most reporters caught, you know, six days in falluja. for most of us it was more more like 3 to 4 weeks of intense combat. and by the time we were done, we had lost 33 marines and the city was in bad shape. it was pretty much destroyed. >> we have a film. we like to say that in a world full of problems, "ground operations" is a story about solutions. we have a lotf veterans coming back from both from iraq, who have been here for a while, and from afghanistan, who are coming home now. ptsd often doesn't show up rightway. it cabe a year or two or more before it really starts to show up >> you're always on alert. you know, you're thinking of the worst scenarios that are gonna happen. [explosion] whoa! >> we were going through the town, and we had snipers on the budings. they were firing at us. bombs were blowing up everywhere. [gunshots] d a mortar came in, and it blew up the same side of the door that i was on, and i was injured. from that i took shrapnel to my head and to my legs. i wascared like anybody would be. you know, i didn't want