. >> reporter: it's morning at forward operating base bostick. the men and women of the 227 infantry the wolfhounds, prepare for their day. >> start off with role call. >> reporter: whatever the pending plans for america's longest war coming from washington, the work, and the fight in this part of the country, feels far from over. more than ten years after the 9/11 attacks, this war is now being waged by soldiers who were in grade school at the time. captain matthew schachman is now 28. only 9/11, he was a teenager, focused on hockey, for which he was drafted by west point. >> there's a couple different points up on the ridge line up here where they shoot at us from. >> reporter: this is his second deployment in four years. now, forward operating base bostick is his home. >> whole foods. chocolate chip cookies. >> classy. >> reporter: for the six months that the troops of the 227 have been away from their families, they've been focused on operated rugged sarak, which means road. this road. securing it, having it paved. keeping the enemy from ille

it was bryonn bain, aka bostick. i did not know who that was. they have given up my information and i've done myself in jail again for a crime i did not commit. this time i said, hell no, i am suing everybody. the police, the state of new york. the public defender came to me -- this is the craziest part of the situation. the public defender who is there to defend your constitutional rights -- she came in to see me with plastic cause and a surgical mask. i saw her walking around with all the rest of the brothers. i thought maybe she had something that she did not want to give us. [laughter] that is righteous. i respect that. whenever you have to do. then she got me into the interrogation room and she said to me, you say you have education. where did you go to school, high school? public-school of new york. this does that add up. i skipped two grades before college. where did you go to college? how did you pay for college? you went to grad school? how did you pay for law school? what did that have to do with my case? i was just going with the flow

. >>> we had jeff bostick in here last couple hours he said you got to have patience with this grouply take the advice of mike shanahan who won two super bowls in denver and say let's stay the course it is frustrating today he has a plan i have to trust that plan if that is what guys like bosco are saying to do i know it is hard to do today if you don't see something down the road i mean by the end of the year where you look like you are going in the right direction it is a fair question to ask whether indeed they are headed in the right direction. >> we will see you see john beck, i want the guy to do well when you see what you see i am sitting at home going you put rex in these are my choices. >> they are not great choices and were not to start the year off with. this goes back to what was the game plan from week one. we also did something fun earlier this morning with jeff we showed old clips look at tony's outfits here. >> yeah. >> look at this. >> probably 95 alison. >> well, i think it is provocative. >> we were out on the field >> i like your sweater >> look at the next one. >>

jeff bostick is here along with dave ross.e has a little hardware i don't think you could be able to handle. >> that is why you have bosco in the house. this town hasn't seen hardware since he was playing. >> thank you for. cog in. >> like old times here, isn't it in. >> i don't know how you morning people do television at this hour every day. i mean i'm not worthy, okay. it is amazing. >> jeff, seriously, when you were out there yesterday and they welcomed you guys back and you and i caught up a couple of weeks ago at a golf tournament and you told me that bruce allen has been doing some good things here trying to incorporate the guys that helped win the rings, it has to feel good to get back there. i know it is not rfk. but at least it is fedex. >> the big thing people don't realize what it is like to be in the team atmosphere and have teammates that you haven't seen. i told keith griffin, former running back, i haven't seen him since probably 1990 and i saw shim this weekend and i told keith i would give him a hello. so the

. >> early this morning also jeff bostick is here we will talk about a dispointing afternoon. >> excuse me gentlemen, do you want to order some humble pie. >> humble pie i will take this and throw it in his face. >> you were going to throw the pie in my face. >> we never ate humble pie when i played. >> there you go. >> every never got used to the taste of humble pie. >> how come you look the same and dave and i look like children. >> look at my hands you haven't seen me walk tony. it is fun reminiscing and looking back at that old footage we had a ball. >> we did. >> i think you still got a future in maybe the food industry somewhere. >> probably does have a future. yesterday, you get to walk out on the field the reunion day i know you talked about this earlier, but it is not rfk it is fedex field but when you get out there, it has got to be heart warming. >> it is always good to be remembered but going out there and seeing the burgundy and gold you learn you were fortunate to put that uniform on and represent this football team it brings back memories and kind of you start reminiscing

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