. >> engel and his crew, producer madeline herringer, and cameraman redden edwards, land right in theare trying to clear the valley of taliban fighters. the crew is there to document the action. >> pretty much every day this outpost came under attack. and pretty much every time the soldiers went out there to do a patrol in the area, that patrol came under attack. >> while living with the men for weeks at a time, the crew experiences the harshness of the environment. >> the troops are out there for a year and a half. it's pretty tough. there's no showers, the food was pretty much all out of a plastic bag. so the living conditions were pretty bad. >> every conflict is different. in iraq, you're real danger was getting blown up in a humvee. in the korangal, because it's on foot and there are so few vehicles, it's more what you think of as classic warfare. units that are attacked by taliban fighters firing down from the hillsides. we were just in gunfights all the time. >> during the very first firefight they film, cameraman redden edwards gets a little too close to the action. >> there w