{"id":25736,"date":"2011-07-06T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25736"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:20:50","slug":"oda-574-the-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25736","title":{"rendered":"ODA-574 &#8220;The Calling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association and Brownell&#8217;s presents a three part web video series based on the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlythingworthdyingfor.com\/\">The Only Thing Worth Dying For<\/a>&#8220;. This is the first episode entitled &#8220;The Calling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"323\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/nralifeofduty.tv\/embedded\/bn_videoplayer_lod.swf\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"autoPlay=false&amp;videoInfo=http:\/\/nralifeofduty.tv\/svc\/videodetails?videoid=425\"\/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/nralifeofduty.tv\/embedded\/bn_videoplayer_lod.swf\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false&amp;videoInfo=http:\/\/nralifeofduty.tv\/svc\/videodetails?videoid=425\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The press release from Harper-Collins reads;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a moonless night just weeks after <del datetime=\"2011-07-06T15:16:21+00:00\">September 11, 2011<\/del>September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely with the equipment they carry on their backs, shocking scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerilla warfare, Captain Jack Amerine and his men have no choice but trust their only ally, a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has returned from exile and is being hunted by the Taliban a he travels the countryside raising a militia.<\/p>\n<p>The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the most important mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror, when the men on the ground knew little about the enemy\u2014and their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented access to surviving members of ODA 574, key war planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noise of politicians and high-level military officials to narrate for the first time a story of uncommon bravery and terrible sacrifice, intimately exposing the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan that continue to shape the region today. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Rifle Association and Brownell&#8217;s presents a three part web video series based on the &hellip; <a title=\"ODA-574 &#8220;The Calling&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25736\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ODA-574 &#8220;The Calling&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}