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Oz Geist took a second round, this time to the arm, shattering the bone. Tig was hit in the back by a piece of shrapnel. But they didn’t stop. They couldn’t. They dragged Rone’s body inside, covered him with a flag, and went back to the wall.

The CIA Annex was bulldozed. The bodies of Rone Woods and Glen Doherty were returned to their families. And the surviving GRS—Silva, Geist, Tiegen—went back to quiet lives, their hands never quite clean of the smell of cordite and smoke.

The GRS piled into two unarmored vehicles—the "War Wagon" (a battered Toyota pickup with a DShK heavy machine gun welded to the bed) and a Chevrolet Suburban. As they tore out of the Annex gates, the night erupted. Gunfire ricocheted off the asphalt. The smell of cordite and burning trash filled the cabin. HD13 Hours- The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Seven Americans had survived only because a handful of former special operators refused to abandon them.

Minutes bled. The radio screamed: Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith, a communications specialist, were trapped in the burning safe house. The attackers—a coalition of al-Qaeda-linked militants and Ansar al-Sharia—were pouring through the gates, armed with PKM machine guns, RPG-7s, and diesel-soaked rags. Oz Geist took a second round, this time

"Regret?" Oz said slowly. "No. I regret we couldn’t get there faster. I regret the politicians who left us hanging. But the men I fought with? They are the best of America. We weren’t heroes. We were just… the ones who showed up."

In the weeks and months that followed, the story of Benghazi was twisted into political theater. Hearings, investigations, and accusations flew across cable news. But no committee ever called the GRS to testify about their courage. They were secret soldiers—off the books, invisible to the Pentagon, ineligible for the Purple Hearts they had earned in blood. They couldn’t

The explosion was deafening. Shrapnel tore through his chest and neck. He fell backward off the roof, landing in a pool of his own blood. Silva and Oz rushed to him. Silva put pressure on the wound, but he could feel Rone’s pulse fluttering, then slowing. "Stay with me, brother," Silva whispered. Rone’s eyes, wide and clear, looked up at the Libyan sky. He tried to say something—maybe his daughter’s name—but only blood came out. Then he was gone.