Sentences with phrase «casualty notification»

In The Messenger (2009), combat veteran Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) may be «a goddamn hero,» in the words of his commanding officer, but in the final months of his enlistment he's assigned to the most challenging mission of his career: casualty notification and the emotional minefield of civilians dealing with the death of a loved -LSB-...]

On one such visit, Foster's traumatised casualty notification officer begins a tentative relationship with a widow, tenderly played by Samantha Morton.

With three months to go before his enlistment period ends and he returns to civilian life, Montgomery is redeployed to the casualty notification team under the formidable command of Captain Tony Stone, played by Woody Harrelson: they will be a two - man outfit whose job is to show up in uniform at the houses of next of kin and inform them that their sons and husbands and wives and daughters have been killed on active service.

He offers the audience a neat twist on the classic old - hand - plus - rookie routine, and also makes his casualty notification team look a little like John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

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It follows members of the U.S. Army's Casualty Notification Office, whose grim task is to immediately notify next - of - kin of battlefield casualties in Iraq, before the news media and Internet can broadcast the bad news.