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side, the battle proved the deadliest entanglement of Operation Anaconda, an effort early in the War in Afghanistan to rout al. Our best guess is that we’re looking at a 2023 release. The Battle of Takur Ghar was a short but intense military engagement between United States special operations forces and al-Qaeda insurgents fought in March 2002, atop Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. Gyllenhaal currently is filming a Michael Bay action picture called “Ambulance,” and Hargrave owes Netflix a sequel to the new action classic “Extraction,” so it’s likely to be a few months or even next year before “Combat Control” begins filming.
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The film deserved more awards attention than it got at the time, but Hollywood just couldn’t quit Gyllenhaal’s other big movie that year, “Brokeback Mountain,” and gave him his only Oscar nomination for his role in that movie instead of his lead performance in “Jarhead.” Gyllenhaal made a huge impression when he played Marine sniper Anthony Swofford in “Jarhead,” a 2005 movie based on Swofford’s memoir about his service in the Gulf War.


Chapman was the first Air Force member to be recognized with a Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. The Combat Controllers are a highly classified unit, and the emergence of Chapman’s story in recent years has been the first most Americans have heard of their work.
