AC 130 Spectre Gunship Harvath and his team eagerly await the arrival of an AC -130 gunship in the closing scenes of THE APOSTLE. A converted cargo plane, the heavily armed aircraft houses mounted weapons and firing ports. Manned by a United States Air Force crew of 13, the gunships are most often used for close air support, reconnaissance, and...
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GEAR “Everybody’s got a little light under the sun.” – from Flash Light by Parliament Flashlights In THE APOSTLE, Scot Harvath finds a pair of Streamlight’s Sidewinder flashlights for his team to navigate a tunnel below Kabul. With the 185-degree tilting head pointed toward the ground, clipped to operator’s belts, and set to emit green light, these flashlights would illuminate the underground...
1. In THE APOSTLE, Scot Harvath mused that, “Accountability as well as personal responsibility had been chucked out the window of American culture… abdicated by the American voter.” He compared it to the Roman’s notion of bread and circuses: “as long as people had food (McDonald’s) and fun (American Idol) they didn’t care much about the erosion of their nation.”...
THE APOSTLE opens with a quote from George Orwell: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Orwell was referring to women and men like my friend Jim Erwin, who served ably as a Special Operations soldier for more than a decade, and is a highly skilled sniper and counter terrorism, hostage rescue,...