After spending extended periods on the frontline for the two documentaries, the 2010 book War and a series of articles, this is a difficulty Junger understands only too well. He says he has finished with war reporting following Hetherington’s death - he likens the experience to the wake-up call a smoker might have after losing a friend to lung cancer - but has stayed connected to the military, both with the production of Korengal and through the launch of the medical training programme RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues).