I enjoyed this book. I have been to Iraq (2003-04) and to Afghanistan (2007-08). As people have asked me about my experience, and I try to explain something that foreign to Americans that have never seen anything other than their own towns, I struggle to put my experiences into terms that they ...
Ollie North; the former Marine who Marines love because he tells their story directly without embellishment; a technique more authors could do well to emulate. This was a book about what went on in the part of the war he covered while with Fox News. Told from first person, the usual tragedies, ...
American Citizens AMEMB. American Embassy Amn Al-Khass. Iraq's Special Security Services; also SSS AOB. Advanced Operations Base AWS. Amphibious Warfare School Ba'ath Party. Iraqi political party of Saddam Hussein BUD/S. Basic Underwater Demolition School Canked. Military slang for canceled CONUS...
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM SIT REP #10 TAA Gibraltar, Vic Iraqi-Kuwaiti Border Friday, 21 March 2003 0300 Hours Local The silence immediately around us is almost eerie. But now that the last of more than fifty helicopters has landed and shut down, the sound of 155mm artillery an...