My name is Life Babin.

I was a lieutenant, a platoon commander of Charlie Platoon at Seal Team three.

Tasking a bruiser right away.

We want to take our performance the next level.

So we trained harder than anybody ever every type of operation you could think of out in the deserts, you know, shooting our weapons, patrolling on foot, jumping out of planes.

And we had an awesome group of guys that were just fired up, ready to go get after it.

We just had a solid level of trust across the board, up and down the chain of command.

It's not about actually doing the skills and all the the tactics perfectly.

It's about knowing each other.

And that's where everything really gels.

Were you with these guys?

24 7 um, for months at a time.

Is it is family.

It's the same thing.

It's a group of friends that hang out together, live together, work together, work out together, go out together and do everything together.

That's that's what's your petunias?

Markley joined our platoon after we've been working together for about six months.

Right away.

You could tell you had kind of a presence about him.

You knew he was.

He was a smart guy, Hardworking, very strong Christian guys.

Faith is very important to him.

He came in and he's just a big dude.

Quiet, humble, you know, pretty fun loving, you know, like to have a good time.

Me and Mark were in the same boat crew going through buds in hell week and all of that stuff.

You really get to know people when people are mad and tired and hungry.

You'd always be making jokes.

Didn't matter how how much we're hurting.

He was just absolutely hilarious.

He like to push the envelope myself.

Mark showed up Discharge opportunity very boldly stated that, uh, I've never been choked out before.

And so Chris, Kyle on da a couple other guys immediately helped him out to make sure that that that was not the case.

Mark immediately was one of us and a big part of our platoon from Iraq.

Tonight we have an exclusive look at what has become the single most dangerous city in that country for U s forces an hour west of Baghdad, terrorists hold the city of Ramadi in a deadly grip, fueling the insurgency and taking a terrible toll on the several 1000 American troops who are trying to hold them at bay.

In 2006 Ramadi was the worst part of Iraq capital.

Val Anwar province, the biggest state in Iraq, was a total war zone we were facing in what I would deem as evil in enemy is the U.

S.

Has ever faced dental.

The enemy was identified as a Q.

I Al Qaeda Iraq.

You're talking about some of the same people who are now Isis when you see the kind of things that they do to people and just the torture and rape and murder talking people into becoming suicide bombers, anyone that stood against them.

I mean, they're gonna cut their head off and make an example out of them, and they're absolutely brutal and ruthless.

And Ramadi was kind of the epicenter of their their insurgency ready first strategy of seasonal whole bill was about going into the worst enemy held areas, seizing those areas, building a permanent combat outpost on, then moving out into enemy territory from.

They're taking them back one neighborhood at a time.

It was a radical strategy.

There were people who thought that was crazy Course for us.

We initially thought, How can we get into the zeros?

Right?

Cause if that's what the bad guys are, that's where we can have the most impact.

We've gotten some Bradleys with First house cleared it.

Uh, no problem there.

I got back in the Bradleys.

We went to the next place.

Park looks over.

He's like, Hey, I'll race you to the door.

Three raced to the door and a winning.

I go in the first room on, uh, he goes down to the end of the hallway.

And as we moved into that building, we started taking fire from an adjacent building.

Will start flying down, Always coming out of the first room.

Life was standing right in front of me.

He jumped into me, hit me, knocked me back into the room.

He may have seen my life.

I don't know if I'd walked out in the hallway.

I might have gotten hit because he ended up getting hit in the Latin by one of those rounds.

And so Mark stepped up in the window to engage and me from enemy fighters protected guys behind him and was struck way.

Evacuated him as a casually said our foreman with him, you know, Corman trying to do his best almost work on him.

But, uh, hey, even shop ahead and killed instantly and there was nothing I could do about it was it was terrific.

Absolutely terrific.

All right.

I was in the tactical operations center that morning.

Leaf got on one of the cops radios and called with so much emotion in his voice that it almost sounded emotionless.

Said we had another casualty.

I think he's Kay killed in action.

This radio net was monitored by the entire brigade, So we were both doing our best to remain professional to prevent names of casualties from leaking out.

We do not use names on the radio.

Roger.

Who is the casualty?

There was a pause, and then he responded, Charlie 14 I looked up at the board slowly.

I didn't want to see the name, but there it waas Charlie 14 Markley, you have to figure out what would we do wrong?

And sometimes there is no answer for that.

So why Why did you get killed?

Go.

Probably could have been me.

It could have been anybody.

You know.

He just was there doing his job like a good frog man, You know, that's it.

E always wonder what would have happened had he gone in the door first.

What?

I have had the courage, you know, do what he did for himself in harm's way to protect these guys.

I want to say yes.

But you never know till you're there.

Crease thing to think about for me, The whole effort.

Ramadi.

People that lost their lives there and got wounded and killed.

I knew.

I knew they were Phil.

I can't get back.

Markley.

He's my brother.

Just like all my other brothers died in Iraq in Afghanistan.

But we made an impact when we left towards the end of October.

Did cops all over the place now.

So they had a really good foothold.

We won and Ramadi And in a place that, uh, nobody thought we could win.

Ramadi was one of the safest places in Iraq for almost seven years.

It remained that way.

And, uh, and we know the form that we can win again.

Barclay was absolutely one of those guys who knew that he could get shot killed at any time.

And he went out and did his job every single day, knowing that could happen any time, fearlessly because he knew is making a difference and believed in what he was doing.

When you are lucky enough to experience a war, you can get very jaded because you can see that human beings can be abhorrent creatures, and you can begin to question if there's really any good at all.

And it can become dark, especially when it is your job to, in some sense, grow that darkness.

Mark approved that there was light and good, and maybe it was hard to see that in his life.

But for some unknown reason or reason, that's beyond understanding.