National Geographic: Inside the Green Berets
by Steven Hoggard
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Director: Steven HoggardBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: G75279
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
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- With exclusive access, National Geographic chronicles the lives of the war-hardened Green Berets charged with protecting local civilians from the wrath of the Taliban in a remote outpost in Afghanistan. In a dramatic turn of events, a tragic explosion strikes the soldiers and film crew. With intimate firsthand accounts, National Geographic provides a rare, up-close look at the sacrifices, challeng
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DVD Review: Serious television about serious times
Summary: 4 Stars
Anyone that still questions America's role in Afghanistan should view this video from National Geographic's "inside" series. The company is famed for its inside series that have exposed the truth behind events such as 9/11, North Korea and the mafia (no DVD), the last of which featured real life mafioso Henry Hill, whose life story was the basis of Martin Scorses's film GoodFellas. Here, National Geographic takes us inside the machinations and daily routines of a group of Green Berets in Afghanistan and gives Americans unprecedented insight into the death-defying struggles these professional soldiers face every day.
One thing many Americans don't understand in the 21st century is that, unlike in Vietnam and past wars, today's soliders are not draftees that serve a one-year hitch in foreign placement, then come home to resume their lives. Becasue of this, a very low percentage of Americans do the fighting and they are professionals -- esepcially the Green Berets -- who are older, often married with children, and who have had a number of foreign tours. Their families back home endure this without support from the breadwinner. Not only is this a new century, American's military personnal have a very different responsibilities in it. In many wars, they are our invisible soldiers doing our nation's dirty work for the rest of us.
What is most interesting about this hour-long slice of military life is the role the Green Berets play in Afghanistan. They spend time chasing the Taliban around and trying to eliminate them, while at every turn fighting against the new international weapon known as the IED -- improvised expolosive device. My grandson, who is in Afghanistan now, told me it's a beautiful place full of mountains. "If only the Afghans weren't here, it would be a great place," he told me.
The scenes viewed in this documentary contrast greatly with his view. The landscape is viewed as harsh, mountainous and often difficult terrain. Because IEDs are everywhere, the military personnel try to never use the same path twice, much less use what passes for roads over there. They are constantly challenged to find new ways to reach their targets.
In many cases, their targets are to win the "hearts and minds" of the Afghan population by convincing them that the firefight in their villages the day before, whose collateral damage may have included a host of noncombatant villagers, was an error on the way to their liberation. The Afghans has lived under the repressive Taliban regime, who punish crimes like adultery with death, for years. Many want them gone but U.S. and U.N. military cannot always tell whom is the ally and whom is an agent of the enemy. Still, Americans press forward by giving the locals grain, other food, water and radios that broadcast U.S.-supported propaganda.
This is an interesting hour of events and people that make up the ongoing U.S. imperialism in Afghanistan. The film crew to this effort eventually became part of the story and a couple ended up being wounded when two military people died. It's the real stuff of war in the 21st century with professional American soldiers the subject.
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