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Pamy

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 05:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ABC is billing this as a 'Reality show'. My Dh was deployed last year and was filmed by Jerry Brukheimer(sp?)and his crews. He was told it would air last July and be more like a documentary, when it never showed up we figured they scraped the idea. Well looks like they got enough interesting stuff to make it a series. It is on against Survivor so I doubt it will get high ratings but I thought I would pass it along. My DH was on the USS Lake Champlain and they filmed him and his crew doing boardings looking for bad guys and illegal shipments.

Moondance

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 05:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool Pamy!:)

Seamonkey

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy, be sure to nudge us when it comes on!!

I bet that's one reality show he won't mind you watching..

Pamy

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 06:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually I have been teasing him about it! When I saw they were advertising it as a reality show I was rolling! (He hates all reality shows!)I told him there is a new reality show comming on that I want to tape each week, he goes 'Not another one!' I said 'I hear they might have a really hot guy on it that he is married to one of the sexiest women!'

Seamonkey

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:)

Sawheel17

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay!!

Moondance

Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy I just say a commercial for it! I am so excited that we get to see your hubby... He has an absolute fabu wife you know!

Pamy

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 07:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Too bad we didn't know in advance, I could have had him give us all a shout out!! Yeah I can just see it, right in the middle of catching a terrorist he looks into the camera this is for all of you at TVCH!! LOL

Seamonkey

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL.. he could have gotten a TVCH tattoo!!

Maybe you should call CBS and have them film you watching the first episode and then you can both shout out to TVCH!!

Yeah, right.

Not1worry

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 03:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When is this going to air? My husband was saying something about his commander being in it also, but he was really sketchy on details. I have no idea if it's even the same show. They were in Afghanistan. The local news wanted to send a camera crew with his platoon and he refused. He said he'd never get any work done with them around, but I just wanted to see him on the news!

Jhezzie

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think this show will be cool! No matter where you are on the war debate, we have thousands of wonderfull people out there that should be showcased for the great and honorable job they are doing for us.:)

Pamy

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think it starts this Thurs 8pm (westcoast) on ABC. If not this Thurs then for sure next Thurs.
Sea...I don't think CBS would want to film us watching a show on ABC, but good idea though!! lol

Moondance

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 03:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
8:00 PM Channel 7 KABC Thursday, 27
Profiles from the Front Line
60 min.
Debut: Members of U.S. Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan are followed in this six-part documentary series, which has no narration.
The opener includes footage of soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division leaving Fort Bragg (N.C.) for Khost and the harsh realization, as one of them puts it, that this is for real [and] isn't a training exercise. There are also scenes of a mission to apprehend an Al Qaeda suspect in a compound at Orgun; and activity at an aircraft hot refuel site, where a soldier talks poignantly about missing his wife. For two minutes, every 10 days, when I talk to her on the phone, those two minutes are the hardest two minutes I have here.

Pamy

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 04:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Talk on the phone every 10 days!!????? My DH called me twice in the 7mo he was gone!!!
Thanks for the info Moonie, It doesn't sound like my Dh footage will be in the first episode and who knows they may not show any of the footage they shot with him in it..we will see.

Seamonkey

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Details, details, details, Pamy.. so call ABC news :) But maybe you can get CBS to do a profile of your Sailor and you and TVCH and run it against this in the same timeslot? I'm SURE they'd postpone Survivor for this..

Pamy

Monday, February 24, 2003 - 05:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Sea!!

Not1worry

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 05:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh my goodness, this is my husband's unit too! Hmmm....how do I tell him that I have to tape Survivor while we watch it.

Pamy

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1...if you are like me, you will tell him you want to tape this show and WATCH Survivor.
ps..what unit is your DH with? He is home now right?

Not1worry

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy, we're at Ft. Bragg with 1-505 PIR, the 82nd Abn. He returned in January, thank God. It's crazy here, I would guess of all my friends here, 3 out of 4 have husbands gone or getting ready to go. I'm really interested to see the Navy aspect of things! I trained with Navy when I was in the Army many moons ago.

And my husband called my about every week, except for when he was in Bagram and bored silly and called me 3 times a day. You kind of hate to complain about him calling, but after a while it was like "Ok, Hon, what now? I do have a few things to do here at home! I can't talk on the phone all day and night with you." That was only for a few weeks though. We never got to do the video teleconferencing.

Pamy

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1...LOL about the phone calls, I know what ya mean. With us it was emails, I would work all day on computer, come home do all that work, then get emails from him asking why I haven't written in the last few hours. We can laugh now cuz they are home, thank God! My heart goes out to all the families that have men/women going over there now.
Be sure and let us know if your DH is on the show this week

Not1worry

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 06:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, Pamy, was your hubby on? Mine was on for about 2 seconds while they were in the aircraft. He was one of the ones yawning, LOL. But his commander, his LT, and several of his troops were profiled. In fact almost the whole first 10 minutes was his bunch! It was kind of emotional for both of us. He's been home for 7 weeks now, and we'd kind of put it behind us.

The black kid that was interviewed a lot, Fields, that's his soldier- he's nicknamed The Anaconda because he hisses when he laughs. That was a really neat show. I guess we may see more of my husband's unit over the weeks. I didn't realize they were going to follow them week to week. I thought it would just be one episode and that would be it. I have to watch it again though, I could really hear anything because my husband kept shouting out who was who and trying to point at some distant figure that was him.

Curlyq

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That was really interesting but I almost hope they move it to a better time slot so it won't have to compete with Survivor again. It seems like it's too important and serious to be thrown in as just another reality show. It's amazing and almost surreal that we can now watch the war on a weekly TV series. I'm glad these men and women are getting a chance to speak for themselves and show how they do their jobs.

Pamy

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool Not1!!! You will have to save the tape of the show for your kids/grandkids, not many that are deployed are on a tv show. I am so happy you get to watch the show with your DH! I hope he gets to stay home for awhile. Thank God my DH retired last Aug. LOl about him yawning! My DH wasn't in this one and he said he doesn't think he will be in the next one from the previews.

Ryn

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 11:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone know the status of this show?

The official site hasn't been updated since the war.

Pamy

Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 06:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn...it's on ABC so that should tell you! They have pulled it midstream and will start it again when it suits them!