. >> sizemore ended up trying to put the tourniquet on. i was trying to help him cinch it down.s i was cinching it down, i took two rounds to the chest. kind of caught me off guard. basically, there was a lot of dust and shrapnel from my plate. >> i got shot. >> and i realized a bullet fragment jumped up behind me at the same time i was getting hit in the face and hit me in the back. >> i got shrapnel in the ass. my tang bottle stopped it. >> that's the one that went through the tang bottle. i thought it stopped it but it didn't. >> start engaging with everything we had. it was a rough, rough day that day. >> reporter: fellow soldiers in the nearby farmhouse tried to cover their surrounded buddies with a hail of fire but the taliban kept shooting. >> the rounds were coming straight through the tree. you could not see up the draw from there. >> went through everybody's mind, you know, this might be the day. this might be the day. >> reporter: with mendez and sizemore with specialist lindskog, the medic, the quiet california boy was on his first combat mission. >> doc, his hands w