That tragedy occurred on December 5, 2001. soldiers to battle on horseback since 1942), and the 574, a group of soldiers torn apart by tragedy. “It always caused a degree of uncertainty and a degree of pain, but that’s the dilemma of war.”īarker’s film contrasts scenes of the camaraderie of the 595, a tight-knit group that famously rode horses through treacherous mountain passes and into battle alongside Afghan rebels (becoming the first U.S. I would sometimes wait hours to authorize an air strike so that we were absolutely certain.” He pauses.
“That was the part of the air strikes in general that always left me uneasy, was it was very easy to authorize air strikes. I just killed a lot of people,” he continues. “It was a moment that I knew I had to appreciate I had to take it to heart. “This was the first time I was in a shooting war-the first time for most of us-and that very first air strike, how do you know they’re the enemy? It’s a very simple, awful, terrible question of how do you know? And yet you need to be a leader and be decisive,” Amerine tells me. “I just felt like I should’ve been looking the enemy in the eye before I killed them,” he says in the film. soldiers and Afghan freedom fighters’ lives, but also claimed those of dozens of Taliban insurgents. In one of Legion of Brothers’ most poignant scenes, Amerine expresses mixed feelings about ordering the bombing-a move that saved all the U.S. air strikes with Karzai “to make sure the Afghans owned it.” One such air strike featured in the film occurred during the Battle of Tarin Kowt, which saw Amerine’s 12-man team and about 50 members of the Afghan militia beat back an approaching convoy of 500 Taliban with the help of air support. That strategy included coordinating regularly with Karzai and his Afghan militiamen so as to make sure everyone was on the same page, even clearing U.S.
“It was left to the teams on the ground to figure it out and we developed a coherent strategy as we went along.”
Render Afghanistan unusable by al-Qaeda,” says Amerine. “There was only the outline of the plan, and the plan was: link up with the Northern Alliance, who were warlords that wanted to fight the Taliban anyway, and use that to eradicate al-Qaeda. Amerine commanded the 574, whose 12-man team was first deployed to Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan. Directed by Greg Barker ( Manhunt), the film focuses on the 595 and 574, two Special Forces teams who, in the weeks and months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, were ordered on a secret mission in Afghanistan to team up with Hamid Karzai’s Northern Alliance and help defeat the Taliban. His team’s actions in the War in Afghanistan are chronicled in the new documentary Legion of Brothers, now playing in theaters. Army sergeant who was captured by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network after deserting his platoon. To the general public, LTC Amerine is perhaps best known as the Episode 5 star of Serial’s second season, an Army colonel stationed at the Pentagon and tasked with devising a plan to help bring home Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, and the first military man chosen for the America’s Army Real Heroes program: an initiative touting the “extraordinary courage” of real-life soldiers, with their likenesses featured in the America’s Army video game and on action figures sold across the country. He was also a guest of honor at George W. Lieutenant Colonel Amerine is a decorated soldier, having commanded a team of Green Berets during the War in Afghanistan-with the story of his 12-man A-Team immortalized in Eric Blehm’s bestselling book The Only Thing Worth Dying For.
And in the military, you need to have faith in your leaders in order to do some pretty dangerous things.” Once you’ve done it, you lose something about the blind faith you have. “Fighting the system-taking on the system-is another thing where you either do it or you don’t, but once you’ve done it you realize what’s behind the curtain when the Wizard of Oz is there. “Killing people, you either get past it or you don’t,” Jason Amerine tells me.
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