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In March 2002, during a battle called Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, a Navy Seal falls from a helicopter as it attempts to land on a mountaintop controlled by al Qaeda fighters. This is the untold story of the soldiers who were sent in to find him and bring him home. Stone Phillips presents a minute-by-minute account of what those soldiers faced when their own chopper was shot down. Phillips interviews many of the soldiers involved, from the ground troops to the general in command, who acknowledges the flawed plans and failed communications that led to the events on Roberts Ridge. A heavy price was paid on that remote mountaintop, but the U.S. soldiers' pledge to never leave a fallen comrade was never in question.