America Has Moved on From Afghanistan, Veterans Haven't

How a Marine's call led to a 60 Minutes story 
60 Minutes
March 12, 2015

"America seems to have moved on from Afghanistan. If you ask most people, they don't know that we still have men and women serving there," Schuster said.

In 2009, a story about Golf Company Marines aired on 60 Minutes. Two months later, the producer got a phone call from a Marine -- and he knew the story wasn't over

60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster first met the men of Golf Company in 2009 when he and Scott Pelley embedded with the unit in Afghanistan for three weeks.

They were there when the Marines first came to grips with the terrible loss of seven of their men, killed trying to clear and hold the Taliban stronghold.

Two months after the report aired, Schuster's phone rang -- and he knew that the story wasn't over. One of the Marines of Golf Company, Devin Jones, was on the line.

"And Devin is calling me to tell me he can't sleep," Schuster tells 60 Minutes Overtime. "He's really having trouble adjusting. It's just been horrible since he's been back.

He doesn't say the words post-traumatic stress disorder, but everything he's describing sounds like PTSD."

Five years after that call, 60 Minutes filmed a reunion of Golf Company Marines for a follow-up segment called "Coming Home." Schuster wanted to know what had become of the men since they'd returned.

For Jones, his grief over the loss of his comrades is always with him. read more here