Scene Summary
Wilkinson and Fales are at Wolcott's crash site. They try to get his body out of the helicopter, and found it impossible. The other men, who are about two blocks up, keep getting grenades dropped on them. He dropped about seven and they were all duds. Howe starts to throw grenades at this enemy. There is still a lot of gunfire on this street. Perino and his men found a small shed, and stayed there for a while. Smith got hit. He was hit in the pelvic area. He was bleeding really badly because the bullet had hit a major artery. There were so many wounded in Perino's group they had to stop and find a place to stay. Schmid worked frantically to try to save Smith. He had to reach up in his wound to try to pinch the artery that was hit. He couldn't find it. He tried to get a humvuee for him, but there was just now way to get one out.
A grenade exploded by SqMMiqp and Heard. Stebbins although he was alright, had sustained some injuries. A medic helped him limp back into a room where there were other wounded men. When Stebbins got in there he found out that Rodriguez got shot where no man would ever want to get shot. Stebbins had a chunk of metal in his foot and the whole lower half of his body was burned. Wilkinson gave him a tablet of Perococet, a rifle, and told him to guard a window. About a block and a half south of there men were David Floyd and his men. Across a gunfire-filled road were the other members of chalk three. Floyd and DeJesus ran across to get to them. They both made it safely. About an hour earlier up at the base, the trucks that were carrying injured and dead unloaded. There were a lot of wounded people. Nurses from different hospitals close by came to help. The men who were close to death, and beyond help were sent outside. They were put in a cool ambulance that was out of view. Philla was there already. Kowalewski was another man who was exempt. Two soldiers went and detonated the grenade that was plunged inside Kowalewski. Back in the fight, DiTomasso and Chalk Two were still trying to get to a Black Hawk crash site.
Steele and his men moved into a courtyard. There was shooting, grenade blasts, helicopters, radio calls, men screaming, crying, and groaning. It was an ear splitting din. Steele is still trying to find out where all his men are. Steele asked for a Black Hawk to evacuate Smith. He was going to die if he didn't get out of there now. They said they probably couldn't get one in. Schmid tried to get blood for Smith, but there wasn't any in the supplies that the headquarters had sent. Smith was telling Schmid to tell his family and friends goodbye, and that he had been thinking of them as he died. Schmid told him to hang on. Smith continued to get worse. They said they could probably get a Black Hawk in to get Smith and Rodriguez, but not long after this Smith started to hyperventilate. His heart stopped. Schmid tried everything to bring him back. It was now use because he was gone. Schmid was crushed by Smith's death. He didn't tell anyone when it happened. There was another chalk a little ways away form there men. Waddell was really calm. During all this fighting he was worried about getting back to the base to finish his book. He was also worried about a physical fitness test he was supposed to take the following day. Waddell and those men needed a much bigger space. They had too many wounded. The rescue convoy is going to get everyone out of there.