Comments on: Afghan night mission ends in bullets

By: R. William Martin

R. William Martin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:15:38 +0000

brian

There was only one reporter, that footage is from the entire night/day we were out, but not much of the actual firefight that ensued.

By: rex minor

rex minor — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:28:40 +0000

These are no longer the brave American marines who fought heroicly during tthe world war two and defeated the fascists enemy.Their style is more or less similar to the Al Capone gangsters,entering peasents houses at night to frighten sleeping innocent women and children!

By: chente

chente — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:22:42 +0000

Through the eyes of many you have single handed demolished the view of my brothers. Namely for nothing more than personal gain in the ranks of journalism. You know you continued to stand like a deer in headlights until one of the soldiers pulled you down and probably saved your life. Further more, who are you to pass judgement on the soldiers who are tired from running around the whole time with mass amounts of weight on their bodies. Weight that tears at the rotator cuff, the traps, and the knees. Soldiers who stand when others would lay and take the abuse. Soldiers who will face an enemy when the rest of the people would sit back in their homes and make ill judgements based on reports like this one. Those same people also critisize and mock us for being the elite 1% who volunteer to be in the position we are in to help people in other unsafe areas of the world. You make us sound undisciplined. You might want to report the rest of the story that shows how we stopped many producers of IEDs and those who oppress their own people.

By: Random Soldier

Random Soldier — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:16:03 +0000

You tried to make this sound like a manic action scene from a movie, when you know things happened differently there. Way to make us look and sound untrained and naive reporting that all of us were fueled on energy drinks and that everyone fell asleep with our gear strewn about and took pictures of soldiers off guard taking a nap to boot. Way to get yourself a story at our expense. I had to deal with you personally in Kush and you showed me there that you were unskilled at this job, should have known this was going to happen.

By: PL Millet

PL Millet — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:10:47 +0000

Seems terrifying Deb! Do you think this kind of search and seizure is effective?

By: freebe

freebe — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:27:51 +0000

War is such a boring drag…alot like porn, the same old same old over and over. The Bush Cheney Wolfowitz Rumsfeld cowboy invade everywhere, shoot the hell out of everything while the war contractors rip off mainstreet U.S.A. goes on and on and on while the lobbyists bribe the congress for more war funding. War sucks. There are no winners. PEACE IS THE ONLY ANSWER.

By: Deborah Gembara

Deborah Gembara — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:12:31 +0000

Hi Brian-
The additional chinook shots are from missions I covered in Monari and Sar Hawza. They just show different angles of the choppers that I thought would be interesting to a viewer.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:30:09 +0000

R. Martin, maybe you can answer my questions if you can recall, is the above footage from that mission?
If so how many reporters were out there because there also seems to be 3 separate shots of the Chinook landing?

By: R. William Martin

R. William Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:57:52 +0000

I am the Fire Support NCO for comanche company, I was on that mission- it was a hot little fire fight for a bit. Matter of fact, I am the guy resting on the multi-cam pack in the foreground.

That being said, the soldier’s who got hollered at were soldiers not on security at the time, we beefed up security as a precaution once we found out we would be out there longer.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:30:44 +0000

Deborah could you please explain the inconsistencies between the story and the footage?
Does the footage relate to the story directly or is it from another mission?