Get down in the trenches with real-life service members and experience their story firsthand on Netflix. I encourage you to watch this docuseries for yourself to find out how it ends, because there is much more to this story. The call went out: “Enemy inside the wire!” Combat Outpost Keating was under attack. One day, the enemy broke through the perimeter of the camp. But clearly, the story didn’t stop there. The show’s writers were effective in providing adequate background to portray the magnitude of the situation. David Petraeus sets the military scene for viewers as he describes the threat this group of service members was constantly under. Really, they had to because they never knew when their lives would depend on their battle buddies having their backs.Īs the soldiers tell their stories, Gen. These soldiers played video games, swapped stories of loved ones waiting back home, and in the process, developed a close-knit group. Under this constant threat of attack, the men made the best of it. They recount living in tight quarters, in a ramshackle Army camp, which were set up in between the country hills where the Taliban fighters could be hiding anywhere. Throughout the episode, fellow soldiers who served with Romesha share personal stories of how their experience played out. They set the scene with Romesha and his platoon as they canvass a small village in rural Afghanistan, scanning the crowded area of busy Afghan villagers for potential threats and Taliban. After we set our own context for the show, it was go time.įrom the very beginning, Netflix drew us into the series. Romesha (DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett/Released)īecause we are part of the big military family, we hosted a “pre-screening brief,” where we chatted a bit about what it meant to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Would this be an overly dramatized movie depicting perceived ideas of combat, or would it get to the real strength of what valor means? Former U.S. (Want to check it out? You can find the interview here: AWTR Show 567: Red Platoon, A True Story of American Valor. Clint Romesha.” I specifically chose Clint Romesha because I’ve read his book, Red Platoon, and was privileged to interview him on Army Wife Talk Radio back in 2016, right around the time of his book release. We had been asked to screen the new Netflix docuseries, Medal of Honor, watching “Episode 2: Staff Sgt.
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