July 5th, 2011
09:28 AM ET
Inside a combat outpost
A team, along with journalist Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with U.S. troops at Combat Outpost Pirtle – King in Afghanistan. You'll see what day to day life is like for these soldiers fighting a war, but you'll also see what it's like to face the ultimate adrenaline rush as they encounter deadly gunfire.
While the CNN team was there covering fighting from the side of the troops, they came perilously close to bullets raining down upon their camp.
May God help all of us to love in peace.
I thank all of the soldiers who are out there risking their lives. You do not have to agree with the war, but we need to support our soldiers no matter what. I found some of the comments on here to be quite hateful. I personally know one of the soldiers on this video and I could not be more proud to say that he is a good friend. I just wish the derogatory comments on this page could be removed for the sake of our soldiers and their families – I do not think they should have to go through more pain than they are already enduring. Being away their loved ones is hard enough without all of the negativity that I have read today.
As most learned in kindergarten, "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
Lauren, i agree, it amazes my how many foolish snotty children there are commenting here! not to mention ignorant of procedures and facts!
MPI – I am not ignoring the facts, I know them and I AM DENOUNCING THE FACTS.
May God bring all of us out from these wars soon. May there be peace in everywhere on earth!!!
Tokyo Rose, Hanoi Hannah, idiots that post on sights degrading our military.... pretty much all from the same playbook. They try to twist facts with their own brand of lies. They try to make what is good look evil and what is evil look good.
Fighting with them gives them power they want and directs the conversation away from what we should be doing, supporting our military!
Report their filthy postings, as I have, and laugh at them for the pitiful little creatures they are.
Come ob Sharon, will you kindly realize the simple fact that we have no right whatsoever to be in Afghanistan? The Russians did some 25 years ago when they were there and wisely withdrew by 1989. Besides, you would do well to quit hating those of us who see the light!!!
I just want to know why CNN keeps on allowing this clown to post these nasty pictures on this web page. This post is about the obscene war going on and these pictures are disrespectful and have absolutely no place here!!!
Sadly the ones who don't support our troops are too often the cowards who enjoy all the luxuries of freedom, and have never payed the price.
Freedom is not an american brand neither an intellectual property.
Come on Cody H, this obnoxious war has nothing to do with any of our rights or freedoms and you know that! Anyone with half a brain knows that we have no legitimate business there.
I want my kid home but I don't want him to go back to something worse in 3 or 4 years because we left too soon – and you better believe the same people yelling to take them out now will be screaming to send them back when we get hit again.
I don't want tribal elders to stop working with his unit because they think we will just drop them before the Afghan army is ready to take control. Contrary to pacifist opinions, tribal elders are currently working with our military.
It's important to look at the big picture, not just the one that makes you feel good.
Stand behind our military, they really are the ones in the white hats.
All this needless bloodshed needs to be stopped, not glorified!!! We have absolutely no right at all even to be over there. Like I said before, Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans, not us!!!
It was operatives from Al Qaeda that executed the strikes against the USA on 9/11 and at the time they were centered in Afghanistan – bin Laden was seen there many times. That's why we sent teams into Afghanistan, to flush them out. We got sidetracked by Iraq and Al Qaeda gained power thru the Taliban there. We are the pre-eminent nation and as such are asked to police in other lands. The same was asked of the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Franks (Charlemagne), the British Empire and now us. You don't get powerful and elect to stay home and mind your own business, statecraft does not work that way. No one has ever been able to beat the Afghans in their own mountains, we knew that going in. We stayed long enough to find and kill bin Laden and now we're getting out, having done what we could to modernize the country. When you harbor a group like Al Qaeda, the gloves come off. They thought they could run out of cover, hit us with 9/11 and run back into the mountains and be safe. Now they know better. Yes, we interfere in far places, They were angry we staged the push in Iraq from Saudi Arabia, holy ground to them. But the Saudis let us, didn't they? They never want to shoulder any of the blame. America does what super powers do, I won't step back from that – we've done alot of good out there. I don't opt for staying home and not engaging in the world. That kind of policy would've let Hitler win – try to imagine what kind of world we'd have then.
The Russians did a lot of good in Afghanistan too, Carole such as build schools roads and bridges and established clinics for the sick although not appreciated by most Afghans and very rarely, if ever, mentioned by our own right-wing news media. They finally left in 1989 they way we need to.
Carole – stop using Hitler as an excuse to committ the same atrocities he did.
Dan – Lies ? look my post below with the elenc of western aggression in the last 300 years.
Dan i WONDER if you would feel the same way if your children were in the WTC at 9:45 am on 9/11/01?
PLEASE TELL ME WHERE AND WHEN DID ANY WESTERN FORCES DO ANY HARM TO THE MUSLIM PEOPLE?
Dan – UK attacked Afghanistan 3 times (the 3 afghan wars), they colonized Egypt the old India with the actual Pakistan, Sudan, Arabia, Iraq. The entire region. France attacked Algeria, Sirya , Morocco, Italy colonized Libya and etiopia. In the 1900 the US started to do the same bombing every country in the middle east. Clinton bombed Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan.
Does your lying make you FEEL like your correct in saying that the US and UK are the aggressors? GOD KNOWS what is in every man's heart and mind! The more you try to legitimize the action of EVIL the more DEEP YOU FALL into the ABYSS! WHY do you not recall any Islamic atrocities? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR EVIL LIES WILL OVERCOME YOUR FAITH'S BELIEF THAT THEY ARE THE TRUE FOLLOWERS OF GOD WHEN IN FACT YOU RADICALS ARE TOTALLY OVERCOME BY THE DEVIL AND ONLY FOLLOW HIS WAYS AND NOT AT ALL, IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM AN ASPIRATION TO GOD!
Everyone can see that I reported facts not lies. Do a little search. USA attacked even christian countries like Serbia or mixed countries killing christians in Lebanon, Iraq.
USA and UK are the aggressors as they wlways fought in foreign countries colonizing the middle east.
To TELL you the truth, if there were no America the world would be in CHAOS! And to your judgment on America and it's intentions,like your OWN mind is incapable of comprehension of GOOD and EVIL! That is the only thing YOU have got going for you when judgment day comes! So if i WERE you i WOULD plead STUPIDITY!
I criticize US policy of the last 30 years, since Bush senior. Before that time, USA had a quite good policy, even if sometimes very violent too.
Great reporting by CNN! Altho President Obama, the Congres, and the American public may think the war is 'over"...clearly the Taliban does not think so – and to walk away now would be a huge mistake.
Youre right! Its far from over and anyone that thinks otherwise is foolish