OP RESTREPO

[ZonieDiver]

Somebody smack Dozer, he's skipped a groove.

(Apologies to the young with no "wax trax" experience...)

[Geenie]

A Special Forces soldier advertising Farmville dollars??

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

Somebody smack Dozer, he's skipped a groove.

(Apologies to the young with no "wax trax" experience...)

Ow. . . Thanks. May I have another?

Originally Posted by Geenie

A Special Forces Soldier advertising Farmville dollars??

Am not. Co-incidental information. Be still, the heck with you . . . I'm gonna go watch BayWatch (They have all of 'um on NetFlix!)

[Pete]

Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer Reportedly Killed In Libya


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-h...#ixzz1K5CIZG5v

"................But there are reports that photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros have been killed in Libya........................"

[Gypsy]

That's a shame. RIP.

[Guy]

Originally Posted by mpower

His death is a shame. The bigger shame is American forces leaving that area.

RIP however, American forces should be ashamed of what?

Stay safe.

[sarge1022]

I thought the film was okay. I actually enjoyed the interview a lot more. Founder of IAVA, Paul Rieckhoff interviews Sebastian Junger about the movie and his experiences in the Korengal.

http://www.booktv.org/Program/11604/...Rieckhoff.aspx

[charlietwo]

Originally Posted by Guy

RIP however, American forces should be ashamed of what?

I believe he was referring to the final minutes of the documentary before the credits it states that we've pulled out of that part of the Korengal Valley in 2009. That was by far the most painful moment of the documentary, and it was a rough one to watch.

A part that got me and really contrasted Conventional vs Unconventional was the officer saying 'I really didn't research my area much. I wanted to go in with a clean slate' or something to that affect. Foolish at best... foolish.

Excellent glimpse of reality however. It would be nice if it were mandatory viewing in high schools across the country, but that couldn't happen in this PC environment.

[Saturation]

Article on-line:
Restrepo director and journalist Sebastian Junger is producing a three-part series that uses footage he and Tim Hetherington shot in Afghanistan for the Oscar-nominated film—and he’s also producing an HBO documentary about Hetherington’s life. (Tim died in Libya earlier this year.)

The series’ “focus will be on the characters at [Outpost] Restrepo, rarther than the troops and the deployment. So it’s more about each of the individual soldiers' stories. Tim and Sebastian were there on-and-off for 15 months, so we have close to 300 hours of footage. Basically, it will be all new footage,” executive producer Nick Quested told RealScreen. He said that the new documentary “film is about Tim — his life, his work and ultimately his death — but it’s really about his philosophy. Tim had this idea he was working on about youth in conflict, and how the stereotypes in America popular culture transcended to the front lines of conflict zones; how young men are driven to conflicts, and why they are driven to conflicts.”

The magazine reports that the documentary will debut on HBO “on April 20, 2012“ the first anniversary of Hetherington’s death,” and that producers “are presently in talks with an undisclosed U.S. broadcaster for the series.”

[MtnGoat]

Originally Posted by charlietwo

A part that got me and really contrasted Conventional vs Unconventional was the officer saying 'I really didn't research my area much. I wanted to go in with a clean slate' or something to that affect. Foolish at best... foolish.

We have a copy of it here, I watched it too. Good film overall. This statement is so frinkin ture!! Conventional mindset is missed up IMHO.

At times we thought the whole platoon thought the same way the CPT did.