‘Citizen Soldier’ Tells Story Of A National Guard Unit’s Hellish Afghan Deployment
By Adam Linehan
on August 30, 2016
A new documentary focuses on a National Guard unit’s hellish year-long tour in Afghanistan and its aftermath.
A few years ago, directors David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud were introduced to a young sergeant in the Oklahoma National Guard who had combat footage from his deployment to eastern Afghanistan in 2011. The sergeant, Eran Harrill, explained that he was hoping to make a film, but he didn’t want it to be about him. Instead, he wanted it to be about some of the soldiers who didn’t make it back from that deployment alive.
“This guy was so passionate about what he thought he had, and honoring his fallen brothers,” Salzberg told Task & Purpose. “It’s never easy to make a movie, but it was easy to gravitate towards this amazing story he had, which is a ‘band of brothers and sisters’ set in present-day Afghanistan.”
http://taskandpurpose.com/citizen-soldier-tells-story-national-guard-units-hellish-afghan-deployment/
