>> montalbano: yes. it would be pretty typical during the course of an operation to take fire. >> anderson: we had had a long deployment. it was fairly kinetic. >> whitaker: a lot of action. >> anderson: yeah. everyone was coming home safe. we had a few guys from our sister team that had gotten shot on a previous mission. >> whitaker: the ten-man a-team was part of the fifth special forces group from fort campbell, kentucky. the group's commander called them the "most disciplined, well-trained, and effective" unit in afghanistan. the green berets struck out from forward operating base apache, a dusty outpost in restive zabul province, an area dotted with beehives of taliban fighters, hidden in plain sight among the locals. >> anderson: we knew that this area contained taliban and bad guys. so, we understood that there was a clear possibility that we would be getting shot at, at some point. >> hey, get down! >> whitaker: captain anderson says the taliban stepped up its attacks when the u.s. announced most