America.
So I'm not unpacking my luggage. I'm ready to go with the next plane.
I'm out of the game!
Here are not Wahabi, they are not insurgents, they are not terrorists.
Let's go !
Why do some people die?
Locals do not want to say anything
because here they seem to be the nests of small ghosts.
They threaten civilians.
They say, "If you say something, we will kill you!"
People do not talk, because they do not want to be involved.
If you're involved, you're losing your life.
That's what I'm doing.
Here, that's the deal.
What does a bad day look like for you?
You heard ? Chestnut six have a big catch.
- They did it ? Beautiful ! - Just south of us.
Right next to where you put the GPS, was the weapon hide found by Jones.
They've been on the road yet and found them.
63200! All this time we talked.
Everything was buried there.
Once we started going,
we started to find rice bags and wheat.
They caught our attention.
When we started shooting them, I've seen all sorts of stuff.
See the weapons we found in this big hole?
I do not believe.
I think you brought them with you.
- Right here ! - And!
- Do you have any idea what are they? - About 80 bombs.
- Yes ? - 80!
Should have that we can get here first.
But, unfortunately, he could not translate fast enough, and you've defeated us.
If it were not for him, we would have found all this.
Yes next time! But I heard you burned two cars.
Yes it is.
- Shoot ! - Catch !
- Move! - OK !
Let's go !
Damn it, I tried to take you with me.
What the ?
I asked you to go with me.
No, you asked me to take my whole company.
Somehow, "What would you say to stay at home and will I take your company? "
How did you imagine that ... I could not look after the soldiers
how they go with you without being with them.
- You hate me. - And you know why?
Because you were not there.
- All right, I said! - Are you going to leave the burning fire?
Exactly, sir!
You took some good pictures when they threw that stuff in the air, right?
I took some good pictures, but I got stuck, so ...
He took them from a distance.
You had the chance to take pictures of the shells and all they found there?
- Yeah, I shot all this. - Impressive!
Mr Johnny-Arde-Tot, a journalist,
he got some cool pictures.
Johnny-Arde-Tot took them!
This plate with the registration number!
Yeah, right, you were in phase. That's right, you were careful.
Was. It was in phase.
It was in phase. He was careful.
- Back, take the whole truck ... - Yes it is.
You were on stage. You were watching me.
- She'll remember you. - That's how it is.
We have something that looks like with an honest journalist.
- You're in the patch. - Not really !
- 6-3-9-4 ... - 6-3-9-4 ...
The next day at the center communications, come news
that the Iraqi soldiers of Allier's company,
driven today by the shooter of Kensington Marine Infantry,
were caught in a shootout with insurgents.
Sg Allier took over a support group, and I left with him.
Let's go, guys !
This time there was no need to ask.
We went to Humvee and Allier gave me a place on the ammunition reserve.
You're going with the second Humvee.
The big problem today is that they have not met with such a thing
at such a distance.
- Hey, the boy with the room? - Yes ?
Stay behind me. Put your ass there!
They have antitank (AG) grenade launchers, sir. Should...
- Watch them! - I understand !
They will shoot in us as soon as we get there.
From those houses I just left
and from the hole there ...
They were in the ruins there, but they only sparked the dust.
They did not hit anyone.
Good ! Mushtaq, get into the frame!
We take a picture of Mushtaq. That's it!
- Now it's good. - Mushtaq, Sharif!
Hello ! Hello !
- Ali! - Ali!
Okay, now attention to the bad guys! Take a look at the Wahabi!
- There is no Wahabi anymore! - Look after the Wahabi!
Now drive!
We were going to go a long way back to the base,
so I decided to go in front of the column to catch a Humvee.
Fuck !
I think it was a DEI.
- What the ? - I think it was a DEI.
Oh God !
The medical evacuation is 110, picked up dead or injured by a DEI!
He needs to breathe.
In the patrol today, when I fell into ambush,
all soldiers of the 2nd Company they behaved like professionals.
You have shown discipline when you answered with fire.
You did not blow up.
You fired into terrorists.
I expect you all ... If I fall hurt or killed,
I expect you to fight,
and do not show emotions. Continue the fight and keep your temper.
I was proud to look at you in those moments.
It's something that moves you ...
A brother keeps enough time for others brothers to try to make a movie
to understand what they are doing, to understand...
... their sacrifice, their dedication ...
Something that is above them.
What happened ?
Some reasons I left are strictly personal.
I wanted to see if I did I can do what they do.
That's why I wanted to be a soldier ever since I was a kid.
Now I was able to see.
I have nothing to hold there.
That's why they say you're sacrificing yourself.
I do not have a family, just like you do.
- Ready? - Ready!
Welcome to Vulpile Company, Division 51 Infantry, Remote Research.
Order change ceremony at Battalion 519 - Military Information.
We are honored to have come at today's ceremony,
where you will witness the formal ceremony symbolic order transfer
from cpt Thomas M. Hough at cpt Isaac J. Rademacher.
In the depths of my heart I did not want to leave the army.
They belong to them.
So ...
That's what I do.
I do not do it for money, or just for the sake of a career,
but because I feel that I'm calling for that.
If you want, it is my call to duty.
That's exactly what I am.
What did he say?
Puppy! Come on!
Before, when we were just two,
he only said: "Mom, Mom!"
Now, about half the time, I just hear: "Dad!"
It's okay.
Hunter and how? Hunter Rademacher?
I think when he leaves, for it will be very hard to understand
why her father left.
It will be my duty to explain how well can I
that she did not leave because she does not love her.
She left because she had to what he has to do, and ...
That he loves her, and he will always come back to her ...
Raise your right hand and repeats after me:
- I - your name ... - I, Joseph Edward Rademacher ...
As you all know, he is my younger brother.
Right today I took over the company's order of remote research.
Now he re-enrolled. So today it is a very big day for our family.
Everyone asks me how I feel I know my younger brother goes this way.
I always answer the same thing.
First, that Joe has strong shoulders, I do not worry about him.
Two, that's in the best battalion of the United States Army.
I think that... I know, I'm biased ...
I think it will be an example for many of the young soldiers there.
So I gave her a helping hand to re-enlist.
I do not think things will be so difficult as the last time,
because he knows what he has to do.
He's there with all his friends, and ...
I do not think it will change too much, even if I'm away from him ...
Last time, however, it happened.
But eventually it was good.
I've been depressed for a long time ...
He saw it too. He said to me: "I'm here, what's the trouble?"
"I do not know !"
Now I'm happy again.
Then he leaves.
Sniper, let's go!
I'm not sorry he's leaving. He can not do anything about it.
He has to go. So...
I do not know if I won right to sit at the same table with Joe.
But I know I walked 2 km in my brothers' boots,
and now I understand them better on each of them.
I know we all miss our brothers.
But maybe, if we understand them better, they will never leave us again.
Dedicated to his memory Thadeus Michael Rademacher
Thank you for over 1.5 million of American soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
and the families who supported him!
Translation and adaptation: Mihai Dumitraลcu - Klaxxy
Time does not mean much
When the sun makes your hand,
And all you have is memories.
Life is never what it seems.
Until you look at it in the face
No one else can know.
I do not know how I got here,
I do not know what it is before,
But wherever we go,
We go to a brother,
A brother...
We will be arms brothers.
What's that picture on the wall?
You were so small that you were going beaten.
I was behind you.
Who are these men? in which we have transformed ourselves?
Or are we still the boy?
Are we fighting for them?
I do not know how I got here.
I do not know what it is before,
But wherever we go,
We go to a brother,
A brother...
We will be arms brothers.
Brother,
Brother,
Brother.
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