![Red Platoon](https://www.syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=9780525955054/LC.jpg&oclc=933729394&upc=&client=richlandlib)
Red Platoon
A True Story of American Valor
New York, New York : Dutton, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.-- adapted from Kirkus reviews.
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.
Subjects:
Romesha, Clinton.
Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
Romesha, Clinton.
Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
ISBN:
9780525955054
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Military Rom | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Military Rom | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes biographical references.