Interesting Military Docu-Series Premiering On HDNET

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By Nads | Monday, December 21, 2009 | 12:47 pm | 0 Comments
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I don’t know if you guys have HDNet or not, but on January 5th (and every Tuesday in January) they’re premiering a four-part documentary series called Baker Boys: Inside The Surge. The Baker Boys are an elite group of Army soldiers that are on an extended tour in Iraq.

Director Kern Konwiser’s talks about the series: “The documentary bears witness to the physical and emotional cost paid by American soldiers who, after years of fighting to win the war in Iraq, are now cast into an unfamiliar and unsettling role of winning the peace with non-traditional weapons: talking, trust building, and cash. These tactics stopped the violence and saved lives; it is fascinating, and sometimes unsettling, to see our own soldiers helping and handing out weekly payments larger than what most soldiers earn in a year to the very people who were trying to kill them just weeks before.”

I’m planning on checking it out…My eyes opened up when I took a trip to Afghanistan to do a comedy USO Tour, and NEVER realized what those guys went through day to day until I was there. It was eye-opening, and really intense.

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