Lone Survivor realistic or not? What was your favorite part?

I thought it was a pretty good movie and if half the stuff in the movie actually happened to them, like those falls down the rock faces and multiple GSWs than all I can say is Holy Sh!t these guys were some mean hombres. The bottom line is they had an objective and being that they couldn't complete that objective they had to attempt to get out of there one way or another.

I would detain the goat herder and take him with me to close to the extraction point, and then let him go when I knew the aircraft was close to my position.

i had quite a few problems with the movie. i have been told that i should read the book that the movie came from, it was much more accurate to accounts. probs that i had with the film, i couldnt believe that the team would be left on the mountain without a constant and reliable retrans to maintain coms, and that the sig operator wouldnt have more kit and ability to improvise to maintain coms at all times... their support appeared to be slow and awkward when it came to making to to maintain contact and support with the team as well, like they were set up to fail the mission, which is hard to believe that seals or any s/f would allow that to happen.. as to what to do with the prisoners, they would have kept them prisoner until they could get confirmation that extraction was confirmed and on the way, all that arguement was a bunch of unnecessary movie drama, imo, and they wouldnt have been b/sing the way they were about horses and stuff if they knew that they had problems with coms and extraction. misson success first, all other things second.. next, their fight with the taliban looked awkward and weak and rookie to me, also probably staged that way for movie drama. 2 members had grenade launchers and failed to use them. they all had helmets but failed to use them and fell off the mountain side without helmets, looked rookie or again movie staged to me.. just saying..

My question relates to what lessons learned from that mission, are drugs to disable even an option these days? Just asking folks.

There was no favorite part. The only good news was Marcus Luttrell make it home alive to let us know what happened on this mission. There was also a significant lost of life on the rescue team. This added to the bad news. I remove my white hat in tribute to those who risk their life every day so we have the luxury of making pancakes for breakfast. Hooyah, Hooah, Oorah, or what ever floats your boat.

With regards to Hollywood and their CGI and filming of combat is highly fake and hugely exaggerated for the movie goers entertainment. That being said, Peter Burg and cast and crew did an amazing job. In my opinion it's the only Hollywood movie that has come close to what a firefight is like. The sounds of the weapons and whizzes of bullets are excellent. The two main aspects that really impressed me was their use of explosions and how their grenades and RPG'S looked and acted close to reality and they don't make a giant fireball when exploding and don't completely level a 50 meter area and the use of the casts fire and maneuver tactics, weapons and gear handling, communication and uniform and equipment selection and setup were some of the best ever done in a Hollywood film. Overall I thought the movie was an outstanding portrayal of those men, their tremendous fighting spirit and brotherhood. And was best portrayal of combat since saving private ryan.

I found it hard to believe that the higher headquarters did not have an aircraft standing by to either pick them up or fly over the area to reestablish commo with the team after they failed to make their routine report ins.

That was one bad ass kid. I liked the rescue.

Rank is one thing when your in uniform. But when your out of the milatary not many people care what your rank was. We are all brothers and sisters. Most vets will have your 6.