'Restrepo' Soldiers Reflect On Surviving Afghan Outpost -- Stars and Stripes/The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio (MCT)
The Korengal Valley in Afghanistan wasn’t an easy a place to stay healthy.
From May 2007 to June 2008, the men of 2nd Platoon, Battle Company of the 173rd Army Airborne Brigade held the remote Outpost Restrepo, named after PFC Juan Restrepo, the platoon medic who had been killed in action.
And if you weren’t there — well, you just don’t know what it was like.
“Growing up, I always had that imagination of what war would be like,” said Nicholas Chisenhall, who was deployed to the outpost for five of those months. “You get there, and it’s completely different.”
Living with the platoon were two journalists — Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, who recorded the soldiers’ patrols, firefights, exhilaration and sadness.
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My Comment: A fantastic documentary .... if you have the chance .... see it. On a side note .... for those who do not know .... Tim Hetherington, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo .... was killed in Misurata, Libya, in 2011 while covering the Libyan civil war.
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