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Author:

Romesha, Clinton, author.

Title:

Red Platoon : a true story of American valor / Clinton Romesha.

Publisher:

Dutton,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, map (on endpapers), photographs ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Romesha, Clinton.
Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001---Campaigns--Nuristan (Region).--Nuristan (Region).
Counterinsurgency--Nuristan (Region).--Nuristan (Region).
Afghan War, 2001---Personal narratives, American.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the U.S. military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend. On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 14-hour battle{u2014}and eventual victory{u2014}cost 8 men their lives. Red Platoon is the riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defense of the outpost and the counter-attack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.

ISBN:

0525955054 : HRD
9780525955054 : HRD

LCCN:

bl2016012650

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