One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War by West Bing

Author:West, Bing
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-1-58836-933-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Also on Christmas Day, Rausch, who threw the red smoke to help a wounded comrade on Thanksgiving Day, happened to be at battalion headquarters when General Amos flew in.

“You’ve been in a hell of a fight,” the Commandant said. “The least I can do is come out here.”

The next day, Rausch returned to 3rd Platoon, proudly showing off a medallion the Commandant had given him. The rumor was if you slapped down that coin inside a bar in the States, someone was sure to buy you a drink. Rausch, twenty, would have to wait a year before testing the rumor, if he got home.

In a Christmas letter to the families of 3/5, Lieutenant Colonel Morris wrote, “The bottom line is that we are hurting the enemy and concurrently doing everything we can to help the Afghan people choose to support their national government over the Taliban.”

The Marines were dying in the fields of Sangin. But there was no indication the people of Sangin would ever support their government in opposition to the Taliban.

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