Red Platoon

a true story of American valor

Red Platoon

a true story of American valor
Clinton Romesha Medal of Honor recipient
Book - 2016

An account of the horrendous October 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, told in a frank, engaging vernacular by the staff sergeant and Medal of Honor winner. Romesha ably captures the daily dangers faced by these courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan.--

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主要作者: Romesha, Clinton (Author)
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: New York, New York : Dutton, [2016]
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Red Platoon
a true story of American valor
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Romesha, Clinton
出版 2016
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505 0 |a Introduction: It doesn't get better -- Part I: The road to Nuristan -- Loss -- Stacked -- Keating -- Inside the fishbowl -- Everybody dies -- Part II: Going cyclic -- "Let's go kill some people" -- Heavy contact -- Combat Kirk -- Luck -- Tunnel vision -- Part III: Overrun -- The only gun left in the fight -- "Charlie in the wire" -- The Alamo position -- Light 'em up -- Part IV: Taking the bitch back -- Launch out -- Not gonna make it -- Ox and Finch -- Alive! -- The bone -- Part V: Saving Stephan Mace -- "Go get it done" -- Mustering the dead -- Conflagration -- Farewell to Keating -- Trailing fires -- Epilogue -- In memoriam. 
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610 2 0 |a Taliban. 
650 0 |a Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009. 
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650 0 |a Soldiers  |z United States  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Heroes  |z United States  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Courage  |z Afghanistan. 
650 0 |a Medal of Honor  |v Biography. 
651 0 |a Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan) 
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