. >> in november we were ordered to once again hitalluja. and that was just complete chaos. 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 lot of 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 rig away. it can be 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 e town, and we had snipers on the buildings. they were firing at us. bombs were blowing up everywhere. [gunshots] and 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 leg