epub |eng | | Author:Rob Kugler

* * * As a reservist, I’d always had another job, except while being deployed. I had worked nearly every day since I was fourteen years old, but being medically ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-30 | Author:Neil Reynolds

OSSI/Safenet co-owner Mauritz le Roux had the binding from the 10 000 stacks of dollar bills framed A marine had counted out their three million from one of the pallets ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mark G. Kortepeter

The extremely high attack rate didn’t jibe with malaria, especially for marines taking malaria pills. It had the classic hallmarks of a point-source outbreak from a common exposure—like when a ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Kyle Carpenter

Chapter 10 It Starts at Home (Again) FEBRUARY 2011 Early in the spring of 2011, my family was offered a surprising choice: I could stay at the VA hospital in ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Hal Klepak

The 30th November was my 21st birthday, and on that day for the first time I heard shots fired in anger, and heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Jason Redman

TOWARD THE END OF the month, as I grew nearer to the end of my time in Ranger Jail, I circled back to that day in the valley. It was ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Elliot Ackerman

* * * “Where are you, Dara?” Matt cradles his cell phone to his ear. The wind has picked up, and his voice mixes with the roadside traffic and is ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Mat Best

Chapter 10 Iraqi Rave Party Not every day in Ranger Battalion is a shooting gallery at the carnival type of day. You forget that sometimes. You also forget that you ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Mat Best & Ross Patterson & Nils Parker

Chapter 10 Iraqi Rave Party Not every day in Ranger Battalion is a shooting gallery at the carnival type of day. You forget that sometimes. You also forget that you ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ryan Leigh Dostie

One day a different Iraqi translator visits my guard tower. He’s not a regular at our camp, but he’s on loan from the First Armored Division, clearly higher ranking in ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Nada Bakos

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, was found guilty of crimes against humanity for the 1982 killing of 148 Shias in the small city of Dujail, approximately forty miles north ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:William H. Mcraven

I pushed the phone closer to my ear. Our office in the Old Executive Office Building was a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF), which meant acoustics were terrible. “The triple ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Jack Murphy

PART II CHAPTER 10 Anything You Do Can Get You Killed, Including Doing Nothing I DIDN’T SEE ANY future for me in the army. We stood tall on the parade ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brooke King

Tin Box Battalion The flag lowered, sinking down to white-gloved hands that were already saturated with sweat from standing in the late afternoon sun. The rope whipped against the pole, ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:David Axe & Matt Bors [Axe, David & Bors, Matt]

Ted Rall is a cartoonist, columnist, and author of To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue, and Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? PROLOGUE IRAQ ...