first Lone Survivor Trailer is out

funny you asked because it was going to be released second week in January but apparently he showed the rough draft to the studio and a few people and they all said that it had to be moved until Christmas week so it could qualify for award season.

thats pretty balsy but i hope thats a good sign. plus january movies always suck so im happy for that

Loved the book.

Marcus was a beast.

I wish he would have gotten a hold of them fellas that killed his dog.

Anyone interested in a bit more reading on the subject should check out Victory Point by Ed Darack. Tells the story from the Marine's perspective. A bit of a bigger picture.

You should read more. Start with the book I mentioned above.

I really thought this thread would get more traffic.

I would add One Bullet Away to the "must read" list.


Looking forward to this film also.

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I would add One Bullet Away to the "must read" list.


Looking forward to this film also.

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Are they making this movie as well?

Not that I'm aware of...just throwing another great book out there.

Please dont let this suck.

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Before any of you think about seeing this movie, please read what I wrote in /r/military about a month ago on the subject (also updating with what I just wrote about 5 minutes ago):

I hate to be the one to say it. But Lone Survivor is a very flawed piece of work that borderlines on propaganda. Be aware that Marcus Luttrell DID NOT WRITE THE BOOK. It was written while he was in Iraq. The half covering BUD/S is damn near lifted from Dick Couch's "The Warrior Elite" because Luttrell was mentioned a couple of times in it. Concerning events that took place in Afghanistan on the eastern slopes of the Korengal, the author no-shite wrote based on his memory of the interviews he did with Luttrell, many of which were not recorded and even lacked basic note taking.
The men who died on this day in 2005 should be honored by learning from mistakes made, not from fictional accounts of a modern "300". The SEALs had nothing but hand drawn maps, lacked proper comm, and were inserted within a mile of a town known to have a Taliban cell of about 40 fighters in a damn Chinook. The helicopter crew dumped the fast rope at the LZ, which doomed the QRF force who attempted to land there.
As a guy who's job it is to assist in the planning of operations to target HVI's like Redwings was, this operation is used as a case study. Now I have nothing but respect for those who gave their lives, when Luttrell's SR team hit the ground they were already doomed. The same with the QRF force, they had no way of knowing just how bad the mission had been blown. Many look at Lone Survivor as a war story where the SEALs go down fighting an entire company of Taliban fighters. That is not what Luttrell's AAR nor Lt Murphy's citation reflect though. I have always held the belief that honoring our dead means being truthful about how they died. Again, Luttrell's SR team fought like hell, but making them seem like they were Spartans who held off the entire Persian army is in my eyes disrespectful.

Already the glaring bullshite:
-SEALs were not there on a kill mission, they were there only to confirm the presence of an HVT.
-The SEALs elected to not bring proper comms
-The SEALs didn't even have proper maps, only hand-drawn ones and had never before operated in the Korengal.
-The SEALs were told to hump into their OP/LP, instead they inserted not even a mile from their objective in fricking Chinooks, they may as well have knocked on Ahmed Shah's door and introduced themselves. And the myth that continues to be perpetuated is the 200 on 4 gunfight, it never fricking happened, Marcus Luttrell never said 200 in his AAR, Lt Michael Murphy's MoH citation never read 200, only the piece of propaganda called "Lone Survivor" read "200 taliban". In fact Luttrell's AAR and Murphy's citation both read "35-40 Taliban"

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...still gonna see it

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