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Mina and Elijah.
Come on guys, the sun is almost down, Daddy's serious.
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Daddy, daddy.
- I got you. - You found us.
Hey, did you guys hear me calling you?
We're just playing.
Nuh-uh, you made us run away.
- No, I didn't. - Elijah, come on, bud.
Elijah!
All right, come here, bud.
Come on, oh, okay.
Now, look, I know you're upset, okay, but we talked about this, right?
It's a little like football.
I'm the team captain.
We've all been training really hard, now, it's just time, okay?
It's time for us to go play in the big game.
But you've never been to war before.
Oh, well, it's not really a war, buddy.
I'm just going over there to go help some people.
That's it.
Then you don't have to go.
Soldiers only go to wars.
Sometimes, they go for peace, too.
And those guys in my platoon, those are my guys.
You understand?
They're my family, too, and daddy's got to go over there and keep them safe.
You like them better than us.
- Hey, Elijah, no. - I hope you never come back.
Hey, come on bud, Elijah, hey, get back, hey.
Let him go, let him go, let him get it out.
Talk to him in the morning.
It's okay, he'll be okay, he'll be fine.
Yeah, yeah.
These two wanted to say goodbye.
Your humble Knights, ma'am.
Oh, God.
Come on, you take care out there.
We'll watch out for him, don't worry.
Oh, yeah.
You guys got enough DVDs to pass the time out there?
This man will insist all four seasons of The Sopranos.
Dude, it's TV history.
Stay safe out there, Tomas.
I will.
You better.
Battalion mount up, all units board to transport.
I got to go.
Come on, Lupe, I got other people to hug too.
Mom, what?
I won't see you for a year, mijo, I just wanna remember.
Oh, I love you, little brother.
- I love you, Tracie. - Bye, mijo.
- I'm gonna miss you so much. - Yeah.
You'll be back before we know it.
Oh.
Mind your weapon, Guzman.
Sorry, Sergeant B.
Any news on our duty assignment yet, sir?
No, not yet.
It'll be one of the Four R's though, Rebuild, Restore.
- Reuse, Recycle? - That's right.
How does a man do that, sleep in this?
Chen.
Chen could sleep through a nuclear explosion, sir.
1st Cavalry, starting our decent.
Next stop, the great unknown.
How are you feeling?
- Good. You, sir? - Yeah?
I feel ready.
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What, what should I do, sir?
Just tap the horn and put some muscle into it, Riddell.
They'll move, man.
You got to let go of this polite Oregon
hippie driving, man, this is the Middle East.
So we get to the meet, and in walks in this,
this huge dude with like a foot long beard.
He look like, like Hagrid from Harry Potter.
And the Iraqis are like, Lieutenant, this is our Chief of Security,
so Hagrid comes up to me and he's, like,
"Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Chief Fahker."
No.
I swear to God.
I'm, like, "I'm sorry, Chief, Chief Fahker?"
He's like, "Yeah, Chief Monther Fahker."
I cannot shake this man's hand with a straight face.
- Whoa. - Whoa, Riddell.
You did that on purpose, Monther Fahker.
I swear I didn't, Sergeant.
We're still gonna make it to rendezvous point with the crew at this rate.
And how far away are we, Riddell?
Well, sir, I, I believe that we crossed Route Aeros just a few blocks back.
Like, a, a little, little while back.
In other words, you have no idea?
Yeah, I, I have no idea, sir.
Lieutenant, I can tell you where we are.
Oh, no, no, no, I want Specialist Riddell here to figure it out.
- Sir, I. - Fine, I will do it.
The Army in its infinite wisdom has, after all, provided us with these very
excellent, hi-tech, navigational systems.
Sir, I'd like to note a rooftop anomaly, nine o'clock.
Are those, are those goats?
I believe that's the case, sir.
Jassim, why, why would they put goats on their roof?
Where else would one put goats to keep them safe?
Good, good point, Jassim.
Good, good point.
Okay, looks like we are at Routes Fox and Florida, boys.
We got to back this thing up, Riddell.
Oh, wait, back it up?
Don't shit your pants, Riddell.
I'm gonna throw up.
Specialist Wild, do not throw up in my Victor, that's an order.
I'll try, Sergeant B.
Holy shit, yeah, that's a goat's head.
How is this warrior's work?
Babysitting shit suckers.
Well, welcome to Sadr City, Jackson.
Sergeant Hayhurst, advise the convoy, we have a truck approaching from 6:00,
another pep squad for Mookie Al-Sadr.
Again?
Maybe we'll get lucky this time they'll try a drive-by.
Yeah, I doubt it.
All Comanche Reds, this is Red Four, be advised
we've got a pep squad approaching, over.
Muq-tada, Muq-tada, Muq-tada, Muq-tada.
All Comanche Reds, Red One, be civil, over.
Muq-tada, Muq-tada, Muq-tada, Muq-tada.
Down USA, down USA, down USA.
Yeah, I'll give you USA.
Pansy-ass pussies.
Hey, Mookie Al-Sadr.
What's he so pissed off at us for?
Well, did we drop a bomb here at some point or something?
No, the Iraqis made this place all by themselves.
- So why follow that ugly mug? - The family name.
All sector's named after his dad, Grand
Ayatollah Saddam had wasted some years back.
Mookie wants the streets for himself, just wants us out of here.
Yeah, whose gonna do that for him, those guys, the big and bad Sadr Bureau?
I think I want my money back.
Advisory to all units, all outbound First Armored
Division elements must complete loading by 17:45 hours. _
I say again, all outbound First Armored Division elements must complete loading
by 17:45 hours.
Transfer of authority is 18:00.
All incoming patrols report quiet, a
few sporadic demonstrators still angry over
the CPA shuttering Al-Hawza, but nothing like the marchers yesterday,
looks to be finally be calming down on that front.
All right, good.
Once this business of transition is over, let's set meetings with all the local _
leaders and go to the status of our projects, any security issues.
What our men seeing so far?
Main issue in the most depressed areas remains theft.
One of my patrols saw two men on Route Texas
yesterday trying to saw into a live main
to steal a wire for copper.
Well, that's industrious.
Also, we got generators at two local
hospitals failing because people are drilling
into them, trying to siphon fuel.
Brother Randazzo, what do you have?
I'm still concerned with the tone of Friday's sermons.
Not just Al-Sadr, but other mid-level clerics.
Marked up-tick in anti-American sentiment,
more calls to end the occupation.
I'm not surprised, Al-Sadr blames us for all the problems,
takes credit every time the power flicks on.
All we can do is lead by example.
- You think That'll do it, sir? - I do.
Think of it as a drum beat, Brother Denomy.
Every time we do something good here, it's a beat of that drum.
Now, if we keep doing it, that beat is gonna
grow faster and stronger until eventually we
are going to drown out all those negative voices.
I hope people are going to see amazing things from us here.
And in less than one hour, this place is officially ours for the year.
Duties permitting, I'd like everyone present
for the transfer of authority, okay?
Yes, sir.
- All our patrols back? - Comanche Red is still out, sir.
Aguero.
All right, still to come.
- I want candy, just give me. - Oh, okay, okay, wait, wait.
Okay, okay.
All right, I think I got some candy.
Okay, relax.
It's for you, it's for you, he's going in my pocket.
Okay, okay, that's it.
Sir, sir, sir.
Guzman, doc, come here a minute.
What's up?
See what you can do about this.
Jassim, let him know we're gonna help him.
He's a tough kid, guess out here he's got to be, huh?
He is gonna need to see a doctor though.
What these?
It's widely believed here they have X-Ray vision.
- This, the sunglasses? - Yeah.
You want them, ask him if he want, you want them?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, he wants it, he wants it.
Let's see, pull back, huh?
Do you think you could do it, Wild?
- Do what? - Shoot a kid.
If it came to that.
I don't know man, hope I never have to.
No matter what?
You'd let one of them put a bullet in you?
Shut up.
Something's happening.
Sir.
- What? - Tanker crew.
Hey, son of a bitch.
All Comanche Reds, remount.
Come on now, go.
Let's go.
What do you think happened, sir?
I don't know, man.
Something spooked them.
- Sir, everybody's in. - Riddell, go.
Are you nervous?
A little.
Don't be, it's a quick introduction.
Good Palm Sunday.
Good Palm Sunday morning, everyone.
I'm LeAnn Volesky, I'm one of the Family Readiness leaders here on base.
Just a quick announcement, we are
collecting supplies for care packages to be
sent over to Iraq.
I also wanted to introduce Gina Denomy, one of our new Care Team leaders.
Oh, thank you.
Hello, I am Gina,
well, I just really like to say that I very
much look forward to working with all of you.
Oh, and this is Merrick.
Thank you.
Deployments can be hard in ways you don't expect,
always remember that you're not alone.
Family Readiness is family.
There is no rank among us here, flyers in the back have our numbers.
Call us, day or night.
We're here for you.
Thank you, LeAnn, very much.
I'd like to begin with a word of prayer.
Elijah, come on, Elijah.
Go away.
Please.
Get up, Elijah.
So, can we talk?
I'm not hungry.
What if breakfast was waffles?
We could go out.
In fact, we have to go out.
Do you remember what today is?
Doesn't the gang have a mystery to solve?
It's Scooby Doo day!
Okay, hey, but you have to be ready in 10 minutes.
Race you.
I wanna see those teeth brushed.
What the hell?
You should've seen your face, your face. _
You're an asshole, Martin.
What's going on?
That, yo, someone get that thing.
Oh, I'm on it, bro.
Oh, shit, it went in, man.
No, man, no.
I got this, I got this.
Yo, what're you doing, Young?
Get a knife or something.
Hell, take my rifle.
It's all right.
All right, you see the size of that thing?
Martin, I'm gonna kill you.
Come on, soldiers, it's just a baby.
- That's a baby? - It's your new best friend.
Yow, it's just a camel spider, man.
They don't even bite, I wouldn't do you like that.
It's actually a whiptail scorpion.
Yeah, they're harmless.
You put that thing on me, you don't even know what it was?
- I thought it was. - Asshole.
All right, I'm sorry, Holmes.
Yo, what're you doing here, anyway ain't you supposed to be on patrol?
Damn man, I missed the roll-out.
"Saddam's Revenge" got me on the toilet.
Maybe because you ate one of these things.
What the hell is this supposed to be?
Is this chicken?
Damned if I know.
Anybody got any hot sauce or something?
Arsiaga.
Man, if you don't want that, I'll eat it.
You like this shit?
Hey, we're in a war zone, Garza.
Crazy, huh.
Thought you wanted Afghanistan.
Yeah, I did, this is the war I got.
What do you know about it?
War.
You ever even been shot at?
- I have. - I'm not asking you, Specialist.
I'm asking PFC Young.
- That's not what I. - That's not what?
No Staff Sergeant, I have never been shot at.
You ever fired your weapon at a human being?
No Staff Sergeant.
Well, then do me a favor and shut up.
Ain't nothing out there like you think it is, nothing.
You know, ain't no training gonna prepare
you, there's no glory out there, no heroes,
it's just death and rot.
Close eye on our six.
He says you have to let them go, they've quit.
All of them.
Why?
He says a man came over at the last pump
site and told them they'd be killed, uh,
them and their families that anyone working for the Coalition is now
an enemy of Al-Sadr.
Okay, Jassim, ask him.
Hold up, sir, he left something out.
Targets, infidels.
So you've missed that part, Jassim?
He said he and his men are tired of having
targets on their backs with the infidels.
I was trying to be polite.
How about do your job?
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Okay Jassim, tell this man he doesn't have to be afraid and our men our
troops will protect him.
He says, "You Americans say that, but how will you protect us?"
"How will you protect us and our families tonight when you're back safe
behind your base walls?
You can't and we have to live here after you are gone."
What do you wanna do, sir?
Let them go.
Yes, sir.
That's what they said, that they and their families would be killed,
that anyone working for us now was Al-Sadr's enemy, over.
Copy that, Red One.
Swing by Al-Sadr Bureau on your way back, just make sure nothing's brewing, over.
Copy that, Comanche Six, over.
Comanche Six out.
It looks quiet.
All right, Riddell, this is Delta, turn left here.
Al-Sadr Bureau's just up the road.
Sir, should we get some guys together for a game tonight?
Oh God yes please.
Jassim, you interested?
What is this?
- D&D. - What's D-N-D?
- Dungeons & Dragons. - What's Dungeons & Dragons?
You'll see.
Sergeant, AK, 9:00.
Whip us around.
Red One, this is Red Four.
We got a potential hostile with an AK, over.
Just listen to what I'm saying!
- Let me take over, Sergeant. - Please.
Jassim, please translate.
I'm Lieutenant Shane Aguero of the First Cavalry.
Coalition rules prohibit public possession of weapons.
These men must disarm and hand over their rifles, they must do so, now.
Uh, he, he says the weapons are, um, uh, registered and permitted to protect the
Mosque and the Imam.
Who are they affiliated with?
Sadr Bureau, KDP, SCIRI?
SCIRI.
Have your men take custody of the weapons.
All right, come on, let's call this in.
Sergeant, you're with me.
Yup.
Come on, come on, move it.
Lancer Mike, Comanche Red One, I need Comanche Six or Lancer Six, over.
Red One, this is Lancer Six, go ahead, over.
Lancer Six, we have a group of armed men at the Mosque on Delta,
south of the Sadr Bureau, they said that
they're SCIRI, permitted to carry to protect
the Mosque.
We have taken custody of their weapons.
What is your guidance, over?
Is that true?
There is a Coalition rule that allows for armed guards
inside Mosque perimeters.
Enacted after a string of Sunni attacks.
Red One, do you see any evidence of hostile intent, over?
Negative Lancer Six, over.
Sir, the guy was on the street.
Lancer Six, Red Four reports one of the men
was on the street with his weapon, over.
No evidence of hostile intent.
Let's try to keep the peace.
Red One, return the weapons.
Advise the guards a proper adherence to the
rules or we will have to confiscate them
and then return to base, over.
Roger that, Lancer Six, over.
All right, give them back.
Jassim, tell them our mistake but they've got to stick to the rules.
No weapons outside of the Mosque or we will take them.
All right, all Comanche Reds, remount.
This is bullshit.
Staff Sergeant Miltenberger?
They opened up the phones, don't you wanna call home?
I said everything I needed to before I left.
All right then.
From the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 21.
As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,
Jesus sent two disciples saying to them.
Israel?
Baby, sweetie.
I can't believe it's you.
I'm in church, baby.
Untie them and bring them to me.
If anyone ask anything.
Are you okay?
I've been so worried.
Ah, you always worry too much, babe.
They just opened up the phones.
Got Arsiaga here, too.
Hey, Lupe.
Hey listen, um, I don't got a lot of time
but I, I wanted to tell you about this
dream I had last night, it was amazing Lupe.
And I, in it, I, I was already back and we
were all together, just, just hugging and,
and kissing, and it was so real, baby.
I, I woke up hugging my rug-sack.
Lucky Arsiaga wasn't next to me or he would've
woken up to me trying to hump his ass.
I love you so much, baby.
But don't worry, you hear me?
We're gonna be fine.
Sergeant Chen, thought you'd be joining us for D&D after chow?
Never again sir, definitely not.
Come on sir, who'd Sergeant Chen even be?
He could be a bard.
Guys!
Where the hell is everyone?
Whoa, whoa, listen.
Was that.
Comanche Reds, this is Red Four.
We have contact.
Looks like a lone shooter.
Moving to isolate, over.
All Comanche Reds, Red One, halt and move to Red Four's position, over.
Come on, Riddell.
Get us back there.
Come on, go, go.
Anyone see the shooter?
Negative.
Lancer Mike, this is Comanche Red One.
We have received fire.
Route Delta, just south of the Sadr Bureau, over.
Red One, Comanche Six, what type of fire, over?
Comanche Six, unclear, over.
Ambush.
All Comanche Reds, remount.
Get back in your vehicles, over.
My plate caught them, my plate caught them.
Get in, everybody remount.
Comanche Six, this is Red One.
We have renewed contact, over.
Red One, how heavy is the contact, over?
What?
How heavy is your contact, over?
Really damn heavy.
We're in a complex ambush.
Everyone's in.
Go, Riddell.
Come on, go, go.
Oh, man.
- Sir? - Punch us through.
- You sure? - Yes.
Chen, inside now.
Everybody okay?
Yeah.
Oh man, sir, there's no one following.
Shit.
I don't see them either.
Stop the vehicle, Riddell.
Stop, stop, stop.
All Comanche Reds, this is Red One.
Do you copy, over?
All Comanche Reds, come in.
You don't see them?
No, sir.
- Turn us around. - What?
Two of those Victors have no armor, Riddell.
Come on, we got to get back fast.
Anyone got a visual?
Negative, sir.
- What the hell happened here? - Looks like RPG hits.
Red Four, this is Red One.
What the hell is going on, over?
Red Four, come in.
Their antennas must've got shot up.
Riddell, stop here.
Wait for me here.
What?
Wait, sir, where are you going?
Let's go, let's go, floor it.
- Perry, you okay? - Yes, sir.
Punch it.
- Bourquin, what is going on? - Enemy fired two RPGs.
Perry evaded but his engine and windshields got blown out.
Three hit a barricade and got pinned down.
Taylor, punch it again.
Come on, are you kidding me?
Son of a bitch.
Sir, these two Vics are dead light.
We got to get the hell off of this street.
We cannot fit 19 men inside the two Victors.
We need to find shelter.
All right, empty out the equipment from the two Victors.
Z-out the radios.
Roger that, two and three dismount.
Shit.
- We leaving now? - Chen?
Where's he hit?
- I don't know. - Is he okay?
How bad is it?
It's bad, he's not breathing.
Jassim, Jassim.
Do you know CPR?
- Yes. - Start.
Fisk, on the .50 cal, return fire.
Comanche Six, this is Red One.
Fisk.
Comanche Six, this is Red One.
We need QRF support and immediate evac.
We have an urgent surgical, two vehicles down.
I repeat, we need immediate evac, over.
Red One, Comanche Six,
find a secure defensive position and wait for extraction.
We're coming, over.
Be ready to move.
Hey, Red Platoon, we are moving.
Time, now.
Get in the cover of your armored Victors, come on.
Hey, Guzman, look at me.
Hand that stuff off to somebody else.
Chen's been hit.
- What? - Understand?
Go.
Bring it in, let's go.
- Go, go, go, come on, hurry. - Sir.
- How bad is it? - I don't know.
All right, look, we got to move, okay?
Let's go.
Hey!
You.
Cover across.
Sergeant, alley.
Are you sure you're not worried?
There has only been one incident in the entire city in the last year.
We're not even bringing the heavy armor.
If there's a gun going off of there, it's probably just some fool celebrating
a Cowboys game.
Well, it never hurts to be extra sure.
- An amulet of magical armor? - It's the most important one.
Rogers, give me two above the cross, go.
Sergeant.
- Slow down, Danny. - Sergeant, that rooftop.
Roger that.
Cover across.
Watch these doors.
What is their current position?
Unknown, sir.
What?
The trackers aren't active yet.
Computer is still connected to the outgoing unit.
How the hell are we gonna find them?
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