joining us now is active duty marine major tom schueman founder of pb appetite, a nonprofit for veteransh zaki and zak, you and i have talked before. you have spoken with rachel. we have spoken to some parallel circumstances, you will bring a mask, you are still stuck in afghanistan. we weren't sure you were going to get out. >> exactly. >> and now you are here. >> now we are here. yeah. >> how does that feel? >> that feels, you know, like a real life, get out of there, you know, at that time i was hopeless. i'm gonna be there, not be alive for that long. maybe this is -- this is the last interview on your tv. but this is life. because of this print, and brotherhood, always faithful, like we wrote our book, we keep our promises. >> wow, always faithful. >> and we are together right now. >> it's amazing. and you put meat on the bones of the story for a lot of people. because at the time there was a number of people like zak who were stuck there and didn't feel like we were doing exactly the right thing as americans. but we couldn't quite understand for many of us what this unusual relatio

joining us now is active duty marine major tom schueman, head of the a nonprofit for veterans and major schueman and zac, you and i have talked before, you have spoke within rachel, and we have talked in perilous circumstances, you were wearing a mask and still stuck in afghanistan, and we weren't sure were going to get out. >> exactly. >> and now you're here. >> now we are here, yes. >> how does that feel? >> it feels, you know, like i live life, and get out, you know, but our hope was to, to not be like that for that long, and my guess it would be guillotne, you know, because of brotherhood and always faithful, like, we wrote our book, we keep our promises. >> always faithful, wow. >> together right now. >> it's amazing. and you put meat on the bones of this story for a lot of people. because at the time, there were a number of people like zac who were stuck there, and we didn't feel like we were doing exactly the right thing as americans but what we couldn't understand what this unusual relationship was and into your book you go into great detail about how zac was with you all the ti

i sat down with the authors of the new book "always faithful," major tom schueman and his interpreterplatoon. i had 35 marines. one staff sergeant, three sergeants and our job was to locate and destroy the enemy by fire maneuver. >> you couldn't do it without someone like zak? >> i can navigate through the fields or deserts or villages, but i don't understand the culture. i'm unable to interact with the populace really at all without him by my side. it became immediately evident that zak was different. whether zak was listening to a radio or the taliban were talking and he knew they would initiate an attack he would sprint through the minefield, tackled the guy who was about to do the ambush, he went from somebody who just worked for us to he became one of us. >> we didn't think we were like different people. we think like same, same marines because we are on same field. if we die, we all get die same place. we got to help each other. >> reporter: in the new book "always faithful," they open up about their bond from seven months spent together on the battlefield to zak and his family'