The PBS show Frontline is doing a documentary titled "A Company of
Soldiers" to be aired on Tuesday, February 22nd. They followed
the 8th Calvary's Dog Company around last November and December. My
cousin, Capt. Rex Blair, is in this unit and we couldn't be more proud of him
and his men. They've been doing a lot of reconstruction as well as police
work in in one of the worst parts of Baghdad and can't wait for them to come
home in the next month or so.
FRONTLINE reports from inside the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment
stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an
American military unit in Iraq. Shot in the weeks following the U.S.
presidential election, the film tracks the day-to-day challenges facing the 8th
Cavalry's Dog Company as it suddenly has to cope with a dramatic increase in
attacks by the insurgents.