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Brent Morel and Willie Copeland understood each other. Copeland was a sergeant leading three other marines, while Morel was a captain commanding a platoon of 24. But Morel had been an enlisted man before he got his officer's commission. "Morel understood what it meant to be a young marine coming up, and he understood the platoon from the ground up," Copeland recalled in an interview with National Journal. "And he would always say that he was a scrapper."

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