Video captures an American soldier getting caught in gunfire with the Taliban in Afghanistan. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By Eric Zuckerman, NBC News
A dramatic video posted Wednesday on YouTube shows a U.S. soldier surviving a firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan?s Kunar Province.
The video, which was captured by a camera mounted to the soldier?s helmet, shows the cameraman pinned down by machine gun fire, getting shot several times and yelling, ?I?m hit! I?m hit!?
?I got hit a total of four times,? the cameraman wrote in his description of the video, which was provided to NBC News by the curator of a YouTube channel originally started to share about 100 videos from his own tour in Afghanistan and which now posts videos submitted by other combat veterans. The video was also posted on the Facebook page for Military Minds, an organization that aims to raise awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The source was unable to provide any other details beyond the cameraman?s own description of the event:
?I was heading down the face of the hill when we got hit. The rest of the squad was pinned down by machine gun fire. I didn?t start the video until a few minutes into the firefight for obvious reasons. I came out into the open to draw fire so my squad could get to safety. I was hit in the side of my helmet and my [camera] was shot off of my face.?
At? another point in the video, a round of ammunition knocks the soldier?s rifle out of his hands.
?When I picked the rifle back up, it was still functional, but the grenade launcher tube had a nice-sized 7.52-calliber bullet hole in it,? he wrote.
The soldier said that none of the rounds penetrated his body armor and that he made it home with no permanent injuries.
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