Non-Featured Soldiers with Cameras Bios

These soldiers, though not featured, filmed their entire deployment and their footage plays a crucial role in the film.

SERGEANT DUNCAN DOMEY, 32, grew up in the Netherlands with a Dutch mother and American father. He moved to the United States when he was 18, and was deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11. Here are excerpts of an e-mail he sent to Deborah March 2, 2004:

From: Currently Londonderry, but moved there in Sept. Before that 3 years at Ft Drum NY in the 10th Mountain Div (active duty).

Family: My father piloted B-52's and Vulcan's in the USAF, leading him to Europe. He was out of the service when he met my mother over there.

Sports: Target/Tactical Shooting, hiking, skiing

Read/Think: Military history, the Economist, fantasy/sci-fi

After 9/11: By the end of September we were in Uzbekistan guarding K2 airfield while the Special Forces did their now infamous housecleaning in Afghanistan. My old unit, and the guys from my squad are now back in Afghanistan for a second rotation. When I found out they were going I tried to extend my contract, but was refused. So now I get an all expenses paid trip to Iraq with the National Guard instead. I feel like I am on a grand tour of the Muslim part of the world. When not in the guard, I was working on a graduate degree from Texas A&M (online) in Advanced International Affairs.

SPECIALIST BRANDON WILKINS shot some of the most dramatic combat footage in THE WAR TAPES. He had just turned his camera on when his squad was attacked by insurgents in Fallujah, capturing the extreme chaos of the moment. He is from Brunswick, Maine. These are excerpts from an e-mail he sent to Deborah May 28, 2004:

So, about me. Well, I was born in Brunswick, ME on Dec. 6th, 1977. It was a blizzard the night I was born. Actually it was almost on the 7th. The doctor actually asked my mom if she didn't want to wait about 15 min, then I would be born on Pearl Harbor day. She didn't find that too amusing at the time.

I was involved in Scouting since I was 10. During high school, I was highly involved in the theater. I started out with acting. But soon after that I discovered my true love of the theater... Lighting and Tech. After high school, I joined the Army. I wasn't going to. I would never join the Army. If I joined anything, it would be the Coast Guard. But I joined the Army. The 101st. Airborne (Air Assault) Div.

When my enlistment came up, I decided that it was time to move home. I missed Maine too much. I had just finished my training at Barber Foods in Portland, ME. I got out to my Jeep, and had a message from Maj. Slaytor from the NH National Guard. I was being activated, and assigned to C Co. 3/172nd. IN (MTN). That came as a bit of a shock to me and my family. But being the tough Mainers that we are, we have all moved through this very well. The company was very good to me. I've met some life long friends in C. Company. I couldn't think of anybody else that I would rather have to go to war with.