Siklos and Smiley: Our own call to duty – in honor of the men and women who serve

The drone footage shows various parts of the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's compound in northern Syria; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon. At sunrise on the Friday before the killing of notorious ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, our 11th Armored Blackhorse unit boarded four Black Hawk helicopters and flew in formation across the silent desert. Soon we landed near a town called Razish with reports of enemy ISIS combatants in place. Our Special Forces operation had officially begun. We drove a few miles to base camp in darkness and waited for our commanding officer to brief us.