Iraq War Veteran Rates 10 Iraq War Battles In Movies & TV Shows | How Real Is It? | Insider
Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is portrayed in movies and TV shows. He looks at the realism of sniper …
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February 19, 2026
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That PTSD scene is pretty impressive. Nice to see it discussed.
After his comments about “The Hurt Locker” I exited. He states he never used a wagon to deliver C4 to detonate a bomb, but then criticized its usage. He also starts to politicize his review of different scenes. It’s interesting that both Clint Eastwood and Catherine Bigelow had actual military advisors and former Navy SEALs work with them to ensure accuracy in their films. Frankly, I’m not inclined to give this guy a lot of credence.
Never stop making these. Please ask the person as much as possible what their favorite movie is. I love it when you do that
07:45 it is important to not forget who egged us into going into such a war with innumerable negative reverberations. Among others, there was a certain foreign individual who sat in the US senate to push this false narrative with confident lies, and is doing the same to get us involved into another war with a different country at this time.
Respect to our selfless service men, citizens, tax payers and also the innocent civilians of other countries who are just trying to live in peace.
I have to say thank you for talking about PTSD, not many people talk about it, but people really need to understand the physical and mental dangers that can come from it. I will say that the team dynamic that the people did for the one person to get him through his episode brought a tear to my eye, due to going through those same episodes myself, and having that personal group to get through it like he did.
nah, his comment on the movie The Wall is not thoroughly thought off. they are in the middle of an open field and they dont know where the shots were coming from. the reason he was zig zagging is to avoid getting hit as he dont know where the shot was coming from and they are in an open field. no point hiding in the bush if you are right in the crosshair. and low crawling? yeah might as well stand up and hand over your head to the sniper.
That big of a fireball is just because Hollywood loves fireballs. Because normal explosions are boring.
— SO, THE "SERPENTINE" RUN . . . does not work?
Please tell me The Green Zone is on this list
There were over 10k WMD recovered in Iraq. Granted, it wasn’t an active program which was pitched to the American people/UN (most of it was produced during the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980s), but to say no WMD was found in Iraq is not true. A lot of dudes were literally hurt trying to recover them.
This poor guy. This is absolutely terrifying. Good on him.
22:44 Haha, many Iraqi videos show the opposite. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Billy Lynn was seriously impressive, the reality of a gun fight and even the way RPGs are shown as really fast projectiles that hit and blow with a directional component to it. RPGs don't fly slow, they really move and they do not make a big fire ball either. AP is their purpose and they are damn good at it and they do have a shaped charge so a directional blast would be expected. Movies get that wrong so often!
Usa destroy iraq for fake reason of having wmd. And simple soldiers of us sent to die for greed of business man who went there to control oil and steal from Iran and kill one million iraqi it was war crime and act terrorist but who did this live free
In addition to the method of use, Billy Lynn might also be one of the only accurate depictions I've ever seen of how an AT-4 actually functions. It's a shell that goes boom, not a rocket that goes whoosh
Engineers Clear The Way 🫡
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Why wouldn’t the turret system be protected like the pope mobile?
I thought the sniper guy reviewing sniper scenes said the snipers can call in airstrikes. This guy is saying snipers absolutely do not do that and it's the ground commander. Who's right?
Also at 20:24 he talks about how convoys stick together. But there's definitely some boot videos on youtube where people are talking about their truck is slow for some reason and they get left behind and it's basically every man for himself. In one video, the guy says he was carrying water and MREs and his brilliant idea to speed up the truck was to dump all the water at the fueling truck stop which caused it to become muddy.
Who is this guy, he give total garbage movies high rank and good ones low. Says an end tech placing a charge on an ied is not what they do….
Spent the entire year in 2005 running convoys in Iraq on route anaconda with the 3ID. Some of most anxiety inducing things I have ever did in my life
We never seen the wire dude, they buried the command wire. Every time. That’s just lazy terrorism lol😂
This dude's honesty about PTSD and WMD's is bittersweet. Im glad he is on our side. Seems like a solid guy.
They still do teach a bit of route clearence still. But not alot. My last company actually began to disband their route clearance platoon and divide them between 1st and 2nd platoons. And big engineer dad is disbanding all route clearance from what im hearing.
The number of times our convoy had to stop on the road and wait cause EOD found IEDs on the road and were being detonated in place was wild. Sometimes we'd be close enough that debris would rain down on us.
20 WOMEN VS 1 RAPPER :
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in the army when your patroling and your buddies too close you YELL GTFO AWAY FROM ME… lol its a drill you do prior. its literally because of being grouped together to avoid mass casualties.
Was Gold and some artifacts they wanted. For the whole WMD campaign, america was hollering about.
Is Haditta Dam in Call of Duty MW2??
7:50 rip to our soldiers. The inside job on nine 11 got us into an imaginary war. Just a game of chess for power