Reserved to Fight (2008)

Directed by

Chantelle Squires

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

57 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows four Marine reservists from one battalion before, during, and after their deployment to Iraq. It shows their return home and the different ways each man adjusts to civilian life, including struggles with posttraumatic stress.

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What happens

Reserved to Fight is a documentary film that follows four Marine Reservists of Fox Company 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines for four years. It documents their deployment, their return home from Iraq combat in May 2003, and their reintegration into civilian life. Their battalion was the first reserve unit activated for Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were also the first to return home. The film deals with the lives of the friends as they come to grips with the harsh reality of reassuming civilian life. Each has a different experience, some dealing with varying degrees of posttraumatic stress disorder. The film is notable for following the first reservists deployed in the Iraq War, and therefore the first of these Marines to begin the reintegration process. Reserved to Fight aired on PBS nationwide in 2008, and has been broadcast in 8 countries and several film festivals. It was screened in various venues across the country: in individual military mental health symposiums, a suicide prevention treatment program by the Montana National Guard, and the University of Utah's soldier integration program. Reserved To Fight was directed and produced by Chantelle Squires of MirrorLake Films. Manju Varghese and Coby Broyles also served as producers, with Sterling Van Wagenen as the executive producer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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