When you’re in that situation, those heightened moments, did you feel like you had a chance to think at all? One, two, I don’t know-a million lifetimes. I think he got shot in the calf and in the thigh. On the third grenade we threw, we made it to Specialist Franklin Eckrode, and he was trying to fix his jam. So we threw our grenades and we ran forward. Talking about it I can rehash and I can think about every second of it and everything in my mind and I can really dwell on it when, at the time, there’s no time to dwell on it. That’s what makes talking about it so difficult. In hindsight, it’s scarier than it was then. If a bullet hit my plate, I would freak out. They bounce off of shit, but they don’t turn corners, and that one would have had to turn a corner to come and hit me like that, and there’s nothing you can do about it. I got hit in the plate, but in the lower part of the plate, and I got hit at an angle that it came more from the north and not from the east, which is where all these bullets were coming from, and bullets don’t turn corners. You can see bullets around you going off and. It looks like a bunch of little dragons spitting fire, and then there’s just a whole bunch of rounds coming in. All your attention is where all the flashes are. When did you know it was an L-shaped ambush? Everyone’s just giving it back as hard as we can, because the more we shoot, hopefully the less they shoot. It’s just all self-preservation at that point. This is a newer experience, and this is a different way that it’s ever come in, but everyone knows exactly what they need to do. This isn’t our first rodeo, and this isn’t everyone’s first time getting shot at. They were close-as close as I’ve ever seen. They’re above you, in front of you, behind you, below you.
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A wall of bullets at every one at the same time with one crack and then a million other cracks afterwards. There were more bullets in the air than stars in the sky. So we started walking back, and they set up a good ambush. Rock Avalanche was a long, drawn-out deal. See, I try to forget a lot of this-it benefits me in the long run-and coming back and talking about it wrenches the gut. We came in under darkness, and we’re going to leave right there as the sun’s going down and Apaches are around-should be fairly quick and painless. We were walking back out the way we came in, in the morning. I know they got guns, and they got eyes from above. That’s pretty sweet, you know? I know they got rockets. You get a warm-fuzzy feeling inside when you see the Apache circling. It was going to come regardless of what I heard. What had you heard about the Korengal before you went? They’re at the strongest moments of their life and it is just But it’s another thing to see an American soldier, or someone you know. that hit one of the trucks in the company from Third Platoon-four guys died and one guy was seriously wounded. Was there a particular event that happened there that made you realize you’d grown up?Īugust 21, 2005, there was an I.E.D. I know I became a man in Afghanistan-whatever entails being a man-there was definitely a change that happened that first time in Afghanistan where I grew up. I don’t know exactly the one thought that was running through my head.
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I’d keep that quiet around some people-offer me a free T-shirt, I might do something crazy. When I was working at Subway, I was working nights-and the commercial came on about the recruiters in the mall handing out T-shirts. Tim Hetherington: Let’s start at the beginning. Giunta sat down with Hetherington and spoke at length about the medal and his service in Afghanistan. Hetherington also wrote a book about his time in the Korengal, Infidel, and he and Junger’s documentary Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. While on assignment with contributing editor Sebastian Junger-who wrote a book about Giunta and his platoon, War- Hetherington was with a platoon near Giunta’s in the Korengal during Operation Rock Avalanche. Vanity Fair contributing photographer Tim Hetherington spotlights Giunta in the December issue. On November 16, Giunta will be the first living soldier since the Vietnam War to receive America’s highest honor, when it is awarded by President Obama at the White House. Had it not been for Giunta, it would have likely been more, if not all, of the platoon. In October of 2007, during Operation Rock Avalanche, an ambush of at least a dozen Taliban fighters attacked Giunta’s company and left two of his fellow soldiers dead. Photograph by Tim Hetherington.Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, an area called the Valley of Death.
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