12 Strong (2018) on Netflix
After the September 11 attacks, Captain Mitch Nelson volunteers to lead his Green Beret team into Afghanistan. They join Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Northern Alliance leader battling the Taliban.
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Plot summary
On September 11, 2001, Captain Mitch Nelson is moving his wife and daughter into a new home when the attacks break, and he volunteers to lead his Green Beret detachment into Afghanistan. Lieutenant Colonel Bowers turns him down; Hal Spencer, a veteran warrant officer due to retire, argues for Nelson and joins the deployment himself. The team leaves its families, reaches Uzbekistan in October, and is chosen after a briefing by Colonel Mulholland to work with Northern Alliance leader Abdul Rashid Dostum. Flown in covertly, the soldiers land south of Mazar-i-Sharif and meet the warlord, who is fighting Taliban leader Mullah Razzan. Nelson takes six men into the mountains with Dostum; the rest hold a camp they call the Alamo under Spencer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 12 Strong (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rob Riggle joined the film to play Army Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers, the officer under whom Riggle actually served while he was a U.S. Marine Captain.
- Military planners predicted the mission would take two years, but Task Force Dagger did it in three weeks, and Al Qaeda considers this to be their worst defeat.
- In 2012, to honor their extraordinary heroism, a statue of a Horse Soldier was dedicated at the World Trade Center site, and in 2014 General Dostum became Vice President of Afghanistan.
