13 Hours in Benghazi - Fox News

you know you hear over the radio we're taking fire we're under fire under fire and you hear the bleeding and their voices you can hear that they need help bad I actually dropped to a knee and then I got it like why the hell did I do that and that's when the rocket hit groan I had a machine gun and he started laying down hey I roll him over there's no response I ripped off his body armor took a pulse gonna feel nothing when you realize they're dead what'd you do I just kind of set a prayer over each both of them I grew up out on the farm rode horses as much as I could and worked with cattle my mom had a book that asked what your career would be or what she wanted to grow up to be and mine was always either a police officer a firefighter or a soldier it was December of 1983 when I actually signed up I wanted to be in the infantry because that's where you get it do all the fun stuff when I got out of the military I started working as a police officer and then after that I picked up a job as chief of police in a small town and then moved on to contract and after that I got to Benghazi and I was going to be there for 60 days that was my first time into Libya I remember and walking through our University and there was an army recruiter and he picked me out of a crowd and he said hey what do you what are you gonna do after college he showed me a ranger video and I asked what hey is that that looks pretty tough is it hard any semantics you gotta be pretty tough to get in it that's what I want to do if a lot of people can't do it I want to do that in 2003 oz medically discharged and out of the blue I got a call from Blackwater they were just starting saying hey oh we're looking for contractors go to Iraq I said yes I got the call to go Olivia was early early 2012 okay third grade let's that's when we lived across the street from the recruiting station how did it just kind of keep going there I chose marine quirks always here they're always the toughest guys so let's try it out for the toughest when I can find got out actually about two months before I got totally bored had to go find work but end up going getting a job of heating and air conditioning it's I did that till I got into contracting the first time that I actually went there to Libya we I wanted to Tripoli that was my first trip when the second time I went back and the third time the fourth time they're all up in Ghazi this attack lasted thirteen hours four people died including our ambassador and it was on 9/11 so I want you to take us back to the beginning for people who don't know this job you know contractors I mean how do you explain it to them private security contractors and for us it was protection us protecting CI case officers overseas doing low-profile protection how did the hierarchy work here well yeah the chief of base he's the main guy who's in charge than he ever now what that was Bob yes and then you have the team lead which would be in charge of us you know our team leader is a staffer he's an employee for the agency and then all this contractors are like if you talk of military wise we're liking the enlisted folks other members of your team are not here obviously Tyrone woods who you called roan there are two other members who remain anonymous right correct Jack and DB correct yes so you were set up to protect the NX which is the CIA the PERT the personnel at the annex yes this is gives us a perspective of the other facility there which was what you guys call the consulate where are we here here's here's the consulate and it hears us here's our compound so pretty close about I three-quarters of a mile as the crow flies about a 90 mile drive if maybe maybe a mile and if you did the whole thing so this side was it well protected who wants to take down one no it looked nice it was a beautiful compound I mean it had it orchards it was had a really nice house a swimming pool they had their own security they they were their own security where else yeah that's ematic security diplomatic superior they didn't have it they didn't have like an American force like a marine detachment they they did it themselves so would you tell me and my bluntness I said you know if you guys get attacks when you guys are gonna tie you know that right and I remember I said if you ever need us you just call us we'll come get you what's your reaction when you hear ambassadors coming to Benghazi on September 10th September 11th of all days you're like thinking you know there's only five guys to protect him and that's a huge compound all right so 9/11 comes pretty routine day sounds like mana yeah what is the day it's a pretty it was actual normal day just doing normal tasks tough task organization stuff you had to move late I guess it was late in the afternoon or later in an early evening wha went out to meet some people for dinner normal night town luck normal there was nothing that looked any different than any other day and there was no whisper that this video was a major problem in Benghazi something did know about video till I got to Germany no idea about any of any video no no sir all right so how do you hear that something's wrong our team leader he actually came across the radio and and I remember I looked at my watch and it was 932 when I got the call first got the call on the radio that said hey you know we need all GRS GRS what is GRS operators global response to have respond staff yep I remember I looked at DB and today something's going on we're gonna do something tonight grab my stuff threw my shoes on and started moving to the movement to our team room what were you myself and Jack were and building D I was just getting undressed getting ready to go to bed oh I make the tea L about half way about right there and I said now what's what's happening and he goes a constant senator attack you can start here in the fire the the actual concentration of fire and some explosions it was a relatively quiet night in Benghazi and by 9:00 o'clock the seven Americans in the compound are settling down for the night you've got the Ambassador in his room writing in his diary you've got Shawn Smith the communications expert online talking with a friend you've got five diplomatic security agents somewhere around 30 or 40 minutes later then stream onto the compound bearing ak-47s chanting in Arabic shooting off their guns almost instantly they've overrun the compound the 17 February militiamen who were supposed to be guarding the compound they just flee now you're ready to go five minutes we're a thumbs up thumbs up ready to go then what happens I went to the TL and I said hey we're ready to go Bob looks right through me and he looks at the team leader and goes you guys need to wait it's just something he's on the phone talking to somebody I assumed they were trying to coordinate us to link up with 17 February which is the low which is a local issue I'd probably been 15 minutes I think and I got out of the car but Bob and the team lead were standing on the front porch and I said hey you know we got a needing to get over there for losing the initiative you know and Bob just looked straight at me and said stand down you need to wait we're starting to get calls from the State Department guys saying we're taking fire we need you guys here we need help well we're talking about in the cars honor as what the hell's going on why are we waiting ambassador Stevens and Shaun Smith are forced to take refuge in a specially protected area the safe haven inside the villa with them is Scott Wicklund a security agent charged with protecting the Ambassador they hide behind a locked gate Wicklund waits in the shadows with a rifle ready to shoot anyone who tries to enter the attackers can't get in but use nearby diesel fuel to set the villa on fire from beginning to when you're ready to go thumbs up you're ready to go out to the time when you actually pull out what's that time friend it's close to 25 to 5 minutes mile up to - Bob I said hey we need to go and got the weight again and I got Mac are told the tail get in the back seat and looked at her own he gave me a thumbs up I gave him a thumbs up and we left and you guys did that pretty much on your own yes we did we were never given the okay to go we got from the final straw for us to go at least that's my opinion and how I felt was were one of the DEA agents said hey they're starting to like the buildings on fire you guys need to get here they use the word stand down a number of people now including the House Intelligence Committee they insist no one was hindered from responding to the situation at the compound the committee's wording was quote there was no stand down order given to American personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening so what do you say to that what would happen it happened on the ground I can talk about is what happened on the ground that night to you to us to myself twice and to tick once it happened that night that happened we were told to wait stay and stand down we were delayed three times you asked for support after I was leaving I said well get us an ISR which is a UAV a drum and get us a Spectre gunship so the drone would have given you eyes on above the ac-130 support protection and firepower exactly I remember I still remember it gives me kind of chills uh says they're lighting the buildings on fire if you guys did not get here we're gonna die Scott Wicklund leads ambassador Stevens and Shawn Smith to a spot in the bathroom inside the safe a the window there is barred an acrid smoke billows into the area he hopes to get them to a nearby bedroom which has a window that can be opened from the inside he says follow me and crawls toward that spot it's dark and smoky but he makes it to the window he opens it and drops out only then does he realize Stevens and Smith haven't followed he goes back in several times but can't find them finally exhausted and choking he climbs to the roof and radios Alec Henderson and Dave Ubben two security agents elsewhere inside the compound his message the Ambassador and Shawn Smith are missing now dig you and Jack and Ron are going to front gate and it's open when I was standing right here and landcruiser came from this direction I thought I was like bad guys stealing the landcruiser so I drew down my weapon then I saw it was des guys are actually driving it and that's when I when I heard a you know we can't find the Ambassador so I started moving towards the front porch getting up on the front porch and that's when they're pulling Sean's body out of the window Shawn Smith John Smith but the Ambassador is still lost the ambassador's lost yeah take you and Tyrone woods rone go into the building one of many times but go in and there's a moment there he was saying hey I can't find my way out I got to say coming what boys coming my voice but he almost made another right into where the I think it was a dining room and it was just totally engulfed in flames I reached out grabbed him and said this way and we just went out and coughed up a couple lungs now tanto you're back here yes DB yes look one of the the Libyan guards in the back go smiston is to come open open the gate open the gate so I came back I opened the gate I looked at the commander I said when you come through this gate you close it you lock it and I move forward and I find later that he didn't do that and we paid for it we paid for it down the road you've been there for a while now and you can't fly the ambassador you've been in multiple times then you hear gunfire from outside the compound and then rocket-propelled grenade Austin a big explosion damn that's huge where's it hid it was over in this area so it's basically on the other side of where we are all trying to mass and collect and get out and another explosion goes off and it's coming from the gate that was left open and I just started returning fire I was inside the safe haven that's when I heard the explosion and the gunfire start cracking off and what you do I moved from here over to here crouched all the way down at the same time a guy with an RPG moved into the view of the gate that's what he was coming up here shooting and he'd run away come up here shoot run away and just as he was shooting I shot him you shot him he went down and then and it was just weird it's like a light switch everything stopped so you guys finally get together you what give up the search for the ambassador the team later annalee he made the cult and we've done everything that we take it been in that house Jack had been a house so many times the State Department guys had now left the compound they were gone they're on their way back to ours Rome tells them make sure you take a left and then in the confusion of the counter-attack they take a right take a right I said to myself well I I can't say what I said to myself on camera but it was damn he knuckleheads now we're holding a piece of property that basically that there's nobody else on the TL he just comes over ready to say everybody get down we're we're getting out of here while they were joking up wrong calls me on that cellphone tells me you need to get back to base and just stay away from the consulate so until the case officer we gotta wrap up this yeah she's trying to say her goodbyes and I'm like we need to go now and like any good case officer she's trying to gather information on what's going on then I just looked at her and says you know what you're in my world now you need to be quiet cuz let me do what I need to do now you have been back on the compound in the annex for a while you said before you you felt like you wanted to be with your team but you also knew you had a job to do there I knew I was the only one I mean we had to UM site security officers they were a great help but from the GRS I was the only one that was there the DES guys come back first the armored car held up but they roll in I could hear when they were leaving they announced it over the radio and then I heard tons of gunfire and knew kind of where they were at just from the direction and then also in their callin that they're coming in so hot coming in hot which means they're coming in fast yeah you have a gate grab the gate open you hear that flop flop sound of the tires just you know they're on run flats but you still hear that sound coming through and both sides in the front windshield windscreen were all shot up you can see the relief on their face once they got in Scott got out he looked like a chimney sweep he was still blocked for almost from head to toe I told him to get inside get some medical help the other guys asked what they could do and I told them to get up on the various buildings and we had one get up on each one of these buildings here and I went back up on this building until our guys come in they knew where they needed to go so each one of them went to their pre pre-positioned or pre-planned positions jack is up on this roof roans up here at on oandb are tano and DB are here TIG is over in this corner initially and I'm over in this corner over here guys are exhausted I mean somebody probably have smoke inhalation and you're preparing maybe for another fight but now we know I just got feeling we're gonna get attacked in my drill and went back up and so it wasn't long after they'd showed up you start hearing tire screeching they're over in this area and we started asking over the radio to the TL if Feb 17 is coming over to assist us and then the response was they're not sure so we immediately assumed that anything that's coming in is coming in bitter bad guys if I ask the status of a Spectre Spectre gunship and an and the Timur came across the radio and said hey you know checking on it and that's the last that's the last time that I got actual answer if one was we're going to get any support or not I was expecting at least some kind of air support even if it was just a flyover by a jet or whatever sometimes it's all it takes it gets the bad guys down ain't no doubt that would have been nice I want to put this back up here just so you can describe what's outside the annex that you're most concerned about just dockyards yep stockyards and this is very a lot of concealment it's a lot a lot of bushes and small trees in this area and this is what we call zombie land basically a small area ultimately where Varon is coming over from right at this intersection they're starting to stage here here in this this whole er this is just a big open parking lot and here's the here's the house that we're seeing people start to go into that little area and they can come into here and it gives them access to our back gate so you're watching this develop in these cars and the people going into this house that you don't really know if it's bad guys or not and what's the engagement you're going to wait till they fire on you wait until we see action from them that deed that specifies them being attacking us or going to attack us on my I mean I'm not going to wait to get hit before I hit back we start seeing movement coming from this direction through the night-vision goggles the caveat here is this house had kids in there that would actually come and pester us every once while you still won't open fire you didn't want to I don't want to shoot somebody that doesn't have it coming to them and it's definitely I want to shoot a child they were starting to just start move up on us and I remember a DB says hey I got I got movement are you blazing them oh yeah I've got my I've got my laser and I am lazing target saying guys I'm I'm picking out targets people I see and I've got a radio with with us and take I said you've seen what I'm seeing cuz yeah I got your laser how could they see you know not only with night vision at this point when they're moving up I mean in my mind they're getting ready to being we're gonna engage and we're just gonna let him get as close as possible and then take him out the first thing they fired was a RPG and it went flying over the compound came over our our myself and DB's deep his head I was bringing a water over 2 to 2 oz I got bout right here about the corner of the gym when a gelatine ax did a huge flash man a homemade um explosive so it goes off it hit right here just just inside even when I just to me it was just okay it's on and we just started started fighting started lighting them up and I was just lazing target shooting laser targets of shooting them the firefight starts what does that look like it's gorgeous man it's awesome it's a green hue and with the lasers dancing back and forth from target to target you see three four sets and lasers just bouncing back and forth taking on targets and you'll see a flash of light which is the enemy shooting at you and here the wine islands going past your head and you're just re-engaging in those spots anybody take a hit yeah we two grew up on this in this and they were trying to shoot out the lights and secondary from one of the rounds hit in the wall or one of the lights splattered up into my face and cut me across the top of the bridge of the nose so you push back you obviously take down a lot of people and it stops to me and as I explained it's a I won't we won that game all right good deal that's morale goes up I think all of us could feel it that it still wasn't over it that was just a probe I was just there going to see our defenses and they're gonna be coming back with a bigger force because that's what we would do well there's a big break there that did two hours here to attend a motion at what point do you hear about ambassador Stevens there was a DEA agent up on the building with jaqen Scott what claims day and night he got a phone call and that's how we found out that he was at the at the hospital by 1:00 a.m. local looters and curiosity seekers have entered the consulate grounds and infiltrated the safe haven six apparently good Samaritans come across an unresponsive man they take him to the Benghazi Medical Center or he's worked on for 45 minutes before being declared dead they have Scott Wicklund phone which had been given to ambassador Stevens during the attack calling Wicklund stored numbers someone gets to the american embassy in Tripoli and says a man has been found and he's dead the caller provides a description matching ambassador Chris Stevens there's a car it pulls up and parked right here a guy comes around from the side of the car and he's reaching like he's throwing something and right as he brings his arm back to throw I engage him I move and shoot him two to three times he goes down and whatever he threw landed just short of our back gate and exploded which then engaged again it was the signal the signal and that this was bigger and it was more I was a larger force coming through I mean there was I'd see turn twenty cars and again we just started raising the threat to they appeared and taking him out they're like ducks in a row at a shooting gallery hitting one guy in the head and dropping but it's like bursts of fire but yes it's not there they're kind of spraying I mean do they're just constantly sprayed we are doing controlled bursts Amy shoot game you sure it's not the movies you don't flip it on fully auto and you go after it because you can't hit anything you're aiming a single shot and you're shooting shooting shooting them until they turn tail and run so so far you've taken a K fire you've taken our VG's yeah are you worried that something heavier is coming yeah after the set after the second second yes they're waiting for a third waiting for something bigger you're in that second attack that's when I actually finally got a chance to sit down all you can think of us what was the last conversation that I had with my with my spouse or my kids was a good was it bad what was hers was good you always want to make especially overseas you want to make that last conversation always good when was it it was the night before so I knew I had spoken with them and hey that's it get him out your head it's time for you to back on the job roni just come back up and we'd been sitting up there talking because we both had um young kids grown had extended but he was looking forward to going yeah I was looking house amazed he he wanted to see is getting to see his baby I had twins miok twins Missy telling you every day or and two or three times a day we would Skype and send photos and videos of the twins whenever I was expecting a phone call and didn't get one that's when we start to worry a little bit all right you guys good we always emailed or talked on the phone and he would always call around 3:00 4:00 p.m. our time always and if he didn't I knew ahead of time why he wasn't in be able to call now we'd talk every day whenever time would allow and most often the same time every day if he didn't call me you know at the time he was supposed to call me then you know I would begin to worry that's one of the reasons I'm fighting it's one of the reasons I'm doing what I do not only for the people here for the family back home but primarily you're thinking about the team and that's your profession and they're their family because they're family I mean we're all family now we're all brothers and that's the way it is and I mean so you're thinking of this family here as much as that family there most of the people are staged here in NC I ended up on top of the command center and building C head with Rowan at this point more cars come by what happens then we don't know what they're doing we'd know if they were guys lost or they were still trying to probe us and there's a guy with a cell phone yeah yeah he just walked out so funny and walk back maybe he was getting GPS coordinates with his phone again it's just another thing from magazi it's eerie I want to shoot him but is he just some guy taking a walk weird things are still happening that night we're trying to think that all right morale is up we're out of this or good we fought him off again I was expecting you know more cars it was actually the first cover was quite small but you know I was just honestly I was just happy too happy to see him three of the guy that I worked with before so I recognized them off the baton including Glenn accelerating include Horry yeah maybe NASA connection with roan with Jack and you had worked with the fact Bo and I just done a trip and Tripoli before before Benghazi I just knew bub from contracting okay so they come in they go to building C and you guys are still kind of waiting for what's happened the aircraft that they had wasn't big enough to take us all back so they were going to take the non-shooting personnel and get them out to the airport to the airport we were going to stay there and hold the Alamo um and literally literally literally literally and I think they'd probably been there about an hour me and Ron we're talking about that wondering you know what's taking so long why aren't we getting out of here the Sun was starting to come up but it was you know we better be ready for another attack because this is when it's gonna come it was about that time that Glenn come up on the roof climbed up the ladder and come over and was talking to Ron and um broan had introduced me to bugs I had never worked with him before he says yeah you know bugs a sniper I'm like well hopefully weren't gonna need you but I'm glad to have another shooter up here Glenn bug turned and was walking back towards the front of the building and almost immediately a more to come in and landed on top of the wall right there what I heard it and I didn't know I heard it I basically sounded like when a rocket goes off in this small arms fire started coming from this direction rown I had a machine gun and he stood in a probably like a three-quarter cross position and just started laying down hate raining can't hate down through this Avenue of approach from here I started to engage with him I ran out of my ammo knelt down changed magazines and right as I'm coming up and I start to reengage another mortar hits almost to the center of the building here and that one it knocked me back and that's what hit Rome Roman was standing to my left I got knocked back and as I stood back up I saw him out of corner of my eye and he was in a fetal position in the corner right here I stand up and try to re-engage with my rifle and I bring my hand up and from here down is hanging off at a 90-degree angle your hand is just hanging plumb yeah I just keep trying to bring it up and it won't stay I can't you can't make it work and that's when the second round hit that's when I saw bub go down about right here I wasn't sure if he was hit or if he was just taking cover and then I turned back and again try to engage and get my hand to come up and a third round hits in the same vicinity and at that point I mean I just felt like I got hit by a thousand stunned by a thousand bees just up and down my side and I figure I better get to some cover now in case another one comes and the whole night went quiet after that it tough to talk about yeah yeah just a little good yeah but you know it's what has to be done I mean you're in a fight you got to stay in the fight that's the only thing I could think of his groans down somebody needs to be ticking needs to continue firing and you see this mortar attack happen what what are you doing yeah I'm still I'm over here on Tower three still you know covering this area to me it look like a hit like you're right around here we have no cover for mortar attacks I mean even in the buildings I'm surprised that one didn't collapse another explosion hits right here when I heard another thump that's when I jumped off the tower moved back and got somewhere right around here and that's when the mortar hit and once that mortar hit it just it was pitch black and dead quiet Jack came over and said a man there's no movement and that's when I sprinted to the ladder and then I just kind of skidded on up as fast as I could have jumped over the parapet and that's oh and I saw Dave Ubben off to my left looked like somebody in the center and then a couple other people may be over here but is it still it was a lot of smoke was still up there from from just a debris kind of settling down and so I moved over to Dave I find a tourniquet because Dave's leg was pretty much completely severed off I think it was just barely hanging on by thread and sing with his arm some ligaments yeah so got the tourniquets on him called back on the radio say hey I need to I need help up here you know I need put it out I heard noise so I moved over to where the noise was it was it was that I was trying to get a tourniquet out put on myself and then I saw him while your hand is still flopping yeah so I pulled out the tourniquet and I just trying to fix my arm I just kept grabbing it trying to put it back in place and he's just sitting there kind of going hey check this out and arms let's just think my dude you need to stop getting worse so I got his tourniquet there reached down grabbed his tourniquet threw it on him real quick stood him up he asked me if I could get down or get over the ladder and I'm like yeah I'm gonna have to cuz I knew there was others that were down yeah well you're pretty banged up yeah just a little bit um I got hit in the chest up and down my side got hit in the throat and I'm like yeah I guess I'll have to and so I hooked my top arm around the top rung of the ladder and just climbed over and was concentrating on just thinking you know if I don't if I fall now I'm going to break my neck and die and that's the last thing I want to do so I'm just concentrating on getting my feet on that rung and sure enough I slept and luckily I had my arm and I caught myself and pulled myself back up and got down and then was able to inch my way down the ladder after it got a ASSA and moving I went straight back to Rome he was still in the fetal position I rolled him over there's no response I ripped off his body armor and tried you know got it that off took a pulse couldn't feel nothing got the got the flashlight shining his eyes no little pupil room it's no dilation put my ear to his chest and try to see if his chest was going up and down if our dear heart beat there was nothing so I left left him went over to the other guy so I did pretty much the same exact thing checked him ripped off his body armor and it was there was nothing there when you realize they're dead will you what do you do well and I just kind of set a prayer overreach both of them the quote is God watch over him guide him to where he needs to be take care of his family so after that you know I kind of the dboys the whole time their you know their day just won't get everybody off the roof and I when I was doing the proud it I just ignored him you know it was like gathered up to everybody's weapons that was left you've got to get the bodies off the the roof it's tough the D boys picked the bodies up and dumped them over the side of the roof maybe that's not the right description but they took him they got him off the roof the most expedient manner and by doing that it was just throwing them over the edge of the rough to get them down I just leave that person's decision on you know whether right wrong indifferent but I know that uh it's not something you want to see turned on the news in there it was you know four Americans have been dead and two we're in identified and I'm like you know he hasn't called me I tried texting him I tried calling him you know he had to cry and I just hit my knees and prayed and past experience if I start panicking right away then I just get myself worked up so I just tried to not worry about it and I thought well I'll hear from him in the morning or the next evening there was a ticker on the bottom of whatever news channel it was and it said something to the effect that there was an attack on the annex in Benghazi and my heart dropped and I'm like gosh how am I gonna tell the kids and that was my first reaction let me take you to when the bigger convoy arrives they finally get there it's like 50 cars yeah there's technicals which are the big mounted machine guns me it was me it was a mean convoy remember the first vehicle coming in I had my gun on him and eyes on I'm even right it right at his head and I just reached my hand off the with my off hand I went like this and he reached out right reached out the car ended I can make a big smile and one thing that we've learned on these jobs it you have to know to read people but they're a part of you guys that looked at that convoy and said why where was that yeah where was that before yes me I did like were they where the hell are these guys where were they seven hours ago exactly you get everybody mounted up driving to the airport in this massive convoy but still probably worried about attacks on the way sure you get there and there's another competition between the militia yeah our militia and then whoever militia was controlling the airport and you know we're the bigger militia so we got we got through you have a smaller airplane it's not exactly big for everybody load you guys up or you walk off they're starting to pull me off and I'm like I walked into Benghazi I'm gonna walk out of here and I get up slide to the edge and stand up and there's still blood dripping down my arm and the because it was a private jet there was a flight attendant and her eyes just get as big as saucers plates and she's laying towels down because she's worried about her boss's airplane getting messed up and then they bring in Dave and he was in and out of consciousness throughout the flight and somewhere in between that somebody's clearing their gun their pistol in the leg yeah and the plane and a round goes off and the pilot is I'm not gonna he wasn't going to take off till they could confirm that whether or not the fuselage had been breached but they figured it out it had lodged against one of the seat posts and did penetrate anything Dave Ubben he was bleeding out if there was another delay he probably wouldn't made it because he was down to about as much blood as a person could lose before they died you're taking off in the plane the rest you guys are gonna wait for the next plane yes with the bodies and eventually the body of ambassadors team yes I didn't answer it on the first ring it rang a couple times because I wasn't sure who was gonna be it was gonna be him or if it was going to be some you know representative informing me of what had happened I took a deep breath and I listened and I just said okay and I love you and I probably didn't sleep much that night it was really brave he just said I'm okay everything is okay and I just and click he hung up so it was super quick finally it was about five o'clock in the afternoon a nurse from blunt stole had called her said that he had arrived there so I was just like just like I could breathe I just thank God I don't do it all over again yes definitely I'd be there that's just the way we are I mean you run we run to it we're not running away from it how often do you get back to this 13 hours do you think about it along every day you think about it during the day that you don't I mean I'm reminded of her every time I go to grab something how's your hand yeah cuz I still don't have full use of it never probably never will have full use of it I mean but so it is a reminder but it's it reminds me of the honor of the fighting with guys like taking Tonto and roan and Bob and Jack and Dee be very few times in your life will you get to form a bond like this and most the time it's done in situations that suck and but you know I wouldn't I wouldn't give it up when you see all of the back and forth that has happened over the past roughly two years what do you think about all the political battle can't you can't get it wrapped up and cuz that's where we're not politicians you know we're contracts were soldiers we were Marines Rangers I'm still are you know we'll always be so leave that to the politicians I can't speak for why a politician did this or why politician did that all I can speak for is what we went through that night and what happened if I gave you that 30 minutes back and I gave you some air power would ambassador Stevens and shawnsmith be allowed to death yes to me if without the delay they would still be alive my gut is yes you end on that a bug strongly believe if we left immediately they'd still be alive today I think there's a lot of things could have been different I mean airpower if we had some air support there to sent somebody in the specter in my opinion can see heat signatures and ill what else in the more to assess in worst him said which mean the brown and what would be alone would it have improved our chances oh heck yeah I said to myself as soon as my baby girl says she doesn't want me doing this thing mama stop doing it and she did on my last trip to Liam and she goes daddy I don't want you to go fight bad guys anymore granted I still miss the guys I miss going overseas but every night when I go upstairs I need to kiss my kids goodnight it it all dissipates just like to enjoy being home getting on being the wife just together the kids and it's just peaceful they're fun I'll do again not having my thumb that opposes it's very difficult to pick things up and it's one of those things you don't really think about until you don't have it anymore oh you like the red one okay aim it hold your baby dollar 25 thank you Lord for this food we just thank you that we were here with our friends and just watch over us and keep us safe and God bless system greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends I I think of I think of Tyrone above every time I read that they're still part of the team they're always there they're just they're just somewhere else right now and eventually I guess we're all linked up again someday

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Views: 678,186

Rating: 4.897603 out of 5

Keywords: Kris Paronto, Fox News Channel (TV Network), Benghazi (City/Town/Village), 13 Hours in Benghazi

Id: NhZuuvQ9q7w

Length: 46min 25sec (2785 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 26 2014