Glenn Reynolds recommended this new documentary by former Marine, TV journalist, and milblogger J.D. Johannes last week, and I was able to watch it this weekend.
http://instapundit.com/archives2/2007/02/post_2156.php
You can get the movie via Customflix
http://www.customflix.com/222395 Johannes embedded with his former unit and brings you on the front lines and up close and personal with Marines who willingly go back again and again to Iraq in defense of our security and freedom.
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Outside the Wire
This is the Iraq War you won't see on the evening news.
Former Marine and television news producer JD Johannes traveled to Iraq with his old Marine Corps unit to produce syndicated TV news reports for local stations. From those reports comes a view of the war that only the grunts who operate outside the wire experience.
From a dust-up with Al Qaida outside Abu Ghriab, to a night raid on the home of an insurgent leader, you will see what the Marines saw and hear the story in their own words of why they joined, volunteered for the deployment, why they fight and what it is like to go outside the wire and into combat.
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Arkin calls them "young and naive" "mercenaries."
The rest of us whose brains are not infected with BDS call them American heroes.