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“12 Strong” is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth), is chosen to be ...
- Why Was The Oda 595 Team Chosen For The Afghanistan Mission?
- Does The Movie Really Tell The "Declassified True Story of The Horse Soldiers?"
- How Many of The Real Horse Soldiers Are Actually mentioned by Name in The Film?
- Did Mark Nutsch Carry A Piece of Steel with Him from The World Trade Center?
- Was There Really A Strong Chance That They Wouldn't Survive The Mission?
- Did Mark Nutsch Really Have Prior Experience on Horseback?
- Did Michael Shannon's Real-Life Counterpart Nearly Die?
- Is The Final Battle in The Movie Depicted accurately?
- What Do The Real-Life Horse Soldiers Think of The Movie?
- Who Is The Horse Soldiers Monument at Ground Zero Based on?
ODA 595 was an experienced, mature team of Green Berets that had recently worked with special operations forces in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan's northern neighbor. The team had been working together for two years and the average age was 32 years old. Each member had an average of eight years experience and most had combat experience in either Desert St...
Yes, but the tagline is a bit of an exaggeration. The movie isn't revealing anything new. The mission stopped being a secret on November 16, 2001, a mere two months after 9/11. It was then that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld showed the press an image of a bearded Green Beret on a horse and explained that the man was directing air strikes agai...
Only two of the characters in the film actually have the same names as their real-life Green Beret counterparts. Both of the named Green Berets are commanding officers, John Mulholland and Max Bowers. As for why the names were changed, one article stated that the studio did not want to have to pay all of the real-life people for the rights to use t...
Not exactly. The 12 Strong movie has Chris Hemsworth's character (Mark Nutsch in real life) being given the candy-bar-sized piece of metal by Colonel Mulholland. In Doug Stanton's book Horse Soldiers, it was Colonel Max Bowers, portrayed by Rob Riggle, who brought a piece of steel with him from the World Trade Center to Afghanistan. Payback was cer...
The movie finds the soldiers being told that there is a good chance they won't survive the mission. Later, one is shown penning a goodbye letter to his family. The risk they were taking was indeed that great. "They didn't expect us to survive," Mark Nutsch said. "The threat of capture, torture was very real." Furthermore, as shown in the movie, the...
Yes. Chris Hemsworth's character's real-life counterpart, Mark Nutsch, had worked on a cattle ranch when he was younger and was one of the few members of the 12-man team who had experience riding horses. He also used to compete in collegiate rodeos. Like in the 12 Strong movie, Nutsch helped teach the other team members how to ride. Fittingly, a lo...
No. In real life, Bob Pennington wasn't badly injured by a surrendering enemy fighter who blew himself up with his own grenade, an act that leaves Michael Shannon's character clinging to life as his fellow soldiers hurry to extract him. Shannon's character is wounded in the movie for dramatic effect. It never happened in real life, though Penningto...
No. "The battle at the end was not depicted accurately," says the real Bob Pennington. "We dispersed the team at several positions along the ridges of the Tiangi." He points out that the word "Tiangi" actually means gap, so when they refer to the "Tiangi gap" in the movie, they're actually saying the gap, gap. Pennington said that with regard to th...
"We think they got it, they got the spirit of the Special Forces team in the post-9/11 moment in American history," said team leader Mark Nutsch, portrayed by Chris Hemsworth in the movie. Despite the movie accurately capturing the soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan, the real-life heroes have said that the movie does take artistic liberties, add...
The Horse Soldiers monument in New York City is not based on any one person. No one individual was the model for the statue. "I created the face without the use of models or photos," said artist Douwe Blumberg, who designed the statue in collaboration with Mark Nutsch. It was put on display across from Ground Zero in 2012. Infiltrate the 12 Strongt...
Jan 18, 2018 · These 12 solders were outnumbered by the Taliban as they worked with Afghan rebels. Mulholland, played by William Fichtner, is one of the few whose names weren’t changed for the film. Andy ...
Jan 19, 2018 · Rob Riggle plays then-Lieutenant Colonel Max Bowers, 3rd battalion commander, 5th Special Forces Group. Riggle, a Marine, actually served directly under the real Bowers during the same time period the movie is based on. According to Riggle, Bowers "loved" his representation in the film.
Jan 19, 2018 · This is the Harrowing, Real-Life Story Behind the Movie '12 Strong'. By Elizabeth M. Collins. WASHINGTON – The movie “12 Strong” arrives in theaters on Jan. 19, and tells the harrowing story of the first U.S. Special Forces mission in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
