every American needs to watch

It WAS great wasn't it!

I highly recommend it also.

"RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military."

http://restrepothemovie.com/
 
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It's sitting on our kitchen table, fresh in from Netflix.
 
Best my best friend served in the Korengal Valley directly after those guys left. It is quiet simply one of the most dangerous pieces of terrain in the entire world for a U.S. Soldier. It has now been abandoned by U.S. forces because it has not tactical value to justify the lives being lost there. Let them hold onto a useless piece of ground.
 
timcsaw said:
Yur' gonna' like it.

Tough language... but there it is.
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lol that's just how infantry boys talk. afghanistan is no joke. fighting in the mountains is horrible. i have never been to the korengal valley but i been all over the chora valley, helmand province, zabul province to kick it in the chalakor valley. literally every where you go and however you get there, there will be thousands of ambush spots along the way and most of the time some taliban are waiting in at least one of them

that was a very good documentary. very well put together film
 
jamesmtl said:
I'll watch it if Canadians should...
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i would say the canadians should watch it. you all are one of the bigger forces over there besides America.

i remember when we were over there we use to have to go on a ton of missions and assist w/ FOB ORION. it was mostly the canadians and they had started a new strategy for when they were attacked. often the taliban would run out in to the poppy fields or fields of weed and hide. the canadians started setting the fields on fire and just waiting on the other side. was a brilliant plan imo except the taliban doesn't own the fields the farmers do (and it's there only source of money to feed their family). in turn it caused the farmers to turn on the canadians also. we went for multiple missions and raids to help out and we noticed the people we were fighting were not the usual taliban folks. after a couple meeting w/ the village elders everything got figured out. i will post up some pics of the fields in stuff here in a second.

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it was good, there should have been a camera crew in the taliban ranks filming the same thing. and they could have played both films simultaneously on one screen split in two.....

then maybe people would get it.
 
grunt soldier said:
i would say the canadians should watch it. you all are one of the bigger forces over there besides America.

i remember when we were over there we use to have to go on a ton of missions and assist w/ FOB ORION. it was mostly the canadians and they had started a new strategy for when they were attacked. often the taliban would run out in to the poppy fields or fields of weed and hide. the canadians started setting the fields on fire and just waiting on the other side. was a brilliant plan imo except the taliban doesn't own the fields the farmers do (and it's there only source of money to feed their family). in turn it caused the farmers to turn on the canadians also. we went for multiple missions and raids to help out and we noticed the people we were fighting were not the usual taliban folks. after a couple meeting w/ the village elders everything got figured out. i will post up some pics of the fields in stuff here in a second.

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Cowards!...
 
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