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The team’s leader recounted the experience with raw honesty, emphasizing how war is often far from the dramatized Hollywood portrayals. Soldiers stumble, fall, and suffer injuries that are all too human. For instance, he and his comrades had to carry out their mission in the midst of gunfire, with some members in critical condition, knowing that evacuation by medevac might not arrive in time.
Injuries ranged from gunshot wounds to simple falls that could have resulted in broken bones or worse. The leader himself was shot and found himself hanging by an inch of flesh from a fractured leg—an image that encapsulates the brutality of combat and the thin line between life and death.