Steve Bunting

And then as we're reporting up, they're pretty much calling us, telling us to stop, and we kind of had to back off of that.

So that was the first time we started pushing in and started noticing that things were real.

Started taking fire and then taking RPG blasts, things like that.

You were or your partner?

Our team was.

Your team was.

So we're partnered up.

We had a team of A and ASF that were posthumous as well.

So posthumous are real heavy in the Helmand River Valley, which became a challenge for us as well.

Realizing that we had a partner nation force that had no intentions of killing their people at all.

Right, which became very tricky.

We would try to get them to kind of push forward and do things and they just wouldn't do it.

They're very rebellious, pretty much, you know, putting their foot down and they were going to do what they wanted to do and they wouldn't listen at all, which started kind of raising the hair on the back of our necks.

We're like, this isn't good.

Yeah, no kidding.

It's a very bad situation and it just ended up getting so bad that we ended up kicking them off of our camp.

it got tricky and it got complex right and each time every time we'd leave the wire we'd come back and we'd have to circle up because they started getting sketchier and sketchier man they started getting sketchier and sketchier we started arguing with them on ops and stuff because they wouldn't do what we're asking them to do they would shoot people that didn't need to be shot essentially there's a situation within our area where they ended up shooting a disabled person and that ended up being kind of the line in the sand

where we're like, hey, dude, you guys are, you're out of control.

You don't listen.

We start rogering up to their Kandak and letting them know, like, hey, you got to get these guys off our camp.