Chosen Soldier
Chosen Soldier

Author: Dick Couch

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2008-03-25

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0307339394

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An unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers. In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces–the legendary Green Berets. Following the experiences of one class of soldiers as they endure this physically and mentally exhausting ordeal, Couch spells out in fascinating detail the demanding selection process and grueling field exercises, the high-level technical training and intensive language courses, and the simulated battle problems that test everything from how well SF candidates gather operational intelligence to their skills at negotiating with volatile, often hostile, local leaders. Chosen Soldier paints a vivid portrait of an elite group, and a process that forges America’s smartest, most versatile, and most valuable fighting force.

The Chosen One
The Chosen One

Author: Walt Gragg

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1984806343

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A fundamentalist Islamic army is on the march in the Middle East, and the fight to stop the spread of madness will take everything the American military can muster, in this novel from the author of The Red Line. Two months ago, a new leader arose in the Islamic world, the Mahdi—or the Chosen One. He has rallied fundamentalist Muslim forces across the Middle East who have driven deep into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Standing against them is an allied force made up primarily of the American military. It's a desperate fight. From armored battles in the desert to American carriers desperately dodging waves of cruise missiles, the Mahdi proves to have many tricks up his sleeve. Marine Lieutenant Sam Erickson is in the thick of the fighting. He and his company have fought their way from a landing on the Mediterranean shore to the outskirts of Cairo. Now he finds himself at a critical juncture, but can he make the sacrifices necessary for the greater good?

Our Year of War
Our Year of War

Author: Daniel P. Bolger

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0306903245

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Two brothers -- Chuck and Tom Hagel -- who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step -- one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war -- a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.

Chosen
Chosen

Author: Timothy A. Payne

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781539167907

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Staff Sergeant Timothy Payne is no stranger to adversity. After the attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon he was compelled to fight for his country. His goal was to fight alongside Special Operation Forces. His goals were shatter by the infamous "Murphy's Law," whatever can go wrong will go wrong. On his last attempt for covert operations Payne received orders to the Chosin Battalion "Against All Odds" out of the 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division. Rumors spread throughout the battalion concerning Southern Afghanistan, the birth place of the Taliban. Staff Sergeant Payne new his men were in for a tough fight. Lieutenant Colonel Mintz ordered all the Squad Leaders into the battalion conference room where he exclaimed the expected combat losses at 40%. Staff Sergeant Payne was at crossroads in his career he just received orders for deployment and orders for a covert position within the civil affair battalion. All he had to do was make it a year through a place that the 82nd Airborne Division came to call Afghanistan's southern region as "The Devil's playground."The story of war, combat injuries, and redirection. Enduring 120 surgeries, 100 blood transfusions, and flatlining 7 times with 7 outer body experiences. The process of healing the mind, the body, and the spirit.