We watched FRONTLINE last night. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/

The entire program was disturbing but the part that we found absolutely chilling was Sgt. Nunn advising his men to put loosened tourniquets on their legs in case they hit an IED. Then when one of their humvees does hit an IED they stand around all day in the scorching sun waiting for Kellogg Brown & Root before another platoon finally comes along and helps them.

And this all takes place during the relative calm of the so-called 'surge'.

FRONTLINE goes to war in Iraq with a band of California-based National Guard soldiers who call themselves the "Bad Voodoo Platoon" to tell their very personal story in Bad Voodoo's War. To record their war, from private reflections to real-time footage of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on the ground, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) creates a "virtual embed," supplying cameras to the soldiers of the Bad Voodoo Platoon and working with them to shape an intimate portrait that reveals the hard grind of their war.

Through their daily experiences, acting platoon leader Sgt. 1st Class Toby Nunn, originally from British Columbia and the father of three, and Spc. Jason Shaw, a 23-year-old from Texas, give us a firsthand look at the impact of the U.S. military's policy of multiple deployments to Iraq and how the Army's role has changed on the ground.