Rob O'Neill

Boy, I just kind of lay there and...

one of the, the guy that yelled bad guys, he, he tried to get sort of high ground, a different position.

And he took a, we, we, this happened for an hour, an hour.

We can't return fire.

We don't have any air support.

Um, Tony said, we don't have any, we don't have anything.

There's nothing up there.

I don't know why we didn't get any.

There's nothing.

We're on this fight.

An RPG hits this dude and he blew him up.

His hat flew off and he's laying in these rocks.

And that's, we just lost our first guy.

This is a serious gunfight.

The weirdest things happen in combat.

He rolled over and he sat up.

this Afghan and he's dusting it he's unhurt the RPG Explorer right behind him unhurt his ears are ringing he lost his hat he saw me he yelled the second thing ever in English he went okay USA fuck it right so this went on for an hour it's shit I dropped my backpack 100 meters or whatever way I remember two tracers flew in between my hand and my face jeez and like there's real bullets in there too and I sort of stopped and I started thinking what is this going to feel like

And what happens?

You know, fear's gone.

Like, I'm going to die.