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Romesha, Clinton.
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Romesha, Clinton.
Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
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Romesha, Clinton.
Romesha, Clinton.
Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
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Red Platoon : a true story of American valor / Clinton Romesha.
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Romesha, Clinton.
Center Point Large Print, [2016]
Call #:
LP
958
.1047
R763r
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 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
ISBN:
9781628999938 (hc.)
Edition:
Center Point large print edition.
Description:
575 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2016.
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:
"A firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha. Stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself - Keating - had become a kind of backhanded joke. In 2009, Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost 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 attack by the Taliban would take the lives of eight Americans and countless Afghans."--Provided by publisher.
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