He was a faceless, nameless soldier when the video made waves online last  fall.

A camera mounted onto his helmet captured a shootout with Taliban forces in  Afghanistan — the gunfire rattling across the rocky hillside before the soldier  screamed out in pain.

“I’m hit! I’m hit!” he yelled before the camera died.

Now, that soldier — Pfc. Ted Daniels — has come forward to talk about the  video that garnered more than 23.3 million views on YouTube since it was posted  on Sept. 26.

“I don’t know if I held it together, but I tried to,” he told The Washington Post in a report published online  Friday. “I put my ass on the line for other guys. I still functioned even though  I was scared to death.”

The 37-year-old father of two was like countless other combat soldiers who’ve  documented fighting overseas with video cameras.

Helmet-cams are permitted in some military units, and Afghanistan is perhaps  the most-videotaped war in history thanks to cameras attached to just about  every piece of U.S. military equipment available.

 

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