A little known fact - Sean Smith (the IT guy), was a massive member of the Eve Online gaming community, just before the attack he was online talking to his online friends - and the last message he put in chat was "fuck.... gunfire" Since his passing the community memorialised him in game and members of the gaming community helped to raise $127k for his his family.

This incident still boils my blood. The amount of warning signs that were ignored, the steps that could have been taken to prevent it or help, and especially the lies and blame shifting that followed.

Three of the survivors from this attack helped make this movie possible. I was serving when this happened

Tig is running for mayor of my hometown Colorado Springs. VOTE 4 TIG!

If you saw the two insignias (the eagle with anchor, pistol and trident) of two of the guys who died, that indicates they were SEALs, so they definitely served in the military.

This movie brought back all the anger I had at the time. Not only the bad decisions before and during this event but the lies told to the American people for many weeks even though they knew the truth an hour after the event happened. If it weren't for these brave men telling the story we may never have known at least part of the story.

I have great respect for the guys who went in without orders because they felt they had to help. Then they protected the compound for hours, long enough to evacuate everyone there. They did exemplary work given the situation and with how outnumbered they were.

Shawn Ryan just did a podcast where he interviewed a former CIA officer who has inside information of what happened on this day. It’s a fantastic interview.

The thing I appreciated about this movie was the REAL way laser sights are used in combat. They're infrared and only show up using IR goggles so they don't give the position of the gunner away like they do in other movies with the red or green laser lines shooting out. Nobody sees them without goggles.

The ambassador suffered horrifically before he died, glad they didn’t show what actually happened to him. R.I.P

The compound had been under observation for some time, as had been the ambassador's residence. There had also been a few attacks, including one that put a hole in the perimeter wall. This kind of thing was why the other embassies and such had left the country. It is also amazing that, considering this, that support assets weren't in range to support them, especially after the ambassador was sent in.

13 hours has got to be one of the best military movies ever hands-down and perhaps Michael Bay’s best film.

Cassie, I can see this film literally caused you pain. It shows who you are as a person that you were willing to watch this film knowing it would be hard. May God richly bless you for bringing light to these warriors and their sacrifices!

John Krasinski actually trained like a Navy SEAL, to look like his role. He gained 25 pounds of muscle, and his body fat, dropped to 9%.

i was in afghanistan when this happened and even we heard about it in a COP in the middle of nowhere and even out there we were like "why is no one helping them?" . wild.

The fact our president at the time was told this was happening, then proceeded to fly with his family to go visit Beyonce while this was happening real time, is infuriating.

A criminally underrated film.

Thank you Cassie for doing this movie, I know it can be a hard one to watch. I worked with Glen Doherty several times in the past, I was sad when I found out he had died.

To those who requested this movie. Thank you. Absolutely my favorite Bey film - yet so heart breaking.

Hi Cassie. Thank you again for this reaction , reactions like this help show the very human and emotional impact of what men like Jack, OZ and the team endured. It is beyond infuriating what this team faced. I feel for you when I see how visibly shaken and upset you get, it's never easy showing personal horrors of something like this. To the memory of Rone and Glen . And with thanks to all the vets like Jack, OZ, Tanto and the Annex team who serve and defend. God bless them all.

Thanks for remembering our Veterans.

Glen Doherty was actually from the town right next to mine. Every year they hold a memorial/fundraiser run in his honor.

28:14 "I don't get why nobody's coming to help them" Exactly. Thats what the controversy is mainly about. The US government decided not to send any form of support for political reasons during and prior to the event.

I remember this being filmed. It was shot mostly in Malta. Surprising how many blockbusters were filmed here on this little Island . Troy, Gladiator, Count of Monte cristo...

Mark "Oz" Geist was on the Shawn Ryan Show not that long ago. That dude had some serious stories, not just soldier ones. Sarah Adams was also just on the same show describing the intelligence around this event. Eric Prince have some actual good opinions on contractors. Not that weird considering who he is. The "they're just contractors so it doesn't count" doesn't hold up if you think about it at all. The only reason they exists is to fill the gaps in capability, security and manpower that it would cost the government too much to fill. So they turn to the private sector to solve that problem. The best example is a Delta Force story. There were either 2 or 3 of them, along with 10 or so local militia in an African country. They were the only American soldiers in the entire country and the operation had been so sudden there had been no planning, they simply went to help the militia with the terrorists they were tracking. They came under fire and were able to call in support from an aircraft carrier they knew were operating along the horn of Africa. That's why a contractor "get's paid more", they don't get to commandeer aircraft carriers so the government can afford to pay them a little more than a soldier.

Our Secretary of State did absolutely nothing. And then blamed it all on a KZfaq video. One of the most disgraceful and disgusting actions, or lack thereof, that could've happened.

AND HILLARY SAID, "what does it mstter"!!! Sick

when i just noticed you wearing a poppy it made me tear up pretty good! Ive been to A Lot of military funerals, more than i can count. Worst one was watching a Marine give my mom a folded flag... You have no idea how much it means to see you wearing that. Thank you Cassie. Happy Veterans Day to you and your family.

There were a couple of points of controversy about this situation. The first was on the nature of the attack. It was portrayed by some as a violent protest rather than an assault. The second was why they did not get support. People fall on different sides of the issues, but those are the two main controversies.

The Shawn Ryan podcast did an interview with a CIA targeter that was super insightful on what happened in Benghazi.

The story of these men was my motivation for joining the military. I only wish I was half as great as they are. I had the opportunity of meeting Tig earlier this year in Colorado Springs during his mayoral campaign, and learned about some of his work since Benghazi and the film. He truly has a gentle soul after all that he's experienced.

This movie had me in tears .. the amount of denial around this dishonoured many people.

Great film. Tanto, Oz and Tig have done some great talks/interviews that are avail on YT and are worth a watch if you want some first hand accounts of what happened. Proper legends these guys.

was on a joint diplomatic security team in my younger years before this attack happened this was deff a worst fear we had if attacked and how long could we hold before a SRT team to get to us and how are defence would be set up.

I spent 26 years in the Army...I detest Hillary Clinton to this day because of this! She refused to send help and then said "What does it matter" during a congressional hearing. I wouldn't spit on her if she was on fire.

Hour after hour no help came. Ambassador Chris Stevens was was loved and truly believed he could help effect change there

Anyone who says these guys' sacrifices didn't count has no room to talk about what sacrifice is.

I've trained with Kris Paronto and Dave Boone. Awesome down to Earth guys.

Awesome reaction Cassie. You're so right when you say this feature film is the closest someone could come to actually experiencing an actual combat situation. Merry Christmas and thank you for taking time to honor veterans who make possible the freedom and safety we enjoy!

'Rone' was a family friend. May he and the others rest in peace.

This film is epic. Brilliant movie. Great cast, filming, editing, sound design.

One of the greatest and also one of the saddest war movies ever made. Based on the real life 2012 Benghazi Embassy Incident.

Rone owned a bar in Imperial Beach, CA called Salty Frog. It’s still open and has a plaque for Rone by the door. Great spot to get a drink.

When you daid "I'm conflicted" my brain instantly said "not for long lady." This movie is just a tip to the iceberg. And the people that play these chess games are truly untouchable, it's a damn shame.

I would highly recommend you read or listen to the audiobook of the same title as the movie. It gives a great explanation of the events leading to this as well as more detail than obviously the movie gives. Though the movie does a superb job of putting most all pertinent information in the movie from the book. 13 Hours : the secret warriors of Benghazi

A "Technical" is any Civilian Vehicle with a Mounted Weapon. This could be a Sudan with a mounted machine gun, a pickup truck with a mounted mortar launcher, or a moving van with a 18th-century cannon in the back.

There is a stretch of highway in Oregon City, Oregon named after Tyrone. It’s where he was from

This movie, along with 'Black Hawk Down' are my favorite war movies. Yes, with all war movies there will be inaccuracies but the bravery and steel of these men is what needed to be shown and it was. They were failed by their chief, their president, their secretary of defense, and everyone in between. Sidebar as a soldier of 12yrs currently, thank you for your support and content!! It keeps us going!!

An absolute disgrace that our “leaders” at the time, left them their to die and tried to sweep it under the rug. And not even a slap on the wrist for any of them

i feel sorry for the soldiers sent into an impossible situation, and the families who mourn their loss. the politicians and covert operatives i leave to you, America.

"All the Gods, All the Heavens, All thr Hells are within you" I tattooed that on my arm. Its a quote by Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth. Be a warrior in a garden my friends.

I ran into Tonto about two months ago at the Atlanta airport while traveling. He was traveling too, headed to speak in San Antonio. If you happen to see him, he is a really nice guy, Humble, and easy to engage in conversation.

This movie is so well done it angers me others so much. The lack of reaction to this situation. Before and during.

I have really strong feelings about what happened in Benghazi but this is neither the time nor the place to share them. For now I'll settle for concurring with Cassie and wishing everyone a happy belated Veterans/Remembrance Day.

I met Kris Paronto at a speaking engagement. He's a super chill humble guy.

Thank you for wearing a red poppy on Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day. In Flanders Fields by Lt Col John McCrae (his best friend had been killed the day before he wrote this poem) In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Great reaction Cassie, thanks for the shout out in the chat, Home Of The Brave and American Sniper are good war films. I suggest them for Patreon.

"I don't get why no one's coming to help them." You said it all, sister.

Please forgive me have not been on KZfaq during the summer, But as a Veteran as I said in the past 75th Rangers Lead The Way. I had to watch this one with you, This movie holds a special place in my heart wont go in to details , and why I so dislike what and how our Secretary Of State and the time screwed up. Lets Roll

Was ANYBODY in the federal government held accountable for this? As in jailed, let alone fired? For God’s sakes, a U.S. ambassador died!

Thank you for honoring us veterans Cassie. It took so long to get them help because nobody knew this base existed.

Great job! One of my favorite movies and you more than did it justice. Let me recommend Tears of The Sun with Bruce Willis, Monica Belluci and Cole Hauser (Yellowstone).

One of Michael Bay's best films, he works best as a director on serious movies.

“I don’t understand why no one is coming to help them.” -Cassie, none of us understood why no one was coming to help them. There should be high up politicians in prison over this, but if you say that you’re a conspiracy theorist. There are truly evil people running this country.

So glad to finally see this reaction on your channel! It’s a fantastic movie and true story told by the actual guys that were there. Pretty cool to see Jim and Roy team up and fight the bad guys as well lol

Absolutely a fantastic account of actual events..powerful!!!

First i will say I cannot watch these movies but I can watch you watch these movies. Seeing those warriors talking with their wife and kids makes me remember the feeling of being left out when they could talk to their families. I lived under "a marine makes for a bad husband and a husband makes for a bad Marine." That was the best way for me to get through it all. Now 15 years later I am all alone. At this point I would never open this pain to anyone else and I have no family left in Ireland or in the states. Now alone the silence is so loud.

This is one of the biggest political betrayals of US servicemembers and US citizens in recent history. I researched this event in detail and dug as deep as I could. This movie is extremely accurate to the actual events that happened. The only differences I found were the name changes of Jack Silva, because at the time the book was written, Jack hadn't retired from the CIA yet, so his identity needed to be protected. And CIA Station Chief Bob was a name change because the men who wrote the book, who fought that night, had no desire to make a hit job or slander his name as if they have a personal grudge against him. They simply wanted the truth out there. These men and women went through absolute hell and were betrayed by their superiors, commanders and politicians at every level and in every way.

I remember this thing in news. I remember thinking "are you kidding me?" and whole bs circus that went after this Washington trying to shift blaim. This is Michael Bay's best film with The Rock and Armageddon (which are entertaining but this is amazing in different reasons) this is just absolutely tense film and I was so surprised after film to see it was Michael Bay's film

This holiday was originally called Armistice day and celebrated on Nov 11th because the ww1 armistice was to occur on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.

One you have to add after this was The Outpost, didn’t get a ton of attention cause it was released directly on Netflix while theaters were shut down for Covid, but very good.

One badass fact is that Glen Bub Doherty, the SEAL from Tripoli depicted in the movie, had a part in rescuing Jessica Lynch & rescuing Captain Phillips in his time when he was in the SEAL Teams

Good to see Jim and Roy squashed their beef and can work together.

What a cluster by those in charge. I always loved the excuse, we could not have got help to them before it was over. How the hell do you know when an active battle is going to be over. Bull____. The airbase in Italy was not that far away. Also, FYI terrorists like to do things on anniversaries. So, if you have common sense (which is rare these days), you would be on high alert and ready. Oh, thats right it was a video that did it. No, it was an administration that was determined to not call anything under their watch a terrorists attack. We are so screwed these days.

DS stands for Diplomatic Security, there were only 5 diplomatic security agents assigned to protecting the embassy as that was all the State Dept functionary allowed even though they had requested more TWICE due to the continuous level of violence in the city including all around the embassy, she said, "five is adequate", she even had the gall to defend her decision and said after the attack that "five was adequate"!

Good reaction Cas, as always. If another “true War story is needed, consider the Vietnam Nam War movie “ Hamburger Hill. “. It’s a film seldom reacted to on KZfaq reaction channels, which is a shame because it is a very well made film that is historically accurate. And it gave a lot of talented young actors a start in their careers in film and tv.

I am looking forward to this review. Too bad our country let these men down.

Read the BOOK Cassie. You will understand

I'm a grown ass man and I always cry when I watch this movie.

Would love to see you react to Zulu, a classic british film about a real battle in history.

This movie is FANTASTIC. Ultimately, though, it is infuriating and sad at the same time to know that certain person(s) in the State Department at that time had knowledge that something was going to happen and they chose to ignore that information. And then they lied about it at a Senate hearing.

Muammar Gaddafi Was a Bonnie dictator at this point there was know reason to overthrow him the war hawks wanted another endless war like Iraq

As a son of a military father (navy), and being part of a life long military family (Navy,Air Force ,and Army) . I can honestly say it's times like this that make me love my country and hate my government. Doesn't matter whether Obama didn't order help. Or Hillary failed in her duties. At some point, people of all ranks and branches of the military and government were to quick to follow bad orders and cover their own asses. This time we lost a beloved ambassador, two ex military and current civilian security contractors, plus 1 state department personnel. Forever effected 31 peoples lives. Paid out millions of dollars in disability claims, medical bills, and therapy. Yet not one person was ever held accountable. Because of this failure, the lies that spread from the Obama White House. Years later we repeated this same situation when exiting Iraq. Yet again, no one was ever held accountable. Not one person that should have lost their job did, and the American public wasn't to concerned about holding those that screwed up responsible. Gone are the days of high ranking military leaders that knew when to follow an order and when to just say, "You can court marshall me if we make it out alive, Sir!" Too many times, I have watched sailors exit ships in their dress whites coming home from tour. The planes filled with service men and women coming back from deployment. Yes, I even have made the effort to go and welcome the coffins as they are removed from the belly of a plane. I have seen the tears of joy, fear, and sadness in the eyes of too many families to count, including my own. It will always be my honor and duty to welcome these brave men and women home until I can not, any longer. Too reach for their hand, look them in the eyes, and truly thank them for their service.

I love how the first 40 minutes of the movie is dedicated to showing everything wrong with the situation, and the rest of the movie is 5 minutes of calm, 5 minutes of "OH SHIT", 5 minutes of calm again.

Act of Valor would be a good Veterans Day movie.

Got a chance to meet Tanto. Very cool guy. He's a trainer now, in the private sector. The part I never could get over was the US had assets near Benghazi, just across the Med. But they did nothing. All that was needed was authorization from Obama or Hillary or one of their underlings, and they did nothing. Then they lied about what happened and why. Sorry, but the whole thing was infuriating. Great reaction. Love the channel.

Cassie, Thankyou for reacting to this film and giving it more exposure. The American people deserve to know the truth of how their politicians betrayed those brave warriors & veteran's.

For those that say it doesn't count because they were contractors, are full of crap. Is the ambassador a contractor? How about a staff? How about the CIA are they contractors? The answer is no to all of those questions now what do you have for an excuse. And for the record and ambassador is a direct representative of the president.

Air cover never came. The excuse for not sending help was the military is not set up as a 911 response unit. The F16's in northern Italy needed to be fueled to make it there and back. The answer giving at the hearings was they were not sure if there was personnel on a military island off Italy that could to do a hot pit refuel.

So stoked you're doing this film

Jim and Roy have come a long way since dunder mifflin in Scranton 👀🤣

Oz was on the roof when the three mortars hit. They were I believe French made 81 or 82 mm mortars with a blast kill range of 131 feet. All three hit within 20 ft of oz and he survived. Go watch his interview on the Shawn Ryan show. He swears the only reason he survived was god looking out for him.

This is a top 5 military movie in my opinion. Michael Bay’s masterpiece.

There's a lot more to this story that they couldn't put in, or the movie would have been blocked. Those weapons, the ones they say Libyan's raided from Khadaffi. Actually those weren't the weapons that they were worried about. Clinton's State Department fomented that civil war, and armed the Islamic Rebels (who later were the seeds of ISIS). And they armed them with modern weapons, including Surface to Air Missles, Small Arms, RPG's, and a millions of dollars. After Khadaffi was ousted, Hillary's State Department wanted the weapons back. The Rebels said NO. And the rebels turned it's sights towards US. This was all predictable, but you had neophytes in the White House, doing exactly what they accuse their opponents of doing. Databyter

I watched this movie in theaters when I was 15 and looking back at it I think this movie ignited the fire in me to join the military.

Roy from The Office was also Brian Murphy, the deaf receiver in The Replacements.

Fact: Barack Obama was visiting JAY-Z and Beyonce when this horrific event was happening, and yes, he knew the situation before he got on the plane to Vegas.

Ah, hell ya this counts as a salute to the vets movie. All those GRS contractors were prior Seals, Rangers, or Marines. You can’t get more HOO-RAH high speed than that.

Books to read: 1. Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy by Sarah Adams (CIA) & Dave 'Boon' Benton 2. 13 Hours in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff

Finally! 13 hours is such an underrated war movie.