Just checked out out the movie "Restrepo" via Netflix streaming last night. It is a very intense documentary about a year spent with the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan.

If anyone has an interest in the topic, the movie will not disappoint.

As an aside, one of the dudes in it looks a lot like Robbo.

-AP

It was an intense documetary....worth seeing.

Added.

Thanks for the heads up.

Pretty powerful stuff. Glad to have watched it. Hope I never have to go to war.

Good book.

I am a few chapters into the book by Junger after my son read it. Good book (thanks Richard).

I thought it was nice seeing how much those guys cared for each other. I wish we didn't have to send them there. Only one friend of mine is still over there.

Horse Soldiers is another good read.. . .details the initial push into Afghanistan by a group of SF guys. . . . Another that I found interesting although not as good was Not a Good Day to DIe, covering operation Anaconda, also in Afghanistan several years later.

I found the difference in techniques and attitudes between the two operations interesting and a bit frustrating. . .the original guys had the formula down pretty good, then as usual politics and egos got in the way of the work that needed to happen on the ground. .. . . IMHO

War should not be restrained.

You'll have to read Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Nayler.

The authors a Stars and Stripes reporter who's been in the Army forever so it's an awesome insiders account.

Co-worker just got back from a year of Officers training for the Reserves and this was required reading.

I'll have to check out the movie and some of these books.

Dogfish:
Retrained or restrained?

Thanks Dave. It should not be restrained.

If I could ask one favor, it would be that the title on the thread be corrected, as the firebase was named in honor of one of the soldiers in the program who died in a firefight. thanks.

Makes much better sense with the typo fixed Andy. . . ..

BB, I like Horse Soldiers better. . . .the other had a bit to much backstory on all the Hi end Brass for me. .. .I liked the story of the action on the ground. . . guess that's cause I was/am a grunt at heart .. .. . .

Totally missed that, Dogfish, and believe I got it corrected. Certainly no disrespect was intended.

-AP

I know you didn't do it on purpose. I make typo's all teh time.