Jake

Over a 48-hour period, we told them, you don't know when it's going to happen, but a huge US force is going to attack the village and they have to

try to prevent us from taking it.

We were going to start the mission at sunset the morning of.

There's a big leaders meeting and everything.

They're going over all the routes and the maps and the tactics.

The story is mainly about my platoon element, which is about 30 to 40 guys, but there were several platoons, other companies, everyone, a big coordinated effort to

attack where their reinforcements are coming from, where their support is, the village and everything.

It was a big mission, all just training still.

And I wasn't a part of this meeting.

I didn't look at any maps or anything.

I was a Bravo team leader.

So a small leadership position.

I had a couple of guys under me and I really just had to worry about my guys.

On foot.

We probably step off around 8 p.m.

and we're supposed to get to the village at like 5 a.m.

It's pretty rough mountainous terrain.

So it's probably, you know, six to eight miles or something, but it's going to take us hours to get there.

So at sunset, we step off, we have night vision goggles, everything, the whole set up rucksacks.

It's thick.