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[dramatic music] male narrator: They are America's elite fighting force. - We have the toughest, strongest warriors on the planet. narrator: They are the U.S. Navy SEALs. - The movies get it wrong. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: These are the true stories of their most dangerous combat operations. [whooshing, explosions] - Taking the easy route is one of the quickest ways to get yourself killed. - Man down! narrator: Told in their own words. - I got my ass behind cover. I almost got hit, but I didn't. - I will never quit, I will never give up. I will go until I die or until I win. narrator: This is "Navy SEALs: Urban Combat." ♪ ♪♪ U.S. Navy SEALs carry out covert missions in more than 100 countries around the world. With their unique training, weapons, and tactics, these secret warriors take on highly classified operations conventional forces cannot, operations that find the SEALs fighting for their lives, in dense urban environments like Ramadi, Iraq. ♪ ♪♪ Here, as the Iraq War rages, SEALs play a pivotal role in the brutal street fighting against Al-Qaeda insurgents. ♪ ♪♪ SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon, which includes the legendary Chris Kyle, made famous by the movie "American Sniper", has been deployed for just over two months. On this mission, the SEALs, operating under the cover of night, have orders to clear an area of insurgents. Their platoon chief is veteran Tony Eafrati. - On the battle map was a big red in the middle of the city that said, you know, "Al-Qaeda battle space." [scoffs] I was like, well, that's where we're going. - It was part of the city that was absolutely not contested and completely held by the insurgents. narrator: Recent attacks on U.S. patrols in the area have left numerous Marines dead and wounded. The SEALs have been ordered to go in and shut the insurgents down. [indistinct shouting and gunshots over radio] ♪ ♪♪ [dramatic music] [dog barking] ♪ ♪♪ By dawn, the SEAL platoon reaches the target area near the Marine attacks. Quickly, the men choose a four-story building. This will be their base of operations. - We look at topographical maps and we just figure out what the best buildings were, and then we'd go clear 'em and seize 'em and then we'd be on top of these roofs and, or, second floor, whatever it was, you know, and trying to own that whole lane. narrator: For sniper Kevin Lacz, the building provides excellent positions to shoot from. - There's a lot of rooms in this building, but it offered a great vantage point in and around the intersection up into the north and to the east. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: While the building appears abandoned, the SEALs take no chances. ♪ ♪♪ Slowly, methodically, they clear every room from bottom to top. - Open door right. - Clear. - When you're in an urban environment where you're gonna assault a target-- a building, a compound, or whatnot, all the SEALs that go in do these things-- we've been training for months and months. And you continuously do this where it's not a orchestrated movement that you do. It's a flow. So, any SEAL could be dropped off in the middle, any platoon in the middle of the building and figure that building out quick. [SEALs shouting] ♪ ♪♪ - Room clear! - Room clear. Stand down. ♪ ♪♪ - We'll set up here. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: The SEALs take sniper positions on the roof and the floor below, scanning for an enemy that's proven a lethal adversary. Insurgents control an estimated 85% of Ramadi, a city of nearly 400,000. A must-win for U.S. forces, because a victory here could help turn the tide of the entire Iraq War. [explosions, clanking] narrator: But it will not be easy. Fighting in the streets of Ramadi, or any city, is possibly the most dangerous form of combat any soldier can face. [soldiers shouting] Every street and alley can contain hidden explosives. Lurking around every corner is the threat of an ambush. - What's uncanny is, is that despite all the training that we do, it--a 12-year-old boy can pop an AK-47 around the corner, spray 30 rounds, and get lucky. When the bullets start flying, the battlefield is remarkably level. narrator: In that 360-degree battle space, the SEALs play a crucial role in the campaign to win back Ramadi. - Everyone knows by now that SEALs have superior snipers, so we started providing sniper support and we just went to the conventional forces, like, how can we help fight? - We teamed up with the Army and the Marines and figured out where the hotbeds were, where they were getting attacked from, and began to do overwatch operations and support operations. - We needed special forces on the ground, because this is not a war like any other war we've seen before. This is not a war against armies. This is guerilla warfare. You don't put divisions of troops to fight these guys. You defeat them with special forces. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Since arriving in Ramadi, Charlie Platoon has been bringing so much pain to the insurgents, the SEALs call themselves the "Punishers." - If you look at the numbers and how many terrorists we killed, that's exactly what we did. We punished the enemy and that's, you know, what they hired us for, and that's what we did on the battlefield. narrator: SEAL Kevin Lacz is one of the new members of the platoon, picking up coveted combat experience and a new name. - He's a new guy, so they all look stupid 'cause they don't know what the hell's going on. And my LPO goes, "Hey, Tony, look at him. "Doesn't he look like that guy Dauber from the show 'Coach' in the '80s?" And I was like... "Frigging right he does, oh, my God," and that's it, it stuck. narrator: Tony Eafrati, at 38, is the platoon's oldest and most experienced operator. - He's your typical Boston, you know, Frogman. Red socks, Pats, Tom Brady. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Now Kevin, Tony, and their fellow SEALs are in the enemy's backyard, just blocks from where the Marines suffered heavy casualties. They are waiting to engage the enemy, and they know they are being watched. - Early on, we realized that all the insurgencies in Al-Qaeda had spotters, so every parts of the city on every entrance point of the city, there were people spotting. - Everyone's gotta be ready to go, 'cause you have to assume that everybody knows you're there and they're gonna attack you. [dramatic music] ♪ ♪♪ [gunshots] [men shouting] narrator: It does not take long for the insurgents to open fire. [gunshots] [indistinct shouting] - It was like heavy, heavy, a lot of-- a lot of heavy gunfire. A lot of just good hard combat. narrator: Insurgents unload a barrage of fire from every direction. The SEAL snipers face a dedicated enemy-- battle-tested veterans willing to die for their cause. [shouting] Quick to exploit any mistake. - Probably 15 meters away, maybe 20, there was a guy, he had a RPK or a PPK, I can't remember what type of machine gun, and he started shooting at me and he had the drop on me 'cause I had my gun looking the other way and I just kinda turned and-- but I got-- I got my ass behind cover. I almost got hit, but I didn't. narrator: The SEALs of Charlie Platoon respond with withering firepower. The Punishers earn their name once again, killing nearly a dozen insurgents while taking no casualties of their own. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: By nightfall, the enemy has been driven off. - Charlie Platoon, fall back to Falcon! The Army's pulling out! narrator: The SEALs receive orders to leave the building. - Copy that. - All right, gents, let's move. narrator: But as they prep to go, one of the bomb specialists with the platoon checks the building exit. - We always had explosive ordnance disposal guys with us and they are part of our platoon. They train with us, they do everything with us. They're our brothers. - Take a look right down there. - Where'd that come from? - I don't know, man, what do you wanna do? - They do a quick scan of our exit, and they notice, whoa, there's a Christmas present right at the front door. narrator: The Christmas present is a massive improvised explosive device, or IED... and it's blocking the building's only exit. - During the firefight, they'd got our heads down enough that they were able to go put it up there real quick. It was a short little jog across the street for them to place it, just enough time for them to run up and put a big projectile explosive right at the front door with a command wire going across the street. - It was one of those buildings that was just one way in, one way out. They knew we were there and they knew that there's only one way in and out of the building. - We need to find a different egress ASAP. Let's move. - Right. - Roger. narrator: Any movement across the threshold could detonate the bomb. The SEALs have to find another way out. - You still have to think, somebody's gonna sit there and watch and blow it up. They're also gonna have guns and try to ambush you too, which is what I would do. [men shouting] ♪ ♪♪ - No other way out. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: No door? No problem. SEAL training emphasizes improvisation. - So, we came up with a few, you know, start shooting [bleep] about it, you know, guys are gonna tie bed sheets together and do, like, a prison break, all kinds of crap. ♪ ♪♪ - Josh, can you get through this? - Oh, hell yeah. - Yeah, let's do it. narrator: Every SEAL platoon assigns an operator extra gear on top of their hundred pound packs. ♪ ♪♪ Among the items brought on each mission is a 20-pound sledgehammer. - It was pretty ingenious that we were gonna sledgehammer, you know, a manhole-sized hole through the wall and go out onto a little rooftop that overlooked a market and then climb down the stairs and get out the north side of the building. [loud hammering] ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Within 20 minutes, SEALs smash a hole in the wall wide enough to get through. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: U.S. Navy SEALs are America's most elite warriors, the tip of the spear, in the global fight against terror. In Ramadi, Iraq, SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon is taking the fight to an Al-Qaeda-backed insurgency. They have penetrated one of the city's most deadly battle zones, where Marines have suffered numerous casualties. The SEALs mission is to disrupt insurgent activity and prevent future attacks. - The urban environment is probably the worst. I mean, that's where you're the most vulnerable, just due to the fact that people can have cover and concealment and shoot at you from any angle. You don't know who's out there. You don't know snipers, where the IEDs are. Any building could be a target, could be shooting at you and you don't know where it's coming from, it echoes. It's hard to figure out where the bullet's coming from. narrator: After battling all day, Charlie Platoon has taken out numerous enemy fighters, but they soon discover insurgents have blocked their only exit with a massive bomb that could detonate at any moment. It's a master stroke in the art of street warfare-- the enemy taking full advantage of the chaotic urban battle space. - We need to find a different egress ASAP. Let's move! narrator: Sniper Kevin Lacz and his teammates quickly improvise another way out. ♪ ♪♪ The men smash through a wall on the second floor to an adjacent roof with a stairway leading to the street. [hammering] ♪ ♪♪ The platoon fans out across the roof. ♪ ♪♪ - We're on night vision, everything looks green and grainy. ♪ ♪♪ [crash] [man yelps] [glass shattering] One of our snipers stepped on what looked like, you know, the rooftop, which was really just a cloth drape overlooking this, like, little bazaar thing. - There was this hole with covered roof like a tarp or something or blanket and he just took the old step... [whistles] Disappeared. - [yelps] narrator: A SEAL plunges through an opening in the roof into a market below. A victim of the unseen dangers all around them. - Man down, man down. - He fell through about, you know, 15, 17 feet onto the concrete and smacked down. Had his helmet on, cracked his gun, landed right on his elbow and he was out, you know, it was like one of those you see him and now you don't see him. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Lacz and several SEALs race down a stairway to street level. [dog barking] ♪ ♪♪ They find a door to the market, but it's bolted shut from the inside. - So I--there was no way for us to actually-- we had sledgehammers, we were trying to get through. You could see him, you know, when you came down to the grated door, it's just we couldn't open up the door. - [softly, urgently] Lloyd, Lloyd, Lloyd. - I'm there and, you know, the other guys are like, "Hey! Wake up!" narrator: The men are dangerously exposed-- vulnerable to fire from the buildings around them. - Lloyd. narrator: But they're also determined never to leave a brother behind. They desperately try to rouse the fallen SEAL without alerting the enemy. - Lloyd. - It's like, "Come on, wake up," and finally he groans. - [groans] - You okay? - [coughing] - Can you move, bud? ♪ ♪♪ - He was able to come to and, you know, crawl on over, stand up, and unlock the door. ♪ ♪♪ - You good? - Yeah. narrator: The SEAL's right shoulder and elbow are badly injured, but he's otherwise okay. Good news to platoon chief Tony Eafrati. - My biggest concern at that point was just seeing how my guy was, and it's a big relief when, you know, he screwed up his shoulder a little bit but he's a pretty tough, ornery character. - Move, boys. narrator: The platoon has rescued their fallen comrade, luckily without drawing insurgent fire. ♪ ♪♪ But they must still get rid of the bomb at the front door. It is critical that it does not fall back into enemy hands. The explosives specialist prepares a charge. It is attached to the huge round. A timer is set. The platoon has just a few minutes to get as far away as possible before the charge goes off. - We were hauling ass to get out of there, 'cause... [laughs] You know, at least put one building in between us and them. The EOD guys coming over comms going, you know, "One mic, one mic," you know, "30 seconds." [explosion] Boom, you know, and you can hear that thing, like, yeah, phew. Glad we weren't around... [laughs] ♪ ♪♪ narrator: The explosion provides the perfect distraction. The SEALs exit enemy-held territory unseen and patrol safely back to base, aware of how close they came to losing their lives. - Oh, it would've been a [bleep]show, we would've got [bleep] up. You know, you would've had your 16-man platoon walking out into, you know, a projectile that's rigged. It would've been a mass casualty, you know, it would've been really bad. We definitely would've lost the entire platoon. ♪ ♪♪ - It would have just killed all of us, destroyed half the building, it was-- it'd be terrible, it's terrible. narrator: But the SEALs may not be so lucky next time. narrator: While there are well over a million active duty members of the U.S. military, there are only 2,500 Navy SEALs. These covert operators are the go-to force protecting America in the new age of terror. [whooshing] In July of 2006, more than a dozen of those SEALs are on the deadly streets of Ramadi. [explosion] ♪ ♪♪ SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon is once again on a mission deep in enemy-held territory. For weeks, the city has been engulfed in brutal warfare, and even with fighting this intense, this operation is especially dangerous because Charlie Platoon is on what is known as a presence patrol. ♪ ♪♪ - A presence patrol is one of the other mission sets that we were doing in Ramadi where we literally just patrol down the road, and the point of the presence patrols was to show the enemy that we weren't afraid to go ahead and patrol in their battle space. narrator: By walking in enemy territory in broad daylight, the SEALs hope to lure the insurgents out of hiding and destroy them in direct combat. To do that, Charlie Platoon has split into a sniper team and a ground force. Kevin Lacz and a team of snipers look for a suitable structure from which they can cover their comrades on the ground. ♪ ♪♪ - There just happened to be a two-story residential building on the corner of two streets, so it gave us some good vantage points to the north, south, east and west. ♪ ♪♪ And so we move into the building. ♪ ♪♪ And we take the rooftop-- the best vantage point. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: The SEALs below walk the street, using themselves as bait. - As crazy as it sounds, they would patrol until they get shot at, and we would hopefully offset the attack or catch the bad guys as they were retreating. ♪ ♪♪ - We know darn well the enemy knew that we were there, and drawing them out was an opportunity for us to engage with the enemy. I mean, those guys had to be killed. narrator: The SEALs are hunting an enemy that does not hesitate to kill innocent civilians. [gunshots] - We would come across, you know, some of these cachets of DVDs where they're sawing the heads off of Iraqi workers who worked on coalition bases, tossing people in the river, putting IEDs in certain areas, you know, that would have some kind of effect on the civilian population, suicide bombers in crowded areas, you know, anything they could do to strike fear in a large population of people. - They were savages. They were brutalizing people, raping them, killing them, doing horrible things to kids. They're savages and they need to be addressed as such. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon includes Lacz, who's still learning the ropes of street warfare. Veteran Tony Eafrati, who at 38 is the oldest member of the platoon, and Chris Kyle, one of the most lethal snipers in U.S. history, and the inspiration for the movie "American Sniper." - He was such a character. He was a wicked good guy, and I really, really liked him a lot and he had a good sense of humor, you know, at some points, he was almost, like, immature, which is not what everybody knows about him, you know, and he's an American hero, and he was a great operator. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Just minutes after the ground force begins its presence patrol, the snipers lose sight of their brothers below. - They started patrolling down the street, and as they're going by, we can kinda not really see them, so we're not offering effective sniper overwatch. narrator: But they can hear what happens next. [heavy gunfire] The ground force is ambushed by a well-armed group of insurgents... [gunshots] [men shouting] Who use their home field knowledge of Ramadi's streets to take the patrol by surprise. - They don't make it too far when they did take contact. They walked into an ambush. [heavy gunfire] They were taking-- it sounded like pretty overwhelming gunfire. [heavy gunfire] narrator: U.S. Navy SEALs are on what is known as a presence patrol in Ramadi. The mission for SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon is to lure insurgents out of hiding using a small ground force as bait. If the enemy takes the bait, the platoon sniper team, including Kevin Lacz, Tony Eafrati, and "American Sniper" Chris Kyle, will decimate them. But the plan goes wrong when... [heavy gunfire] The snipers lose sight of the SEALs below as the men on the ground are ambushed by a well-armed group of insurgents. [heavy gunfire] - Look out! [explosions] [man shouting] [heavy gunfire] narrator: The ground force is now trapped, pinned down by gunfire. [heavy gunfire] [men shouting] Meanwhile, the sniper team is unable to see them from their rooftop position. - I'm looking out to the east, so I know where they're going to be, but I don't have a direct visual to where they're at. - Has anybody got eyes on that contact? narrator: The snipers can hear the fighting... [faint heavy gunfire] But their team is too small to risk leaving their current position without support. - Any ideas? narrator: Lacz remembers he's carrying an American flag tucked behind his chest plate. - Yeah, maybe. At the time, it was kinda like, I'm gonna carry a flag and then maybe one day, I'll either give it to my son or maybe give it to my parents as a present or something like that. narrator: If they can't take the fight to the enemy, maybe they can trick the enemy into coming to them. ♪ ♪♪ - Hell yeah, let's fly that thing. - We just decided to... raise an American flag in the middle of south central Ramadi on our building. - Hey, where's that pole? - So, we were like, let's throw up a flag, so, there we go, out comes the flag, we find a pole that was on the rooftop, and we quick flashed it up. [metal clanking] ♪ ♪♪ Then we raised it Iwo Jima style, you know, and try and deflect a lot of the firefight that was directed towards our present patrol element. narrator: The SEAL snipers gamble the flag will draw the insurgents away from the trapped ground force. [men speaking foreign language] ♪ ♪♪ [man speaking foreign language] - Here we go, here we go. narrator: The ruse works. ♪ ♪♪ One by one, the insurgents turn their AK-47s toward the snipers' position... [heavy gunfire] Unloading a barrage of intense fire. ♪ ♪♪ The snipers duck for cover amid the hail of bullets, a sound all too familiar to these warriors. - The movies get it wrong, like, all the time, you know, bullets don't go "pwee-ooh." They go... [snaps fingers] They crack. They crack right over. [whoosh] That's what you can hear, and if you can hear that, it's a great, great sound, 'cause it ain't hittin' ya. [bullets crackling] [gunshots] narrator: While the insurgents unload their fury on Old Glory, the pinned ground team have an opportunity to exit their positions. - See anything? - All clear. ♪ ♪♪ - Fall back on me! narrator: And begin making it back to base. ♪ ♪♪ - We just Iwo Jima-ed that [bleep]. [soft chuckling] - Yeah, we did. narrator: By nightfall, fire from the insurgents dwindles as they vanish into the dark streets and alleys of Ramadi. Later that night, the SEAL snipers patrol back to base. where Eafrati says despite its success, the flag diversion idea did not go over well with the brass. - I think our troop commander might've chewed my ass or somebody, but that's okay, I've had my ass chewed before. And maybe it was dangerous, and, oh, blah, blah, blah, but you know what? [bleep] them. You know? narrator: But the veteran SEAL believes the five Marines and a Navy corpsman in the iconic Iwo Jima photo would be proud. - Oh, I think they'd love it. Absolutely, you know, that's what we were thinking, Iwo Jima, you know, but, uh, yeah, those guys probably would be pretty happy with us. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Ramadi, Iraq, 2006. The battle-scarred city is the center of a bloody Al-Qaeda-backed insurgency. It's left Iraq on the brink of civil war. [men shouting] [heavy gunfire] narrator: Fierce fighting in the maze of Ramadi's walled streets has left dozens of U.S. Marines and Army soldiers dead. ♪ ♪♪ But thriving in the chaos of the close-quarters battle-- SEAL Team 3's Charlie Platoon. - We got in there, we got into gunfights, and we began to kick the crap out of the enemy. [heavy gunfire, explosions] ♪ ♪♪ narrator: With their elite sniper and assault skills, SEALs play a critical role in assisting conventional forces retake the city, part of a new coalition strategy called "clear and hold." ♪ ♪♪ Once an enemy area is secured or cleared, U.S. forces build a permanent combat post there. - Every place we would take or assault, every area, we would put a combat outpost in. ♪ ♪♪ [machine gunfire] narrator: From these outposts, SEALs and conventional forces launch more operations, deeper and deeper into insurgent territory. [gunfire] - What we did is to help carve out that battle space, push the insurgency, push Al-Qaeda into the middle of the city, and we kept just circling about and getting them closer and closer together. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Charlie Platoon is assigned a clear and hold operation in the south central part of the city, which is enemy-held territory. - You block off an area with, you know, your troops or tanks... ♪ ♪♪ To allow nobody to come in or go out and then you send guys house to house to clear it out. We're looking for, you know, fighters and we're looking for any type of information that can be used for follow on targets. narrator: SEAL snipers keep an eye out from above... ♪ ♪♪ As Kevin Lacz and the other SEALs hunt below. ♪ ♪♪ [knocking] - We knock on the door, we have an Iraqi interpreter that would tell them, "Hey, we're here to search your house," and give them the opportunity to either open the door, or we would forcibly enter with, you know, manual tools, mechanical tools, or explosives. [men speaking foreign language] narrator: The sweep is coming up empty. No sign of insurgents or weapons. ♪ ♪♪ - It's a hot one. Nah, thanks, though. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: But the men of Charlie Platoon are on edge and on high alert. ♪ ♪♪ [gunshot] - [yelps] [bleep]! - Man down! ♪ ♪♪ [radio buzzes] Man down. narrator: Sniper Ryan Job is hit. - Corpsman up, corpsman up, man down, man down! [men speaking indistinctly] [gunshots] narrator: Known among his teammates as Biggles, Job is badly wounded. - He comes down the stairs with his arm around one of the guys, and, you know, his eye had-- it looked like the old cartoons, like a slinky coming out. He had blood all over him, but he's walking. - Let's go, go, go, go. narrator: SEALs lead Job to a waiting vehicle. ♪ ♪♪ He is the first major casualty of this entire deployment for Charlie Platoon. - Let's go, let's go! [engine turns over] - It was like a sucker punch to the throat, and you get that lump in your throat, you can't swallow, and you just don't know what's gonna happen to him. narrator: The SEALs patrol back to base, while conventional forces continue their sweep. - Tony and I were holding rear security. narrator: Perhaps out of concern for Job, the patrol moves quickly, too quickly for Lacz and platoon chief Tony Eafrati. - It got to the point where we were sprinting our asses off just to keep up with the rest of the platoon. At one point, the platoon had taken a turn and we had lost sight of them. - Let's book. - So, it was just me and him. So we're out there by ourselves doing this. narrator: More than a mile away from their base, separated from their platoon... The two are wide open targets... - Let's go. narrator: Vulnerable to an enemy well hidden in Ramadi's dense and crowded urban sprawl. - A guy popped out of a doorway. Got two in the head, right in the little T-box, right there. - Clear. ♪ ♪♪ - When the duress and the situation tends to escalate, I think a lot of team guys find themselves solace with their training, and my job simply was to hold security, shoot, move, and communicate. You know, somebody pops up who's bad, they're gonna get engaged. ♪ ♪♪ - Clear. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Lacz and Eafrati finally make it back to base. They join their fellow SEALs, who are still stunned in the wake of their first serious casualty. - We definitely were ahead of the curve, and we were killing the enemy, and to hear, you know, "Biggles down" was definitely a wake-up call, to say the least. narrator: But the men of Charlie Platoon still have a job to do, and a fallen brother to avenge. - Oh, what's the matter, we got a guy wounded, and we're all supposed to take a week off? No, it doesn't work that way. - We were gonna go back out and get the guys who had shot Biggles. ♪ ♪♪ [men shouting] narrator: In the war-torn city of Ramadi, Iraq, scores of Marines and Army soldiers have been killed or injured by insurgent IEDs and attacks. [explosion] ♪ ♪♪ Now, SEAL Team 3 has just suffered its first serious casualty after weeks of combat. [gunshot] - [yelps] - Man down. [men shouting] - Man down! - Let's go, let's go. narrator: It's a traumatic experience for Kevin Lacz and the Punishers of Charlie Platoon, who so far have felt invincible. - The mood when we get back is pretty somber. Ryan was... he was the personality of the platoon. His energy was unstoppable. His humor was, you know, unflappable. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Not long after returning, Lacz, platoon chief Tony Eafrati, and their fellow SEALs receive good news. Ryan Job has been stabilized. The round that struck him ricocheted off his weapon, before pulverizing the right side of his face. - He didn't get shot in the eye, he got shot in the machine gun, and the machine gun fragged him in the eye, which is still terrible, but, you know, he didn't-- if he'd have got shot in the eye, he probably wouldn't even have lived. narrator: Job will be airlifted to a military hospital in Germany. ♪ ♪♪ For the injured SEAL, the war is over. ♪ ♪♪ But for Lacz and Eafrati, there is still a job to do. - There are insurgents moving in and around that position from which Ryan was shot, meaning we have got bad guys, we know where they're at. narrator: Charlie Platoon decides to return to the battle space. - Oh, what's the matter, we got a guy wounded, we're all supposed to take a week off? No, it doesn't work that way. Even if somebody dies, we still got a job to do. You know, you can't just, oh, run home 'cause one person gets hurt. That's not how it works. - We're gonna go back out and get the guys who had shot Biggles, and I think it spoke quite a bit about the character and the leadership of the enlisted personnel. - Everybody good to go? narrator: With the battle for Ramadi still raging, Charlie Platoon heads directly back into the fight... ♪ ♪♪ Right to the very sector where their comrade, Ryan Job, was shot just hours before. - Breacher up. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: Moving house to house, they hunt the enemy. [loud clang] Their luck had held through weeks of combat, - Clear! - Clear. ♪ ♪♪ - Clear! narrator: Now, tragedy strikes for the second time on the very same day. ♪ ♪♪ [gunshots] [men shouting] - Man down! [gunshots] narrator: Marc Lee, a new guy on his first deployment, is cut down by a burst of machine gun fire from the next building. [glass shattering] Lacz, a medic for the platoon, tries to help Lee. ♪ ♪♪ - Marc was--Marc was gone before he hit the floor. ♪ ♪♪ And it was like taking a sledgehammer to the gut, 'cause there's nothing you can do. I mean, it's the most powerless position you can ever be in. narrator: The SEALs carry Lee to a medevac. He's taken back to base, which he will begin his final journey home. ♪ ♪♪ Then, for the SEALs, it's back to the fight again. - The guys didn't stop. They did what they were trained to do, clear the building. You worry about that later, just clear the building first. - In battle, it never goes the way you're gonna expect, and so, you can't crumple up into a ball. You've gotta persevere. You know, we have this mind-set in the SEAL teams of "never quit." narrator: The SEALs press on, clearing the structure, and hammering the next building with heavy fire, killing the insurgent who fired the fatal shot at Lee. ♪ ♪♪ Their fallen brother avenged and the operation complete, the SEALs return to base to prep for the next mission. There will be dozens more before the platoon returns stateside. ♪ ♪♪ Marc Lee is the first Navy SEAL killed in the Iraq War. - We lived in the same tent, so, played a lot of video games together and laughed and watched a lot of movies together. I got to see a side of Marc that, you know, I'm happy that I was able to, 'cause we got to bitch and gripe and complain and talk about everything under the sun. narrator: Ryan Job eventually recovers, but is left blind in both eyes. Three years after getting shot, he dies during an injury-related operation. The sacrifices of Marc Lee, Ryan Job, and other Navy SEALs in Ramadi are not in vain. ♪ ♪♪ narrator: After months of brutal fighting, the strategy of "clear and hold" pays off, enabling the Army to secure Ramadi and bring relief to the city's traumatized civilians. - We drove the level of violence down very dramatically-- ultimately by some 80 or 85% during the year and a half of the surge. We were able to resume the transition of tasks to retrain, to reequip, to reconstituted Iraqi Army and police units. narrator: U.S. Navy SEALs have proved they're masters of yet another form of warfare-- urban combat. - These are guys that lost their lives, you know, fighting terrorism. That's something they wanted to do. Nobody said, "You have to do this." They did it. - I think they'd be up there going, you're damn right, keep doing, keep being frogman, keep training hard, keep kicking doors in, and keep taking bad guys off the planet. - We honor our brothers-- guys who have died-- we honor their sacrifice and we honor-- we honor them in how we live. ♪ ♪♪ - Clear. - If knocked down, if shot, if injured, I'm gonna keep fighting, I'm gonna keep fighting. I'm gonna keep fighting, I will never quit, I will never give up. I will go until I die or until I win. [intense music] ♪ ♪♪

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Length: 41min 39sec (2499 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 27 2020