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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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Counterinsurgency, Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009, Campaigns, American Personal narratives, Taliban, Afghan War, 2001-, Afghan war, 2001-, Insurgency, United states, army, biography, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2016-05-22, New York Times bestseller, Soldiers, Biography, Heroes, Courage, Medal of Honor, Regimental histories, Kamdesh (Afghanistan), Battle of, 2009, Personal narratives, American Participation, Military participation, AmericanPeople
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
2016, Penguin Random House
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Table of 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.
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