The best line in the movie is when CPT Keating walks into the TOC, and nobody is paying attention to him. He taps his rank and asks, "Is this on? Is this working?". That is the military in a nutshell.

Our deployment dog was named "Daisy". Imagine like a small, short-haired Golden Retriever mutt. She had a brother who was identical that we'd named Captain, but the MPs rounded up all the dogs on base, including Captain, to kill them because they said some were rabid. We hid Daisy in the TOC so she survived, then got an NGO to have her sent back to the States where one of our FET sergeant's family adopted her. I got a counseling statement and extra duty for hiding Daisy, but whoopity doo.

Friend of my fathers was telling a story about how units in Vietnam would adopt dogs similar to Hank because they hated the Vietnamese. They were just kept around as food for them. So when Americans fed them and took care of them they became extremely protective and were great for early warnings of the enemy.

Nephew of the real Ty Carter here. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the movie

At my first duty station I was in the 60mm mortar section in the weapons platoon of a rifle company. We had a guy who was a complete goof, no common sense, but he was an artist with that mortar. Once when we went to a range we saw a brand new target out there, an old half-track that hadn't been shot up yet. The machine gunners got set up first and started hitting it - we could hear their rounds hitting but couldn't really see them. We had two mortar squads, so we had two of our three guns with us. The goofball was gunning on the second gun. The lieutenant went over and told him, "I want you to nail the driver of that half-track." The guy fired one quick round to adjust and hit about five yards from the vehicle. He tweaked the bipod and fired his second round - it landed on the hood of the vehicle and blew out the windshield. He turned around and told the lieutenant, "There you go, Ell Tee." The lieutenant shook his head and said, "Nah, he ducked. Try again." The kid looked at the lieutenant for a second, then went back, made another tiny tweak to the bipod, and fired again. The round hit in the front seat and we saw the steering wheel sailing through the air. He looked up at the lieutenant and said, "Did he duck that one, sir?" Another time there was a water bull out there with the top hatch open. On his second round, the same guy dropped a round inside the water bull. He was never going to get above lance corporal because he was totally lacking in judgment and constantly did stupid things. But he could play that mortar like a fiddle.

We were mostly Scouts 19Ds at Keating. Some Marine attachments, ANA and other combat elements. Captain Yllescas was an Awesome leader. We were there 08-09. We did have TRPs around the FOB. It was a shit hole and so many TICs. Thank you for your videos.

This was my unit. I was at Keating for a few months and left six weeks before Oct 3 to go back up to Squadron (Cav Battalion). Your IDF tactics were slightly off. But we did have planned targets (Putting Green, Northface, Diving Board). We also had a B-10 that would harass and probe us almost daily, and the mortars couldn’t get him. Trying to adjust indirect fires on to a shallow peak or ridge takes a lot of finesse.

As a former PSYOPER, I concur 100% with you on the “transactions” during KLEs. Shit used to piss me off so bad when they’d be pissing on your leg while telling you it’s raining.

I found in my 3 or 4 years as a 18Z that most team Commanders defer to the 18Z but the LT's always wanted to show their competence by taking over the 18Z's command. That's why SF went with WO's as assistant team leaders, more experience and maturity levels. We found that most WO's were prior NCO's to start their carriers!

It’s crazy how civilians thought the taliban fighters were dumb. They may have less tech than the US but by no means are they dumb. This fight shows this all to well. It was coordinated and well thought out. Really enjoyed this movie and it’s nice seeing guys that experienced similar things commenting on how accurate it is.

We need more of these. Also speaking of dogs, mine passed away today. Had her 16 years. Got her as a 4th grader and she was still here when i ETS.

Ed Faulkner was my cousin, I was so excited to hear that he would be portrayed in the movie. He unfortunately passed not too long after coming home.

The main motor guy in the movie was playing himself. His name is Daniel Rodriguez. After the Army he played football for Clemson and in 2014 was signed as a free agent to the St Louis Rams. Pretty dope story. I ran into him in Nashville last year and talked to him for awhile at the He’s a good dude

I heard a story from I think Vietnam (modern day), where two soldiers had a fight, and they made them hug each other in front of everyone for like a really long time, like hours.

I watched this movie with my wife. When I saw the STUPID place the outpost was located, I was yelling at the screen, “This is why I got out of the Army!” We signed up for a job, which will likely be dangerous at some point, I get it, fine. But putting all of our lives in danger for no f*ing reason is what always made me get out after 8 years. And they keep doing it again and again. My outpost in Bosnia was basically the Bosnian version of the same thing. Luckily no one attacked us.

Damn I was hoping they’d react to the scene in the TOC when cpt keating was trynna get everyone’s attention and he tapped his rank and said “is this thing working ?” And a soldier said “army made it, nope”

The outpost is probably the best depiction of how life is in the army while on deployment. From the dumbshit we did on our downtime to patrolling and army terminologies. This movie really got it down as far as OIF and OEF depiction. If you were regular army or military you would really appreciate this movie for how authentic it is. That outpost from a strategic stand point made no sense what so ever.

Having Ptsd i get powerful anxiety and a shit feeling in general at night some times this channel seems to instantly calm me down and make me feel better i appreciate that

When I was in Afghanistan from '17-'18, I was attached to a different battalion from my brigade, so I wasn't there to witness this, but one of my closest buddies told me that pretty much the entire staff of the DFAC on their FOB was fired because one of the workers got caught using a cell phone to correct mortar fire. My FOB was pretty much quiet in terms of what happened within the wire, but we hosted a lot of medevac for the Afghans who were working in the area around us.

Re: Pets in the army, my grandfather was in the 22nd bombardment group during WW2. He told stories of how when they were in the Philippines the locals would bring puppies to the soldiers who would just love to have pets, they would get these puppies all fat and loved up then the locals would come back...take the puppies, and give them new ones. Eventually they realized that the whole point was to fatten the dogs up to be eaten and they stopped taking the puppies after that.

This movie has always reminded me of my time at FOB St Michael. Great review boys! I really like this movie. Abel had me dying with the hand joke! 🤣😂🤣😂

Brought my deployment dog "Dosier" home from Iraq in 2010. he was the best dog ever, he definitely wanted me to remember him. He passed away on my birthday September 13, 2022. I miss him everyday. 😢

I've been watching for a long time, finally ordered Rising Above, soo excited to start the read tomorrow! Thanks for another great video.

Definitely the most realistic movie I’ve seen to date on OEF/OIF.

The movie did the best they could without loosing the audience. The book this movie was based off of had multiple interviews with family members, emails and added information for better context. Definitely worth a read. Clint Romesha (Medal of Honor recipient) wrote a book called Red Platoon about his experience. I recommend them both.

Love these reviews and hearing from your experiences. Thank you for your service gentleman!!! 🙏🏼

Was a student at Clemson when this name "daniel rodriguez" started to pop up as a walk-on football player who was former military. he was one of the guys in this movie, I believe he was cast as himself in this. Quite an incredible story, some of his football tapes are still out there and, with Clemson's military tradition, was honored in a game for it. if i remember correctly, he wanted to play college ball because he and a friend of his that was killed in this battled talked about it while out there.

I laughed so hard when you talked about distinguishing the difference between incoming and out going rounds. That is so true. I remember many of nights playing dominoes or spades a new guy would panic because he heard something. We would be like sit your ass down. That was outgoing.

Love your channel. Love all the side bar from the experiences you two went through. Keep up great work

The dogs in Nepal are often territorial. What happens is that dogs get left or get lost away from their territory and then will tag along with people when they’re passing through. That way they don’t get attacked by the dogs whose territory they’re crossing through. Once they get to their territory, they often leave. It’s a pretty common story for climbers and trekkers. There’s a pretty good chance that this is what happened with Hank.

When you set up a base you set up a fires plan. You put out target reference points around the camp which are already dialed in with elevation, deflection and charge. You will also have a final protective fire plan set up, this is when all else fails and you must bring in fire close to or into friendly lines. I was a mortarman, loved the job. We had one of the best mortar teams in the 7th ID and 9th Inf Regt. The wheel Buck is talking about is a plotting board. Since they only have one type of mortar system in a static location, it would be extremally easy to have these things dialed in as well. I have not done this since the 90s. I shot 60's or M224. "High Angle Hell, death and destruction from above",

The part at the end with Carter talking to the head shrinker absolutely destroyed me. My wife and I watched this in the theater and she looked over at me seeing huge tears streaming down my face but no sound was coming out. She’d never seen my cry before in 15 years together. RIP brothers until Valhalla

It's so funny to hear SF guys talk about how to use mortars.

Another great video guys! Its like hanging out there with yall. As an 11C, yeah we use a MBC computer or a plotting board to come up with Elevation, deflection and charge. But yeah they would have had known targets and shifted from that known point. You are spot on though, after the first round hits, any adjustments are made if needed and you fire for effect. That system they show in the movie clip is a 120mm.

Loving these breakdowns gents. The “regular size corona” line had me cracking up. Been waiting for that for an hour, 😂😂😂❤😊

I was a mortar in the Chowkay Valley with 2-503 173rd. The valley connecting to Korengal. You have yo learn the terrain and sound.iys awesome hearing someone else talking about the different sounds rounds make. The 2×4 smacking concrete means it just past by your head. AIRBORNE

always appreciate input from guys who know. thanks guys

What’s really cool is one of the actual soldier’s from that day is playing himself in the movie “it’s just another fucking day in Afghanistan”

Man I’m sitting here at work enjoy these breakdowns like man I wish I had a beer right about now kickin it with these dudes lol

Hank sounds like an awesome dog. I hope that Nepalese commander didn’t have him killed.

Great review guys, I was sitting right there with you. Remembering deployments, the shooting the shit, the off the wall shit that goes on when you're bored, jokes we played on each other, etc. Shit dude you can't pull that on civilians without them thinking your a fkn weirdo. They just don't get it...damn, thoes were good times, thanks

What I read about this movie is that 3 person was on set who actually fought in that battle, 2 advisor and 1 actually played a role in the film, but if I remember correctly not his own. That sure gave a boost to the accuracy.

Great to see the realistic approach...keep 'em coming...

Just wanted to thank you all for such a great series. Laughed, learned a thing or two. Very interesting topics( the real stories). I've been binge watching while cutting up my black bear for canning. It is true. If your going to work with knives your going to get cut. Especially watching guys drinking , criticing and telling war stories. Thanks for livening up a boring job. Cheers

As an 11C.. I had an aneurysm when you guys were talking about the mortar systems.. Great video though lol

The dogs that would go all night by the COP also became a problem.. They would start barking when we were trying to slip out to set up OP's at night. We eventually started to slip out through the back entrance after letting a team go out through the main gate. They would head one way and we would peel off trying to stay parallel with them going through the orchards. Dogs were still a problem though, they also got disappeared. A suppresor was used, and we were Army conventional Infantry.. We don't get suppressors issued. I think a drug deal went down just so top could handle it without getting the boys involved. We loved dogs, but we were blood hungry savages. I'm just glad it wasn't anybody in the squads that did them in. Cause going out there with DOC to pick them up and throw them in the fire pit is something ill never forget. Our platoon pet was a local dog, she also hated the locals. She would chace off the damn kids. She got into the ANA pet birds one day.. After that we thought she was dead, because we heard they took a machete to one of her legs. She showed up a month later... The leg was.. Badly infected, she wasn't going to make it. We knew she would follow the outgoing squad on mission. So the squad leader did the only thing we could for her... God fucking dog though. No locals were ever allowed near us if she was around.

Just watched it again last night. One of the better movies based on true stories.

What a lot of people don’t realize about the two Medal of Honor recipients Clint Romesha and Ty Carter is that they were not infantry they were Cav scouts I believe bc they do not have blue cords when the received their medal of honors. I first realized when I was at the National Infantry museum when I graduated and they were both not on the Medal of Honor wall.

The Battle of Ganjgal had two living Medal of Honor recipients. Dakota Meyer and William Swenson.

The book is really really good (The Outpost, by Jake Tapper). Probably one of my favorite reads and I think it does the whole story of COP Keating a little more justice just because you can get so much more detail in a book. That being said, I did enjoy this movie quite at bit and I think they did about as well as they could have in the amount of time they had.

Guys... the Battle of Ganjegal Valley also had two MOH recipients ... Capt Swenson and Corporal Meyer. BUT love your work. Keep it up. Semper Fidelis.

The mortar portion of the talk is pretty accurate. Handheld mode is where you aim with the thumb and squeeze the trigger on the trigger fire option of safe,drop,trigger and we also have 120mm mortars that are ground mounted.

Great show, guys! Sean's story about how an Apache couldn't find a PKM gunner...yep. As the actual battle was described, the air support came in and worked for like hours to root out all the Taliban from their positions in the rocks. Supposedly, there was a DSHK that got one or two of the Apaches. The pilots managed to get back to base and put a steel rod through the DSHK bullet hole to figure out the angle it was shooting from when he was hit. Not perfect for obvious reasons but he used that to figure out approximately where the DSHK was for when he got back in the fight and they were able to work with the guys on the ground to find and take out that gun. Just the stack of air support one of the camp Keating guys had to coordinate for like hours of runs and refuels. Crazeh! Awesome movie. Thanks for the show FNG-A!

That corona joke was top tier lol love the banter

The part that stood out to me the best.. was the end when SSG Carter was talking to the Doc.

Listening to this is great. The down time is the worst time for fights to breakout. I was USAF Security police and during the police academy we trained with USMC MPs. Building entry day was long and rough by the end of it we were all on each others nerves. After so many Marine put downs of the Air Force I did a scoop slam from behind on the most annoying Marine putting him in the dirt and was immediately dragged backwards in a chokehold. I broke out of it spun around and I was surrounded by jarheads. the instructors knew I was about to stomped into the dirt broke it up and had us doing push ups and mountain climbers until we dropped. But after that I became good friends with all of the Marines. Adrenaline and anger is a dangerous mix.

The burning of the UAs was VERY accurate hahaha

You should review End of Watch next since you were LEO Good gunfighting and tactics displayed & also the old school X300 is used

i think this movie did an incredible job representing the book of the same name. Clint Romesha wrote an amazing book (you can tell the writers of this script read it) called red platoon about his experiences. the scene where romesha is telling his team how he would assault keating was taken almost directly from red platoon. according to romesha, they literally discussed how the taliban was gonna fuck em up and exactly how they would do it constantly prior to them actually doing it.

You meant to say wiz wheel @5:25 Pre Planned Targets are vital as well. Also 60s are fun ass hell!

@2:40 Leave no Dog behind, task a mission to extract Hank!

You should set up a Patreon or something where you upload the entire reaction uncensored, I’d definitely subscribe.

It was not the only battle where two people were awarded the MOH. Dakota Meyer and William Swenson were both awarded the MOH for The Battle of Gunjgal where they worked together.

Capt. Keating was written in as their original CO from whom the outpost was named after, just for brevity and more cohesive screenplay storytelling. But Keating was actually from a different unit from a tour of duty several years before. He did die from the truck falling off the cliff as shown in the movie.

What really ticked me off was the officers who put those guys in such a lousy position with poor support never really got punished for their absolute stupidity. They should have been busted in rank and never allowed to lead forces in combat again.

Thank you 🙏

I was there in 06’ and that place sucked. Looking up at the mountains we all just kind of went “well… it was nice knowing you guys.”

My ds at OSUT was a PFC at Keating during the attack.

Fantastic book, I highly recommend it.

Not seen this one yet..! Been saving it for some reason..

Beers & Break Downs 👍 Epic Sean 🍀🍀🍀 Thank you for sharing 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Thank you for your Military service and the video.

“But in your hands, it looks like a regular one” 😂 hahahah

Yeah, we were absolute pros at setting up ourselves in the bottoms of "salad bowls".

I never made it to afghanistan, I was on standby in incirlik turkey, but this movie looks so damn spot on to this OP. I’m a history buff and these guys really embraced the suck.

Appreciated the watch

FYI the guys this movie portrayed were cav scouts (19d) not infantry .

Same opinion on this movie. Wasn't into it until the bullets started flying, now it's one of my favorite military movies

Great review, so going watch the movie. 👍🏼 You must review ‘6 days’ on Netflix’s

That dog was 100% an opfor plant HUMINT. erm... DOGINT asset Curt,he just finished his mission and just went home for debrief. 2 barks for no 1 for yes haha

I fought my ATL in the barracks at Ft. Bragg. We were best buds again like 20 minutes later.

You should watch and do a react video to some of the Medal of Honor episodes on Netflix. It has both of the MoH recipients from Keating

i like ur beard brother haha anyways gonna enjoy this with a cold beer!

the book is phenomenal

Love the videos. FYI Bloom punched Bieber, not the other way around. I agree "End of Watch". Not Military but still good epic movie.

We QRF'ed Keating, that was rough.

Clint Romesha MOH - wrote his book about this incident - really good read. Red Platoon: a True Story of American Valor (Eastwood plays him in the movie - the movie was based on a book written by Jake Trapper - which I always thought was odd that they didn't use the book written by the guy who lived through it.)

They had the veterans from COP Keating assist with the movie production hence the accuracy. Fun fact, look it up.

We had a dog that did the same thing followed us for hours all the way back from foot patrol and we kept her she went on every patrol with us. We named her hood rat! Our platoon sgt brought her home and kept her. Still has her to this day that was 12 years ago.

Had the EXACT conversation waking up from a nap. "Is that incoming or outgoing?" It was incoming. Most scared I have ever been.

One of the things I remember hearing is that Apaches were firing withing their guns within 15m of friendlies inside the wire near the end of this battle because Taliban were pouring through HESCO barriers by the time air support showed up. These guys were extremely close to getting completely overrun.

This movie is based on actual events. One of the soldiers that was actually there “SPC Rodrigues “ played himself in the movie. Other Veterans also were acting. The Movie was filmed “correction” in Bulgaria.

From Feb 2008 to May 2009 unit 62nd Engineers C. Co did construction for infantry boys at these bases like Keating. Well 1st platoon went to Keating. Didn't know this happened that October. Movie was realistic....

i wanna see yall do the carlos hathcock interveiw.

This movie pretty much summed up this deployment(09-10) being part of this BDE(4/4) and we were just south in the Pech River Valley

Pretty sure (i was told or saw in credits) some of the characters were also played by the actual people that were there as well, which must have been kinda crazy for them to sorta re-live it a little bit. Probably why banter and everything was pretty good.

Had a puppy we rescued from the IA in Mosul that we saw literally punt across a field smh. Smoked the dawg chit outta that IA kid and named the puppy football lol.

It amazes me how we don't learn from the past. Hearts and minds doesn't work. If 25%of Islam is radicalized yet still operate freely bet your ass the other 75% aren't on your side. Which proved out in Vietnam and the war on terror. That said green berets are truly bad ass. You guys remind me of a lot of guys I served with in my beloved corps

29:00 or so, It's a lot more likely to happen when you have an LT as the OIC...and he had BETTER listen to his NCOs!!

Loved this movie