I have just finished watching this documentary. While some people are giving negative comments about the documentary and the journalists part in it. People are under the impression this was only to be about America's Military in Afghanistan. However, near the beginning Mike stated that he had sacrificed his family because he neglected them and choose to be a war correspondent. He felt he had this last chance to connect with his son and if he blew it he would lose his son.Mike is an award winning journalist. He is a war correspondent. He has covered world conflict for 30 years, and was kidnapped and threatened with execution as well as been a survivor of suicide bombing. Carlos and Mike embedded themselves with U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to bring their perspective of the war in Afghanistan. His coverage dates back to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Without journalists like him we would never be able to understand some of the things that happens in war. To see someone injured or who has died makes it so real for us. Every day men and women at war go to work everyday not knowing if they will die today. They hunt down the really bad men in this world and although I do not believe in the death penalty, I wont lose sleep if these kinds of men die.Carlos and Mike were 2 different people in the end of the documentary then they were at the beginning of it. They finally had their connection, their bond as father and son.I feel they have made sacrifices for us as well...

What gets me is the madness of the father taking his son to a region where death is almost tangible at every corner. If you want to introduce a situation to people is there really a need to endanger others especially your own kin in the process and to what purpose? Aside from this obvious clusterfracus one just gets so annoyed with the terrible soundtrack. Over the top and totally disengaging. The ongoing stream of how bad and loathsome war is seems to be a real in with the liberal mindset of Hollywood. So we start to become a nation of do nothings which is exactly what our illustrious 'want to be' president is doing now. Greatest failure as a president in modern times. This film is just dumb and caters for those who still need weening at mothers teets as they just have never been in the real world. The other question I have is to the producers. Why are you doing this type of moronic film. Money? WHY? It is just a total drag and people who like this movie need to have a serious look in the mirror. Do not support this garbage.

~By Andrew Buncombe – 10 January 2011~US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.A government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.Based on this report, and further proved by this pathetic documentary, we have to think reversely from the insurgents' side: you have to guess how many bullets one insurgent used to kill one US combat soldier. Then you might know how poorly the US soldiers were trained. What we saw in this film can be summarized as follow:1) Dodging bullets desperately and fired back blindly to the general direction where the bullets came from. 2) When pinned down by a single Taliban shooter, and wasted so many bullets in vain, they called the air strikes to save their butts. This film also told us that before this old journalist retired, he wanted his son to get the high pay job in time before he was forced to get out of the combat zones. This was just a film showing how he got his son oriented before using his influence to recommend him to take over his job. There's nothing that I could use to glorify our troops but shaking my head constantly and felt either embarrassed or pathetic. These poorly trained soldiers were wounded or died for nothing, and no wonder why these pathetic wars could never end and never won. We only need a few more well-trained snipers in these theaters instead of these pathetic "Inglorious Bastards" eating away our tax. I rest my case.

To all those who are reviewing without seeing it and also rating the movie low who HAVEN NOT EVEN SEEN IT IS SILLY, this movie I thought would be okay, but when I watched it I was very fascinated and cried near the end :-) because of how the ending played out. (NO SPOILERS) best movie ever.I hope someone else felt the same other than me, if you are interested in wars you will love this, please try it, it's a shirt film but it's very good. I was on the edge of my seat. It was great.I was very interested in this and it was way better then I expected.This also shows how our troops go out and do their job under so much pressure but do such a good job.