a5c7b9f00b Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy winning war correspondent, Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, spend over a year covering the most violent era of the Afghanistan war. With cameras rolling, they are side by side with American forces in some of the conflict&#39;s toughest battles. Their story is compared to &quot;Lone Survivor&quot; meets &quot;Blackhawk Down&quot; except 100% REAL,Mike and Carlos discover that the family bond they seek is right in front of them - displayed daily in the actions of the Soldiers and Marines who sacrifice everything to save the lives of their brothers. These stories capturedthey happen on Afghanistan&#39;s battlefields, The Hornet&#39;s Nest is the definitive film of America&#39;s longest war. Career Journalist Mike Boettcher takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts outan effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all. ~By Andrew Buncombe – 10 January 2011~<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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, largelya result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,wellchanges in military doctrine.<br/><br/>Based on this report, and further proved by this pathetic documentary, we have to think reversely from the insurgents&#39; 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 summarizedfollow:<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>There&#39;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 &quot;Inglorious Bastards&quot; eating away our tax. I rest my case. 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&#39;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.<br/><br/>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 executionwellbeen a survivor of suicide bombing. Carlos and Mike embedded themselves with U.S. Army&#39;s 101st Airborne Division to bring their perspective of the war in Afghanistan. His coverage dates back to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 bondfather and son.<br/><br/>I feel they have made sacrifices for uswell… The Hornet's Nest servesa somewhat effective bonding exercise for father and son. But the best of what it has to offer moves beyond that, and puts us alongside the people fighting a daily battle and, sometimes, heartbreakingly, losing the fight.
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