{"id":17513,"date":"2010-02-17T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:17:06","slug":"usa-today-on-how-vets-feel-about-the-hurt-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17513","title":{"rendered":"USA Today on How Vets Feel About The Hurt Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Today has run an article that discusses how many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have different opinions on the accuracy and quality<\/a> of the movie The Hurt Locker<\/em>. The author of article, Gregg Zoroya, does an excellent job of gauging veterans’ responses to the movie, presenting an array of opinions including those of Army of Dude<\/a> and Bouhammer<\/a>, who are both quoted in the article. I highly encourage you all to read the article, it is one of the few times the MSM has done a good job of reporting on how vets feel about a particular issue (albeit not a very important one).<\/p>\n

I personally enjoyed The Hurt Locker<\/em> and thought it got a lot of things right about Americans in Iraq. In particular, I enjoyed how the movie mostly stayed out of the politics and how the insurgents were portrayed for exactly what they are: a bunch of savages who don’t care who they harm or kill in their strive to attain their goals. I felt that generally EOD’s mission was properly portrayed (a couple ridiculous adventures notwithstadning) and the opening scene in my opinion was a dead-on accurate depiction of how an EOD mission usually works.<\/p>\n

Of course there were many technical errors (involving everything from uniforms to rank) and ridiculous side-stories that involved EOD doing everything from helping private military contractors kill a sniper to the EOD team leader running alone through the streets of Baghdad at night. But you got to remember that this is a Hollywood movie, and there will always be a dramatic license taken with war movies.<\/p>\n

Overall, compared to the other trash that has come about Iraq<\/a>, the Hurt Locker is a good war movie and the first real decent portrayal of Americans in Iraq by Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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