not real bad, but enough to be medevacked. cut my platoon down. >> isn't that all part of war as the generals say? >> sure it is, but for seven months up here, one battalion ain't going to have much left if that's part of war. ought to rotate more i think. send us back where we can get new men and train people. they're coming out green and don't know how to act. >> rifle's been jamming. mud has slowed everything down. artillery comes in everywhere. and just gets pretty futile and frustrating sometimes. >> really depressing part about it is there isn't really much you can do. you know what i mean? you see the rounds come in, you see your buddies get blown away and wounded. stuff like that. >> i can't say i'm scared stiff, i mean, i'm scared. i mean, after a while, you know it's going to come. you can't do nothing about it and you just look to god. that's about the only thing you can do. >> have you gotten word from up around con thien about how the war is going? >> yeah, if we don't get more people up in this area real quick, w