Download or read book Bravo Company written by Ben Kesling and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, powerful, and sweeping portrait of a company of men who went to war in Afghanistan, their troubled deployment, and their lives since returning home “An honest account of bravery, sacrifice, and what it means to seek redemption. As a veteran of combat himself, Ben Kesling is able to intimately and honestly document war and its aftermath in ways others haven’t.” —Jake Tapper, CNN anchor In Bravo Company, journalist and veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar’s notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers had been killed in action, a dozen more had lost limbs, and nearly half of the company had Purple Hearts. In the decade since, two of the soldiers have died by suicide, more than a dozen have tried, and others admit they’ve considered it. Declared an “extraordinary risk” by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the members of Bravo Company were chosen as test subjects for a new approach to the veteran crisis, focusing less on individuals and more on the group. Bravo Company has an insider’s eye and ear, and draws on extensive interviews and original reporting. It follows the men from their initial enlistment and training, through their deployment and a major shift in their mission, and then on to what has happened in the decade since as they returned to combat in other units or moved on with their lives as civilians, or struggled to do so. This is a powerful, insightful, and memorable account of a war that didn’t end for these soldiers just because they came home.
Download or read book Bravo Company A novel of the Vietnam War written by John S. Hardin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Martin returns to Vietnam after his friend Pete is killed there. He misses leading men in combat and is determined to get them through the war. Anna Grayson is Pete's widow. She's devoted to him, and her world is turned upside down when Pete is killed in action. Emotionally vulnerable, she turns to Roger for strength as she grieves. When Roger and Anna reunite during his R-n-R in Hawaii, things between them develop into something neither expected. Anna has now seen two men in her life go off to war, and she hopes she never goes through losing a second one. Bravo Company is a novel about men at war and the people at home who await their return.
Download or read book AR 15 Handbook written by Erik Lawrence and published by Erik Lawrence Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular handy to use guide to the particulars of the AR-15 type rifle system. This handbook covers common info, malfunctions, care and maintenance, and training tips for those who use this rifle for fun or protections. Written by two Special Forces instructors with decades of experience with this weapon system. A must have for every range bag!
Download or read book Company of Heroes written by Eric Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. Its focus is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr., whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry (Currahees), 101st Airborne Division, were involved in intense, bloody engagements such as the battle for Hill 474 and the Mother's Day Ambush. Beginning with their deployment at the height of the blistering Tet Offensive, and using military records and interviews with surviving soldiers, Eric Poole recreates the terror of combat amidst the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. Company of Heroes, now published in paperback tells the remarkable story of how Sabo earned his medal, as Bravo Company forged bonds of brotherhood in their daily battle for survival.
Download or read book Non ETS Attrition written by James M. McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Corps Tank Battles in the Middle East written by Oscar E. Gilbert and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen since the dashes of World War II. The emphasis would be not on brutal battles of attrition, but on paralyzing the enemy by rapid maneuver and overwhelming but judicious use of firepower. Yet in two wars with Iraq, the tankers, as well as the crews of the new Light Armored Vehicles, quickly found themselves in a familiar roleÑbattering through some of the strongest defenses in the world by frontal assault, fighting their way through towns and cities. In AmericaÕs longest continual conflict, armored Marines became entangled in further guerilla war, this time amid the broiling deserts, ancient cities, and rich farmlands of Iraq, and in the high, bleak wastes of Afghanistan. It was a familiar kind of war against a fanatical foe who brutalized civilians, planted sophisticated roadside bombs, and seized control of entire cities. It has been a maddening war of clearing roads, escorting convoys, endless sweep operations to locate and destroy insurgent strongholds, protecting voting sites for free elections, and recapturing and rebuilding urban centers. ItÕs been a war in which the tanks repeatedly provided the outnumbered infantry with precise and decisive firepower. The tankers even added a new trick to their repertoireÑlong-range surveillance. Our fights against Iraq in 1991 and in the post-9/11 years have seen further wars that demanded that unique combination of courage, tenacity, professionalism, and versatility that makes a Marine no better friend, and no worse enemy. This book fully describes how our Marine Corps tankers have risen to the occasion.
Download or read book Army Logistician written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official magazine of United States Army logistics.
Download or read book Twelve Days in May written by Jerald W. Berry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To preserve the gallantry of these men, author Jerald W. Berry spent three years of extensive investigation and personal interviews. He now presents this comprehensive research through this book. Hundreds of interviews from those who actually were insideCambodia comprise the heart of this book. It relives the firsthand accounts of those soldiers who witnessed history through their own eyes. To add a more vivid picture of the era that, that are forty-year-old photographs that belong to the infantrymen who lived the "twelve days in May" inside Cambodia.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Continental Marine written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warrior Forge written by United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Delayed Detonation written by Jeff Dossett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mountains of East Tennessee, a young and naive college student of the 1960s plunges into the horrors of the Vietnam War. Like many others of that era, he grew up with a romanticized and naive vision of the glories of war. As an officer and Artillery Forward Observer with the 25th Infantry Division, 1967 through 1968, he would live through a year of combat, including the 1968 Tet Offensive, without a scratch. He, like other soldiers, would supress the fear and anguish associated with seeing his comrades killed and mutilated. Upon returning to the "world" and to a college campus, he would then experience the contempt and ridicule that his peers, colleagues and professors had for the Vietnam Veteran. This story explores the emotional wounds he and other Vietnam Veterans suffered in silence. Ten years later, the "bomb" inside him explodes to scar him for life, threatening to destroy his home, career and life.
Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better Times Than These written by Winston Groom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Holden and other soldiers from varying backgrounds find their lives radically changed in Vietnam by a war that they find difficult to understand or support.
Download or read book Black Hearts written by Jim Frederick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book With My Shield written by James Lechner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid in Somalia in 1993. In 1993 Lieutenant James Lechner, a member of the 3rd Ranger Battalion, was selected for a top secret special operations task force being sent to Mogadishu, Somalia, to capture the insurgent leader Mohamed Farah Aideed. In early October, after weeks on the ground and conducting a number of raids in the city, the Task Force is called upon to conduct a daring daylight mission into the heart of Aideed's territory. During the raid, following the initial dangerous fast rope insertion and subsequent capture of a group of Aideed's lieutenants, one of the Task Force Black Hawk helicopters is shot down and Lechner and his comrades are soon caught up in the fiercest combat involving US forces since the Vietnam War. In the middle of the hostile city, deep in the enemy's stronghold, the small group of Rangers and special operators now find themselves fighting not only to rescue the downed helicopter's crewmen, but also to save their own lives. This first-hand account tells the story of how these elite warriors were able to stand together and prevail against incredible odds. It gives the reader the perspective of an Army Ranger fighting on the ground, combined with professional military analysis, in a groundbreaking book that tells the complete story with never-before-revealed details.
Download or read book Management Accounting Case Book written by Raef A. Lawson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlighten your students and improve your understanding of management accounting with this carefully curated collection of case studies Management Accounting Case Book: Cases from the IMA Educational Case Journal offers a detailed account of real-world business cases accessible to a variety of business-savvy audiences. It provides comprehensive coverage of several areas relevant to students and professionals in business and finance, including: · Strategic cost management (including product and service costing, cost allocation, and strategy implementation) · Planning and decision making (including cost estimation, CVP analysis, budgeting, decision making, capital investments, target costing, and TOC) · Operations, process management, and innovation (including flexible budgeting, standard costs, variance analysis, non-financial performance indicators, quality control, lean, and innovation governance) Used by dozens of different universities, the Management Accounting Case Book contains cases reviewed and rigorously vetted by the Institute of Management Accountants. The book is perfect for anyone hoping to increase their understanding of management theory or facilitate lively discussion about the topics contained within.
