A Prestige Drama Series · 13 Episodes · Season One

THE
BUSHMEN

A new Green Beret joins his team in Afghanistan and is drawn into the violent, absurd, and deeply human world of Special Forces combat — where men become legends, and every tale leaves a scar.

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"She will love you, but only a little... and in the end, she will leave you for a younger man." — James R. Ward, OSS

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THE TRUTH ON TAPE

// Real footage. Real operations. 2013–2014 Afghanistan.

Jason Green, ODA 3336
Jason A. Green · ODA 3336 · Nangarhar Province, 2014

The Series

NOT THE
MYTH.
THE TRUTH.

For twenty years, every portrayal of Special Forces on screen has been sanitized. Hero-worshipped. Politicized. The Bushmen is the corrective — built on nine combat deployments of lived experience, told with the brutal honesty the subject demands.

Jason Green — 36D1 SF Medic — moves across three ODAs during a single 2013–2014 deployment cycle. Each team is a distinct world. Each mission leaves a mark. The chaos, the boredom, the violence, the laughter, the grief — and the brotherhood that makes survival possible.

"Generation Kill meets The Bear — unsanitized military realism, intimate character drama, dark humor, and the emotional cost of brotherhood."
Brutal Authenticity

Objective camera. No score during contact. The truth of what it actually looks like.

Dark Humor

Gallows humor as survival mechanism. The absurdity is real. So is the laughter.

Intimate Character

Seven men on a team. You know every one of them before the first shot is fired.

Emotional Cost

What goes downrange stays downrange. What comes home is a different problem.

Season One

2013–2014
AFGHAN-
ISTAN

Thirteen episodes. One deployment. The season opens with a green-on-blue attack at VSO Jalrez — objective camera, no score, just the truth — and ends with Jason on a HLZ at Bagram, coming home. What happens in between is the show.

Jason moves across ODA 3336 ("Knucks & Chucks"), 3335 ("Necessary Evil"), and 3334 ("Death Machine MC") — the connective tissue of three very different worlds. Episode 8: he is shot in the head. The visual grammar fractures with him. Episodes 9–13 are not recovery. They are reckoning.

Every episode ends with an Every Time I Die track. Music is POV — never omniscient.

01
Jalrez — The Pilot
Green-on-blue attack. Objective camera. No score. Jay arrives, reports to SGM, meets ODA 3336. The sandbag throne. The Mason story. The fire pit. He is home. 58 pages — complete and available.
02
3334 / 3335
George Bannar KIA in Wardak. Chuck codes twice, survives. The Shank memorial.
03
The New Guy
Funeral detail. Lindsey: "Come back to me." The DUI story. The acid trip.
04
Welcome to Kunduz
Abandoned airbase. Chinook insertion. First kill — handled with restraint.
05
The Dirty Side
"Fancy" by Iggy Azalea. Wrong-side insertion. Chuck shot. Danger-close 500lb bomb.
06
The Last Night in Kunduz
RPG ambush. JJ roof circus. The last fist pound with Mikey Cathcart.
07
The Ones Who Come Home
Pitch Perfect — last pure lightness. CIB awarding. Civilian casualty. Moral center.
08
Nangarhar
Thanksgiving. Equipment prep ritual. The contact. Blunt force. Sky spinning. Cut to black.
09
The Coin Has a Say
ISR: perfect L-shaped ambush. Airstrike denied. "Get off my fingers." "Treat yourself."
10
The Waiting Room
Lindsey's side of the call. Bear-style pressure cooker. Dan calls. Fort Bragg reunion.
11
The Quiet
Jay's dissociation at home. The boys still fighting in Nangarhar. "Jay… come back to me."
12
The Mountain
Jay absent entirely. Reggie's baptism by fire with 3335. Ray: "Welcome to the show, kid."
13
The Return
German transit. Bagram HLZ. JJ: "Why so serious?" He is home. He is whole.

The Ensemble

THREE ODAS.
ONE MEDIC.
THE TRUTH.

Jason Green — 36D1 Senior Medic — is the connective tissue across all three teams. Each ODA is a distinct culture. Each has its own humor, its own damage, its own way of surviving.

ODA 3336
ODA 3336
"KNUCKS & CHUCKS"
The Heart
Chaotic, funny, deeply bonded. Dan's team. Jay's home. The gravitational center of the series.
ODA 3335
ODA 3335
"NECESSARY EVIL"
The Standard
Disciplined, lethal, absurdly funny. Chuck's team. The benchmark Jason measures himself against.
ODA 3334
ODA 3334
"DEATH MACHINE MC"
The Storm
Senior, violent, biker-gang energy. Mark's team. The reckoning that comes for everyone eventually.
J.H. Calder — Jason A. Green

Writer / Director / Showrunner

J.H.
CALDER

pen name of Jason A. Green

I served nine combat deployments as a Special Forces medic. I've carried men off the battlefield, held their hands while they died, laughed with them around burn barrels. For years, every portrayal of Special Forces on screen felt wrong. Sanitized. Hero-worshipped. Politicized. I never saw my team. I never saw the truth.

My wife Lindsey is a combat veteran and former medic. She survived an IED blast that killed everyone else in her vehicle. Beat cancer. She is the emotional spine of this series. I'm not interested in propaganda or politics. I'm interested in the men I served with — their stories, their laughter, their pain, their ghosts.

ODA 3336 · C/3/3 SFG(A) Bronze Star w/Valor Purple Heart 9 Combat Deployments 2001–2014 Autobiographical
  • BroadcastTHE BUSHMEN selected — WRPN.tv Broadcast Competition
  • PilotEpisode 1 "Jalrez" — 58 pages — Complete & Available
  • DraftsEpisodes 2, 5, 9 — Complete drafts. Remaining fully outlined.
  • BibleMaster Series Bible v4 — Available on request

Market Position — February 2026

SUBMISSION
STATUS

Industry Submissions
Insignia Entertainment
Pitched Feb 17 → Response Feb 21: YES → Submitted Feb 22
Submitted
Affirmative Entertainment
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Offered
Zero Gravity Management
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Submitted
Mom's Basement Management
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Submitted
Max F Media
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WRPN.tv
Broadcast Competition
Selected
Scripts & Development
Ep. 01 Jalrez Complete · 58pp
Ep. 02 3334 / 3335 Full Draft
Ep. 05 The Dirty Side Full Draft
Ep. 09 The Coin Has a Say Full Draft
Ep. 03–13 Remaining Episodes Fully Outlined
Bible Master Series Bible v4 Available
Deck Pitch Deck Available

REQUEST
MATERIALS

Pilot script, series bible, pitch deck, and additional materials available to industry professionals. All inquiries responded to personally.

jason@calderwarstories.com

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