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Under the cover of night, the platoon walks the streets of Ramadi and chooses a location for their sniper mission.

"To see these guys not obey orders - and do what they needed to save their platoon was interesting to me," he says, talking about the soldiers' evacuation process.

Mendoza was there when his platoon took over an Iraqi home for a lookout and then came under heavy fire.

The movie is based on Mendoza’s own experiences during the Iraq war and is slightly fictionalized to protect some platoon members’ identities.

With the RPF in power, Makenga was absorbed into the official Rwandan army and rose to the rank of sergeant and deputy platoon commander.