Totally missed this movie in the past. It hit my radar this week so we watched it last night. Movies like this should be mandatory viewing for high school history. Our military is incredible.

If you've not seen it, and are looking for a good one this Veteran's Day weekend, give it a watch.

I believe this is the one where we had an FOB at the bottom of a canyon with horrific slight lines and visibility?

Good movie and I'm not military strategist but that seems blatantly dumb to put a base where we did.

Text after the movie said Army higher ups were reprimanded for the decision.

wcb said:

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Text after the movie said Army higher ups were reprimanded for the decision.

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https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/army_releases_report_on_combat.php

Here's the executive summary of the US Army investigation (no details on consequences) for those who are interested. Four would be reprimanded IIRC, Of note in there, is the lack of ISR for COP Keating that was diverted for a "missing" soldier, which was PFC Bergdahl.

ISR, for those who may be unfamiliar, is the assets needed to see and understand the battlespace and something America is insanely good at and our ultimate edge in warfare. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The "eye in the sky" if you will and others.

This is COP Keating. What an unbelievably bad tactical position with a mere platoon to hold it. Especially with limited ISR assets. There is cockpit footage of the responding Apache support floating around out there somewhere and it is extremely sobering.



Afghanistan was such a ****show.

Someone in the Army:

Wow, this spot is pretty. Let's put the base here.

But sir, this is massively vulnerable to enemy fire, flanking, suppression, and elevation.

Yeah, but it's pretty. Let's build.