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fought back. war caught on camera. correspondents in the heat of battle. >> i remember here ding, ding, ding, the bullets are hitting the side. >> troops recording the danger they face every day. >> my first instinct was that i just lost three soldiers in a vehicle. >> mi come on, fire. >> and declassified military video that stuns the world. >> in this hour troops from the frontlines to their front lawns. >> i think he remembers you. >> war up close.
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>> caught on camera, combat. hello. i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." u.s. troops in the wars in iraq and afghanistan have had some of the most high-tech fighting gear, but they've also brought something else to the battlefield like never before. their cameras. the images captured have changed the way people back home see and hear what the troops are going through. thousands of miles away. a terrifying ied attack. punctuated by sheer moments of terror. >> in the wars in iraq and afghanistan by far the most common and deadly weapon against u.s. troops has been the
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improvised explosive device or ied. also known as roadside bombs, ied's have played the lives of 65% of all u.s. casualties in both wars. >> it's the number one killer of soldiers. it's the number one weapon of insurgents. they're also scary as hell. >> sometimes the difference between life and death is just seconds on a trigger. >> you just don't see it coming. you can have that gut feeling all day long, but i don't know where it's coming from.
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>> the men are exhausted. >> we've been out for about 36 hours at this point. >> it was difficult to see if the windows and there are narrow alleys, and there was intersections. >> on this day the area's main road, a major supply route for both u.s. and iraqi forces looks clear, and the squadron decides to take it. >> i got it before every time we got attacked, i got a pit in my stomach, and i knew something bad was going to happen, and that's why i decided to take a camera and start filming just based purely on a hunch. >> staff sergeant jason cat rel
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is acting as lead scout standing up through the hatch in his bradley fighting vehicle. >> captain brown is on the radio reporting their position. when an ied detonates. >> my first instinct was that i just lost three soldiers in a vehicle. >> brown believes the ied has vaporized the bradley in front of him it happened in slow motion, and you couldn't see it anymore. the ied was so deeply buried. with you didn't see anything more. i was already ready to as soon as you got security established, call for helicopter support.
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>> i checked on my crew to find out everybody is all right. i called it up that we were fwood to go, still rolling. >> the convoy continues quickly back to its combat outpost after inspecting their vehicles for damage, the men can finally breathe a sigh of relief. sergeant cat rel realizes the bradley's open hatch is what saved his life. >> i had it straight up, and i tell you, that hatch was between me and a lot of the debris that blasted through. put a few big dings in the hatch, but i'm very happy it was there and protecting me from large chunks of shrapnel or debris that could have probably taken me out. >> captain brown downloads the video to his laptop and his
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soldiers gather around to watch it. >> the next five days they scour for the insurgents responsible for the attack. although they never find the men who planted the ied, they do eventually secure this area of mosul and rebuild the road for safe passage. >> it's one of those things where it's very personal when you get attacked. i've had a lot of ied's blow up on my vehicle. even on my door of my vehicle.
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zones. >> on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> they've been incoming rounds from at least two direction on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for jushlists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan it's as dangerous as ever. in 2008 nbc news's richard engel, the network's chief foreign correspondent heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at a lonely outpost called restricto. >> we didn't know exactly what we were going to find. we went to the cornball outing, which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would see action, we would see combat. >> engel and his crew producer madeline herringer and reddon edwards landed right in the middle of the action. the men at viper company are trying to clear the valley of taliban fighters, and the crew is there to document the action.
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>> pretty much every day this outpost came under attack. pretty much every time the soldiers went out there to do a patrol the patrol came under attack. >> white living with the men for weeks at a time, the crew experiences the harshness of the environment. >> troops were out there for a year and a half. it's pretty tough. the food was pretty much all -- >> it's more what you think of as classic warfare. units that are attacked by taliban fighters firing down. just gunfights all the time.
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>> suddenly the gunshots ring up. up on to the top of the actual command post, they are wanting to get a full sequence of him firing. i basically got too close to the weapon and was hit by a shell casing. >> not to get in the way of that is correct but draws blood. >> you're not thinking about safety or security. you are thinking about how you can compile a story together. >> filming incoming is much more difficult. >> before too long engel and his crew find themselves in an
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extremely difficult situation. the soldiers design to mountain operation designed to draw out the taliban. >> the troops broke up to two units. one unit from restreppo and took up a post in a safehouse. the other unit walked, drove, and moved into the village on the other side and set up position in a farmhouse. >> things are going as planned. >> there's a loud explosion. >> i u.s. fired mortar lands directly on the safehouse where part of the unit waits in
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ambush. >> it was an awful moment because what it meant was the operation we thought we were going to do suddenly turned into this very. >> you were trying to extract wounded men. your cover is blown. the troops who were injured had to release red smoke. to later them of their exact location. >> nod to warring about his wounded men, the xhabder also needs to get everyone else out of there. including the nbc news crew.
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>> as expected, as the soldiers are leaving, we got it. >> we rounlded the corner, and that's when the first shot range out. that was gunfire everywhere. there was another soldier that raced back. >> the bullets are pinging off the side of the are humvee. as i'm between a rock and the humvee and reddon is walking backwards, so the two of us are behind this humvee. i'm walking forward, and he is walking backwards filming me. my mind was racing because we needed pictures. you can't have pictures unless you are filming. richard and i were having a giggle the other day because i said, richard, where didn't we just get into the humvee and
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hide there? neither one of us could remember why we didn't. had we got into the humvee, we wouldn't have then got the pictures. >> we're trying to cross an open stretch of road. we came under attack. the crew and the soldiers make it back to the command post, but then the men get the news they had been dreading. one member of their company, sergeant john, was killed in the incident. the fact they this done this themselves, it still bothers them. they haven't gotten over there, and probably never will. epgel and his crew spend more than a year going back filming the men of restreppa.
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>> i think the need to go to these places is because nobody else is going. or few people are going. i have a camera, and i would like to record it as well. therefore, i'm telling my story through these pictures. that's the great thing about being -- we have this amazing power with this thing we call in our hand to record life. war happens, and i think it's important to see war up close as a society to understand about our human nature.
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battlefield. van is one of the unit's vehicle commanders. >> we essentially go down these roads looking for these bombs, looking for indicators that bombs are there. we tried to find them and we use various equipment to locate it, detect it. >> we had a camera record everything. just had a camera on the dash of my vehicle. >> i was deposition afghanistan, and it was the real deal over there. >> april 2009 the unit captures on camera a frightening day when they are hit with multiple
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ied's. we get hit in the middle of no. where trz no indicators and monitors. there's just an ied in the middle of nowhere. >> no one is hurt in that explosion, but the ied takes a critical piece of equipment. the repairs take hours forcing them to wait until morning to move again. >> they order him to continue. the next day just as they set out, the camera captures yet another strike. >> each time when your friend is blown up, your heart stops. you don't know. you wait for the dust to calm down and wait for the radio to crack back up, and hear something. >> it was good, right?
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>> everybody is good to go. so we recovered the vehicle and then continued on the road. finally the group makes it safely to its destination. batter and shaken, but alive. phil is also a commander in the 235th which has survived numerous ied's. >> for a split second there's definitely a sense of, god, this is it. this is -- it's all over. then you realize everything is good and you start hearing everybody again. you know everybody is okay. all right. we made it. the platoon routinely watches their own videos and evaluate their reactions. >> the videos were really a time to decompress after a mission. it was something to look forward to being able to sit down
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together. >> they say they videotaped the war to remember and to prove exactly what happened there. >> it goes a long way. it's black and white. going to war shouldn't be something that has taken so lightly. they each sustained significant physical injuries, including concussions, rap toured eardrums, and broken bones. they earned five purple hearts among them. all three men finished their tours. all struggle with memories of the war. but they agree what got them through is their brotherhood. >> i would to it all over again.
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welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. wikileaks released disturbing u.s. military video from three years earlier. the footage shows a deadly aerial assault. among those killed, two journalists from reuters. a warning, the video you are about to see is graphic and may be hard to watch. >> july 12th, 2007. the temperature is more than 100 degrees in central baghdad. >> ied. >> this is the most violent period u.s. forces in iraq have seen. the surge, 30,000 u.s. troops are deployed to root out the insurgency. more troops on the streets means more danger and attacks against
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u.s. forces are increasing daily. >> this is at the apex of iraq gone to hell. the surge has just started. the war went from incredibly violent to over the top violent. especially in baghdad. >> we would get blown up regularly. >> they're on patrol in a rundown neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base and while the soldiers patrol, they hear sporadic gunfire. >> this area had been a troublesome area, and bravo company was tasked to go in and try to flush people out. >> two apache helicopters are freewaying air support and cameras mounted on their gun
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sites are recording the mission. wikileaks added the subtitle on the video, but the audio you hear are the pilots' radio chatter. >> we got to target coming at you. >> the pilots spot a group of men they suspect are insurgents carrying weapons. >> screening. pass the individuals with weapons. he has -- >> there's about 20 of them. >> oh, yeah. >> because the men are all dressed similarly, the pirlts don't realize that two of them are journalists. photographer and his driver. the apache soldiers seem to mistake namir's camera for a rocket propelled grenade. >> we got guys on rpg. >> fire. >> let's come around. from ow point of view. >> i saw an individual rp fw.
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getting ready to fire. we got to get -- >> behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the commanding officer on the ground to fire on the group. >> yourup >> come on. fire. [ gunfire ] >> look at those dead [ bleep ]. >> nice. >> a few minutes pass and sayeed, the reuters employee, begins crawling away. >> you got that guy crawling right now on the curb. >> i got him. you guys are shooting over there too. we'll see. >> and the pilots are begging, you know, sort of themselves and begging the higher power that
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would get up and grab a weapon so they could fire on them again. >> come on, buddy. >> pick up a weapon zoosh when you listen to the audio, when you go through the entire thing, listen to it in its entirety, you get a sense of detachment. almost as if, dare i say it, a video game. >> in the meantime, a van drives into the scene. >> crazy horse. we have individuals going to the scene. looks like possibly picking up bodies and weapons. >> appears to be sort of an insurgent ambulance that's going on pick them up. >> the pilots want permission to attack again. >> roger. crazy horse. permission to engage. >> come on. let us shoot. >> clear. >> come on.
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>> clear. clear. >> there's no sign of any further weapon. there certainly is no sign of any further fight. these guys are certainly no threat. yet, the helicopter pilots decide to light up the van. and blast it. >> oh, yeah. look at that. right through the windshield. >> just a few minutes later specialist mcchord and the rest of bravo company arrive on the scene. >> i immediately saw a group of men by a wall who had just been completely shredded from these 30 millimeter rounds, and i saw against the wall what is an rpg. the rpg did not have a round in it. then on the ground close by was an ak-47. i saw the light blue minivan,
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and i could hear a little girl crying. >> realizing that there is a wounded child inside, mcchord and his soldiers run to the van. >> inside the van when i looked in was a little girl about 4 years old. she had a severe belly wound and glass in her eyes and in her hair and all over. next to her was a boy about 7 years old. he had a very severe wound to the right side of his head. next to him in the driver's seat was a father. lfs no way that he had survived. immediately i grabbed the little girl, grabbed a medic, and was picking glass out of the little girl's eyes so that she could blink. you know, there were no weapons or anything inside the van. it looked like a father driving his kids. >> the medic rushes the girl to a nearby vehicle as mcchord returns to the van to take a photograph. >> and as i put my camera down,
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the boy makes a movement like a labored breath. i remember my heart sinking, and i start screaming out at this point. the boy is alive. the boy is alive. so i pulled the boy out, and i start running towards the bradley. as i'm running i tell him it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay. i have you. don't die. don't die. he looks up at me, and in the video you can see where i stop running because he looks up at me for a second and then his eyes roll in the back of his head. >> mcchord hands the wounded boy to the medics at the bradley vehicle. zoo know, the whole time that this is going on, you know, my own kids are in the back of my head. when i put the boy inside the bradley, my platoon leader, who is a lieutenant, was standing there. what he said to me was mcchord, what the f are you doing? quit wasting your time with these mf'ing children and go pull security.
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video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad and then on a van trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement about 20 minutes later. >> to me the most shocking part of the video comes. >> make it clear. >> there's some confusion. there's maybe some shots from nearby. all of a sudden they zero in on a group of guys in towards the building. >> there are six individuals in that building with weapons. >> and they say, well, let's hit it with a hell fire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile, and at the bottom left corner of the screen you see the guy just kind of randomly walking into the scene, and they don't say no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, don't fire.
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they shoot it off. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business, and then one second he is there. one second he is not. as far as i can tell, he was vaporized. i don't think his family probably ever knew what happened to him because there was nothing left. >> just come around. we'll fire. >> a lot of people don't know this, but the only thing that was found in that building when our teams went in there were a bunch of dead families. three families to be exact of children and women. that house could have been cleared very easily by one of our teams. instead they hose to fire hell fire missiles into this building. >> stand by. engage the weapon on the hell fire. >> all right.
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>> clear. >> fire. >> where there is some bad people in the area? yeah. there were. >> confirming the deaths of nine insurgents and two civilians. meaning that the reuters journalists. according to the statement, before the apaches opened fire, american troops were conducting a raid nearby when they were hit with small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades. reuters conducts its own investigation and can find no one in the area who saw any clashes that day. one week later the news organization demands an official u.s. investigation. it also specifically requests
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access to the apache on board cameras and voice communications. >> highlighted -- >> the u.s. military is trying to explain a newly leaked video that shows apache helicopters killing civilians in a 2007 raid in iraq. >> ethan mcchord has just dropped off his children at school when he gets the news.
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>> came home, sat down on the couch with my cup of coffee, turned on the news. it's insane because the very first image i saw was of me running across the screen carrying a child. i was angry just by the initial shock of it being on the tv, but also a little relieved. i wanted people to know what was happening in iraq. >> the same day the video hits the air the u.s. military releases the report it conducted in the weeks following the 2007 incident. >> the reports was heavily redacted, and the report basically said we investigated the incident, and our guys behaved accordingly. there was no violation, if you will, of this engagement, which obviously once you see the video, the conclusion are die metrically opposed. >> in the fog of war, in the context of combat, this is what is happening. >> after the wiki leaks'
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release, people press the military to reopen its investigation. >> they in the end backed up the support and said we're not going to do anything to reopen this, which, again, i thought was a very tragic. >> the united states military declined to request to comment for this program and instead directed us to the findings in its report. since its release, the video has sparked much debate. >> there was a perception that there was a threat, that there were enemy soldiers that had weapons sxrnks they were permitted to get clearance from the tactical prayings to fire. >> i think it's slanderous to say that -- i think it's -- >> it's a complicated situation. in some ways in the first part of the incident, it's harder to find fault with the pilots for their initial actions. you could argue they should have shown more restraint. it's harder to explain what they do about the van. the reason is, look, here in the
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air. they can follow that van anywhere. in fact, it might have been from a strictly military point of view it might have been better to follow the van and see where that led. >> urban combat is probably the most severe, most difficult type of combat that any army will ever face. with that said, there are very clear criteria set up for the use of deadly force. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. i have seen the video several times. that van should never have been engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, i'm going to be very clear here, the presence of a weapon in the battlefield is not constituting a threat. it constitutes a weapon. you have on determine if the weapon is tied to someone who is threatening.
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>> for eight more months in iraq. before he was wupded in this ied. >> i learned how to live without a lot of things in iraq. when i looked in and i saw those children, the one thing i couldn't live without was my own humanity. i couldn't self-justify what i was doing in iraq anymore. what we as a nation were doing in iraq. i had to refigure out who i was as a human being and what i wanted out of life. and what legacy i was going to leave for my children. i struggle every day, every day i struggle. >> this is a situation where we could and should have done a better job of protecting innocent life because this is not only a war of territory, of physical destruction, this is a war of hearts and minds. clearly if you're killing
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while thousands of miles from home, u.s. troops use all the technology available to them. >> what's up? >> -- including video to stay in touch with their families. like this dad who reads to his daughter on camera whenever he can. >> waits at dawn. time to work the whole day long. >> yeah. >> the separations can be long and difficult. and they make coming home all the more sweet. >> daddy!
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>> homecoming is the day troops and their families dream of. >> oh, my god! >> and more than a few of them are caught on camera. >> april, 2011, senior airman trevor crowder is anxious to return home from his nine-month deployment in iraq. >> i was excited. i was nervous at the same time. i wasn't expecting a big homecoming. i knew it was going to be my wife. i wasn't expecting a big parade or anything. >> back home in nebraska, there is more than one family member who misses trevor dearly. >> good boy. >> emmett thunderpaws is a 3-year-old great dane, the pride and joy of the crowder family. while trevor's deployed, emmett misses his playmate. >> get in my face and pushing me down. >> emmett, he missed rolling around with trevor. they're best friends.
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hi, emmett. >> on the day her husband returns from war, whitney decides to videotape trevor's homecoming from emmett's point of view. >> emmett, come on. hey, emmett. do you not recognize me? he clearly smelled me coming in through the door. so i had no idea his reaction was going to be like that. it made it special for us. >> he was just like trying to look him in the eyes. i think he remembers you. >> how you doing? >> it was really fun to see emmett greeting trevor coming back. and it was really cute. i'm glad that i caught it on camera. >> and we're done. >> in buffalo, new york, another soldier is greeted by a very emotional pooch. [ whining ] >> i miss you, yeah. >> karen fisher, an air force captain is returning from afghanistan, when she's surprised by her beloved golden retriever molly.
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[ whining ] >> i knew she would react, molly would react, but i didn't expect her to react the way that she did in the airport. i think she was just kind of beside herself and, we were both just overjoyed. >> staff sergeant joe meyers knew his surprise return from iraq would bring joy to his 9-year-old daughter hannah. >> come here. [ applause ] >> when the cameras started coming in, they told us that they were going to look at our class because we were the best fourth grade class. so they said that they were just going to come in and look around, and they said to welcome some special guests. >> the most special guest of all, her dad. >> it took all i could do to keep my composure coming through the door of that classroom and
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looking for my daughter. >> two years after her father's surprise visit to her classroom, hannah lives in germany with her parents and younger sister. she and her father treasure the memory of that day. >> it was like a blur, but i was just so excited because i had no clue. and he wasn't supposed to be coming home that day. he was supposed to be coming home a little while after, like a few weeks, i think. >> in my 22 years i've been deployed four different times. i missed almost an entire school year for hannah. i didn't know what to expect. didn't know whether she'd jump up and down, whether she'd sit there in shock or the reaction that she had. their video ends up on youtube, and becomes a sensation. millions of people continue to revel in their reunion. something that amazes them to this day. >> sometimes i think about it, i'm like, oh, gosh, the world saw me cry. but my excuse is that i was only 9.
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>> joe meyers says the best part of his return was not the attention it got -- >> seeing my wife's face and my daughter's is the best part. >> and despite all the people who share it, it is still their private moment. >> i think it gives us kind of just a little common ground that she and i were both there in that moment and that we have everything that's gone on since then, the video and everything else that's happened, to reflect back on just she and i. >> hannah, it's true, a lot of people may have seen you cry, but a lot of people also shared in your joy. thanks for giving us something to smile about. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of about "caught on camera."
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