Jake

I can't mess it up for this 10 minute walkabout.

And again, it's rough terrain.

It's slow moving.

I'm leaning this out and I'm just looking at my wrist, holding it in front of me, following the arrow.

And at one point there's a log I got to straddle to step over to stay in kind of our tactical wedge formation.

I've done it probably a dozen times already this night over the last couple of hours.

And I go to kind of push myself and reach for the ground on the other side, except there is no ground on the other side.

And I just start plummeting off of a cliff.

I reached out for what I thought was just a skinny tree, but it was the top of a pretty tall tree and I missed it.

I'm going down now.

It's a few second free fall.

I kind of hit halfway down at like a little rock out crap spin over.

And now I'm just sprawled out on my back on the ground.

I landed my rucksack, my rifle to the side.

My night vision is knocked off.

I knocked the wind out of me.

The whole time it's quiet movement, hand and arm signals.

And I just yell, halt.

Like I don't want anyone to follow me.

The squad leader comes up.