and we were moving as fast as possible -- >> was he a arguing -- >> first lieutenant larry gwen, officer of the company. >> -- of the company -- okay. and so tell me what happens when you -- when the firing starts? what is your platoon's position? >> when we halted, and at the time, just before that, one of my men told me that we had people behind us. i was worried. i said, oh, because i was supposed to be the rearmost. it turned out to be a couple company 1st through the 5th. it was alpha company, captain george forest's company, and so it's no problem there. that was -- that got me wondering, if i'm supposed to be the last guy here, how come we got more people behind. then we stopped for the rto, the information i got was that the conference for all company commanders has been called. company commanders are going forward. we're halted. they found two enemy soldiers, they captured two enemy allegedly deserters who say that there's more deserters around but there's a lot more who didn't want to desert waiting for us some place and they were eager to kill americans, and that basically sai