Stories of Survival: The Battle of Kamdesh
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- On October 3, 2009, a massive Taliban force assaulted the American Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan resulting in a bloody battle leaving eight Americans killed and 27 wounded.
This is their story.
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I flew into Keating back in 2008, I was dropping off equipment for the S6. I was told I would have only a few minutes to do what I needed or I would be left behind. As I worked with the S6 Soldier, I looked around and at the mountains all around me. I never felt so small in my life. During my deployment in 2007/2008, I was deployed with Joshua Kirk. He was an amazing Soldier, he was a great leader and did everything for his Soldiers. He was killed during this battle.
Just looking at the terrain features and where the post was located I was dumbfounded any command would place soldiers there. What a sad situation. I was in a Cavalry unit back in the 80s.
I was in the Air Force and deployed during this battle and could hear all of the air craft leaving the air strip in a hurry to provide them air support. At the time, I never knew what was going on but I knew something big was happening. Only years later did I find out what was happening and wow, these men are absolute heroes and deserve more recognition!!!!
I am a Vietnam Veteran. We tried to put all our outpost on the top of the mountains. Of course our mountains were not nearly as tall as yours but they were covered in green stuff. I am glad all of you made it home, hope all of you are well.
Damn onion cutting ninjas snuck into my office while this was playing. BRCC- this is an amazing retelling and I love the work you guys are doing.
Yeah it snuck in here too! Brilliant retelling and those brave guys getting to tell their stories too! Brilliant work!
Im trying to work here dammit! Where the hell did they come from????
the outpost was such a good movie and then to find out at the end that some of the guys in that fight were acting in the movie just hit hard. like these heros relived this battle so the story could be told the right way.
Thank you to our servicemen. Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart.
Protected America from those goat herders and helped many defense contractors grow their profits
I got to AFG Oct/Nov 2009 on terminal leave from the Marine Corps. I heard about this in BAF while getting to RC East. I couldn't comprehend due to all the change I was going through. When I watched outpost later on I was so disgusted with their shit officer leadership I signed up (part time Reserves). I had aged a bit. Due to being out the Corps for ~10 years I had to go to basic at the ripe age of 36 lol. I told the young guys to call me Dad due to me being old enough to father them haha. I finished basic in October 2021 and completed OCS in February 2022. The outpost fired me up. Garbage brass is so extremely frustrating. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with stage for 4 brain cancer August of 2022. I managed to get one drill in before hanging it up. I wanted to be there to push back on bad decisions or lack there of. SMH.
...all for nothing. Taliban controls Afghanistan, with about $60 billion in US weaponry.
I appreciate your service. I’m 36 now and although I have always kept myself in basic fighting shape I’m not sure I’d be as charged up to take on basic training. Although these days the standards aren’t what they were but Ive always been the type to push myself even to the point of injury in situations like that so I wouldn’t just be able to do the bare minimum.
Damn Walker Thank You, I'll be praying for you and your family much respect from a 38yr old Mississippian
Semper Fi brother. I was out for 17 and went back in at 40 after 911 happened, lucky for me, I didn't have to go to bootcamp thank goodness. I too was pretty distraught seing what happened on "Outpost".
Awesome fuckin story
27:56 That messed me up pretty good! All the men and women who served in situations like this need real recognition directed by people who were there!
True warriors. Thank you guys and rest in peace to all the ones that couldn’t come home. Thank you🇺🇸
I'll never forget watching Restrepo around 2012 and thinking what was the point of that position at the lowest possible point... A valley that had no strategic importance and one that had never been successfully occupied by any invading force. God bless these men and their families.
What legends these men are. I cannot thank you enough for your sacrifice and loss. True American hero’s.
Thanks for letting them tell their story.
I’m so sorry you gentlemen had to go through that and will be forever appreciative of your sacrifice.
This is a great example of someone in command not understanding anything.
Makes you question why people are listing to the dod and state department when they talk about deployments of troops
Prayers to the fallen and may God bless and keep all of you! Thank you for all of your sacrifices and service.
that was just as intense as the movie was... thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your story, Gentlemen. Thank you to all of our military and your families for sacrificing for my freedom.
Thank you all for sharing this with everyone 🇺🇸👊🏻
I hope you guys can get chris blake jones aka jonesy and broadcast his story on that day. He’s a beast and doesn’t get recognize. Impeccable soldier.
Nasty work done by exceptional men. Thank you. I still love what we believe in.
Thank you for your Service ❤🇺🇸
Thank you for finally releasing the video
Armando, thank you for your vulnerability, bravery, and your willingness to share the story of you and your brothers.
@@wormulusrn thanks for watching keeping my brothers memory going
I hope you're doing well brother.
Thank you for sharing your story. I read Clint’s book and watches the movie. Infuriating and heartbreaking all in one. My nephew was at OP Mustang around this time. You all have the balls of Batman. May your brothers live on forever and may you and those who made it out find peace.
Awesome story telling as usual BRCC. I am not a big reader but I bought Romesha's book "Red Platoon" about this battle. It was the first book in a very long time I couldn't put down and read it over 2 days.
These guys were legends at 3-61 along with all 2IBCT(now SBCT) and 4ID. It's sobering to know that 3-61 cased it's colors over the summer really closing this chapter in history. The most notable example of "esprit de corps" I saw while at 4ID was my leadership having their names etched above our platoon rooms in Afghanistan.
That’s boss as hell right there
Your sacrifices will never be forgotten. 🇺🇸
Thank you for covering this. So few have mentioned it.
I’m so blessed to have such warriors who were willing to fight for the oppressed and face evil head on. I love these videos that BRCC makes to help remind me of how lucky I am to be in such a beautiful country. I wish we could make more people see these videos to remind them as well. 🇺🇸
They fought those goat herders, it was for nothing but they fought them
Thx for sharing their story!
Thank you for sharing this! Amazing warriors
I remember being at Fort Eustis for BNCOC, they stopped classes as we were informed of what had occurred. 😢😣
God bless you all that were there 🙏🏼🇺🇸
To all the incredible Soldiers in this video and those mentioned and the team at Black Rifle Company: Thank you for capturing and sharing these powerful stories of our heroes. Your dedication to bringing their bravery and sacrifice to life through this video is not just a tribute but a reminder to us all of the courage, strength, and resilience that these men embody every day. Your work helps connect us to their journeys, keeping their legacies alive and inspiring. Grateful for your effort in ensuring their voices are heard and their stories are remembered. Here’s to the heroes behind the scenes and those who stand on the front lines. #HonorOurHeroes #StoriesOfBravery #UnbreakableSpirit
I heard about this a few days after it happened while in RC South and it's true it's up to us to speak and tell stories of the heroes we lost during that long war.
Thank you for your service 🇺🇸
R.I.P to all who died in that battle and thanks to all who fought for are freedom that day. God bless you all.
Powerful, thanks.
2 MOH. The last part of the movie was very emotional. One of my favourite war movie.
Watched the movie on netflix....... yal really did an awsome job
Everyone of these men are heroes, RIP to all of those who gave their lives.
I am a Vietnam and Iraq Veteran...I have no words..
In 2009 my platoon was initially the QRF for keating. We were picked up via chinook while on patrol and rerouted to keating. We never made it.
Who were u with 132 inf /371 cav here 10th mtn
Amazing video & story. Thank you.
GREAT interview! You guys couldn't tell First Sgt his top had a button undone? Epic, lol.
Thank you to the boys that served, thank you to those that came home, those that didn’t. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you to BRCC for telling their stories. You boys are honoured and remembered.
Fuck that cut deep. Thank you from a Brit that didn’t serve but had friends that did. Some of their biggest battles were fought upon their return. Love you guys.
Hewitt, Spicer, Shearer. Gone but not forgotten. Hinett, Love you buddy
Ordinary men being extraordinary. Best example we have.
As soon as I wanted to watch A Doc on this, this popped up ⬆️
God bless our troops! 🇺🇸
That was hard to watch, these guys carry that pain as we all do.
-Zhari province FOB Wilson 3-08 CDN forces.
This reminds you of so many of the battles of the Vietnam War. US troops surrounded in small outpost.
SGT Martin, SGT Gallegos, SGT Kirk, SGT Hardt, SPC Scusa, SPC Mace, SPC Griffin, PFC Thomson. I love you guys, never forgotten!
Is this 1st sgt Burton?
Martin was my go to guy for motorpool stuff. Got to know scusa in Iraq on the previous deployment. Miss those guys.
@Jonesy11B yeah brother. Hope and pray you are doing well.
@@ronburton7611thank you, I pray and hope you are doing well too. Just wanted to say I appreciate you looking out for me, always cool in my book.
❤ 🙏
I was with the QRF from 1-32/10th MTN that day. The 3-61 men fought hard and were brave.
Brad Larson is a charisma vacuum
His eyebrows ate it
That base was a wet dream for a Derka Derka
The army couldn't figure that out??
When I read about that, I immediately wondered if he didn't have a great trip and maybe limp wristed it just because of the situation. I fully understand that happening because my closest encounter with a Grizzly was at about 35 yards when I rounded a bend in the trail. It stood up and I thought it was about an 11 foot and thousand pound bear. It turned and walked away. After calming down it was probably about 600 lbs and a lot smaller than 11 feet. I was glad I had my Glock 20 with Buffalo Bore's hard cast. This was in Teton National Forest.
The only time I'm in big bear country is when I'm visiting National Parks and Forests. At night I also have my S&W model 22 loaded with Buffalo Bore's hard cast .45 Supers. My wife is with me and it's a compromise. We can camp out for a couple of nights if we get a room the rest of the time.
Love your channel.
Man nuristan and kunar was pretty wild. Them mountains broke all us off....if ur going up to an OP ...i was a saw gunner and im only like 160 lbs lol
I read the book, amazing!!
Thank you for your service men welcome home.
Respect
Thanks to BRC for this amazing video of some bad ass dudes doing some bad ass shit in a horrible position I salute 3-61 and every enlisted n and officer on COP Keating y’all are my hero
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
Beautiful
1-32 QRF Baby, Keating was rough as fuck.
Were u in barge matal in 09??? I was in 371 cav attached to 132
RIP Specialist Griffin
Dam good presentation.
On the youtube channel dedicated to this battles, the mortar man has some harsh words for the medevacs, saying once the battle calmed down mid morning they could have made a attempt to get the wounded and to put it bluntly they were too scared.
Also come to find out after near being over run the same guys STAYED at the ruins of the bured out oupost for 3 more days before being relived.
He was seething, after fighting off 300 plus Taliban, losing so many guys and most of their weapons now nonop , their brass screwed em again!
Outstanding re cal of issue. But command is a failure.
These are the celebrities and superheroes i love ❤
True American hero's!! God bless those men.
God Bless these warriors. Curious...were any senior leadership personnel held accountable for putting that COP in an area that was indefensible???
Amen
Im a civi from the other side of the world, i blubbered like a child during this movie, the decisions made by comand to put that COP there turned my stomach. To the solsiers that made it home and the ones that didnt thankyou from the bottom of my heart for what you have done for us.
American warriors. You make us proud fellas
Afghanistan is the real warrior
one of the guys there was my CI during basic
Firstly the position of that FOB is absolutely ridiculous. The Afghans have been at war against invaders and each other centuries. Alexander the Great entered Afghanistan and the British were massacred in the 19th century. When the US entered Afghanistan the Taliban were at war instantly but also trained fighters from as far away as Chechnya
May God bless them all.❤🇺🇲🙏
The first battle that two different soldiers won the medal of Honor and both of them are still alive
Keating vet here, 173rd ABN. It was an indefensible shithole. Rest in peace Kirk, till we meet again.
SALUTE!
"Slow hand Salute....."
The dark side of the Moon that place you literally could be walking and then someone would pop up out of the ground like it was a scene from a Vietnam movie. There were spider holes and then you would walk by a bunker and you wouldn't know it was a bunker till you're standing in front of it and I just remember how terrifying you must have been to have been there during that gun fight
If it was anything like the move that was a TERRIBLE spot to be in.
You couldn’t get a “quick one” on mace? That’s what they did to me. I was wounded in 2009, and again in 2012. 2013 I lost my left foot and 3 fingers, and part of my left ear, and they couldn’t get a vein so they gave me a quick one. I was good but the fentanyl lollipop was making me sleepy, and my buddies kept giving me sternum rubs with my “quick one” in…. I can still feel that pain to this day 😂
These guys are some badass soldiers, who fought til the last moment, protecting their brothers, putting their lives at risk. Much respect~!
same with Restrepo,but who's bright idea was it to set up a COP at the bottom of the hill, surrounded by elevated fighting positions? that guy needs to never be in a leadership position.
Location reminds me of Fort Necessity in the war for independence 😳
...all for nothing. Taliban controls Afghanistan, with about $60 billion in US weaponry.
When I heard about this I just couldn’t believe it. Boots on the ground always knows more than some dick in an A/C office. RIP to all the fallen. Thank you for sharing you stories.
Oh snap, where is SFC hill at?
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What compelled a person to put that damn COP there? Christ
He survived 6 hours after taking a direct rpg blast that's insane.
He was left out there for 6 hours
@@REPR100 how long were those dudes in the humvee for?
@@a.N..... they hid out there for the whole battle
Cool beard
26:12 i feel worse for the people who never had a chance for children and a wife. Just parents who will pass and the childs memory forgotten.
What was the advantage of setting up a COP at this location? Bewildering.
My understanding is that while it was tactically a terrible location it was *strategically* in a good location to interrupt Taliban operations.
First? Weird. Okay let’s watch the video.
Why would "Weird" be the first thought that came into your brain before you decided to hit the play button because I think that's weird that even thought that in the first place.
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14:25 chinese Camo pattern and a Latvian Army jacket?
In my favorite quote from Inglorious Bastards -
Aldo Raine: You didn't say the Goddamn rendezvous was in a f***ing basement.
When the movie came out I was floored on the WTF element of being in a deep valley. The Marine who was the MOH recipient reminded me of myself as I was also an Army Nation Guard retread from the USMC, and the Army guys don't like Marines, tons of animosity. I stayed to myself as an NCO due to this element. Many of them didn't know anything about small teams special operations and all the fun stuff from the Marines. To find out that Ranger school was less than our special operations training really p'd them off. Just tons of jealousy from Army guys.
National Guard… shocker
They were active duty scouts. Not national guard.
Watch the movie outpost
After so many outposts and bases being ambushed and under siege and also being completely overrun, why did they put Cop Keating here in the bottom a valley? I am not even military and the whole outpost location is stupidly positioned. Anyone say "Dien Bien Phu" or Khe Sanh , Lima Site 85??????
It’s insane the positions they put us in in north eastern Afghanistan it’s like some colonel had a frisbee flew around in a helicopter and wherever it landed that’s where he wanted a base at the bottom of 10 12,000 foot mountains very steep mountains and then at the base you’d have two squads two and the base was only supplied by helicopters no vehicles. Where these guys where is much the same.
Why did a journalist tell this story instead of these fine men?