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Honor Flight reminds veteran of Iraq missions
Piece of scrap metal is a souvenir veteran will never forget. Honor Flight reminds veteran of missions and souvenirs.
We're taking a look back at some of the Emmy award-winning reporter's most impactful stories across his four-decade career ...
In March 2025, a number of social media posts claimed a video of the first Black female American officer to die in combat had ...
The film, based on director and retired Special Warfare Operator First Class Ray Mendoza's real-world experience in the Iraq ...
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's 'Warfare' recreates a mission in Ramadi gone wrong hits with visceral and personal details.
At best, Warfare is an artfully made recreation; at worst it is naked military propaganda set during one of the country’s most egregious moments of imperialism.
But the point is less the identities of the men as it is a shared morning during the bloodiest battle in the Iraq War. It binds them and seeks to bind the audience as well to the utter ...
No attempt is made to explain why these SEALs are on a surveillance mission of an Al Qaeda holdout, nor is there any real moral reckoning with the Iraq War. One wonders why Garland and co-director ...
Last year filmmaker Alex Garland gave us the "anti-war" movie Civil War, and now he's continued to push the boundaries of our concept of war films with Warfare (in theatres April 11). Co-writing and ...
While filming Civil War, Garland was introduced to Iraq war veteran Ray Mendoza, who’d been hired to make sure the film’s gunfight sequences looked as realistic as possible. In November 2006 ...