This is four minutes in the life of a United States Marine who is being shot at by the Taliban in Afghanistan. If you didn't know already, now you kind of know what it's like.

This is an awesome compilation video. Put together, it shows four minutes of what it was like being deployed in a kinetic area of operations in Afghanistan. This video will take you from the funny points, down to the low points, all the way back around to the end where your fist-bumping little kids just trying to live their lives.

You'll never know unless you've actually experienced it, but this video is about as close as you can get to the reality of the situation on the ground.