00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:06 I very much wanted to go to Afghanistan.
00:11 It seemed like a very clear-cut mission that we're
00:15 helping the people of Afghanistan.
00:17 When I enlisted, I knew it would be sent to Iraq.
00:22 And we hadn't found weapons of mass destruction yet.
00:25 But I believed that we'd be helping the Iraqi people.
00:28 [GUNFIRE]
00:30 Day to day, it was driving in circles,
00:33 hoping a bomb didn't go off, knowing a bomb would go off.
00:37 [GUNFIRE]
00:39 [YELLING]
00:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:43 You don't know who's shooting at you.
00:45 And you don't know where they're shooting at you from.
00:47 Mistakes are going to be made.
00:48 And the wrong people are going to get shot and killed.
00:52 In training, we said one thing.
00:54 And we did one thing.
00:55 But when we deployed, there was not that same level of care
00:59 for women, hearts, and minds.
01:02 It was really about survival.
01:04 Our mission didn't make any sense.
01:06 The things that we were doing were pretty much just
01:09 to stay alive.
01:11 The mission was my friends, my soldiers.
01:16 It feels like I'm repeating what a generation ago did
01:20 in Vietnam.
01:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:24 [GUNFIRE]
01:27 (music)
01:29 you
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