"It is almost as if God cleared a path for us, but that path didn't make my life any easier," he says. "I do not want to expose myself, but I don't want to fail my comrades even more" He recalls the moment when two Afghan soldiers were ambushed by an assault team. The first man had lost both of his legs at the quads and was in bad shape. They evaporated into a pink mist like Jake Gownhall's character in Jarhead.