Description
Book Synopsis In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. A Special Forces dropout, Summerfield was given a second chance at leadership as the head of an infantry team in one of the most IED-ridden areas in Afghanistan. With zero training and little intel, his squad navigated IED belts, leadership conflict and enemy ambushes. This book provides a thought-provoking and often humorous account of life on the front in a frontless war, all from the perspective of a low-ranking enlisted soldier.
Table of ContentsPreface
Terms
Battalion Structure
1. Black Outs and Black Ops
2. With No Training and Little Intel
3. Snap-Backs and Taliban?
4. Farming for Taliban
5. IEDs for Sale or Trade
6. Kotizi
7. Unexpected Company
8. Jelly Legs
9. Seek and Defecate
10. Gundi Ghar
11. Gundi Ghar, Day Two
12. Chapman
13. The Return to Gundi Ghar
14. Back to the Grind
15. Deegan Cole
16. The Complexities of My Emotions
17. To Check or Not to Check
18. Ice Cream and Lattes
19. But Nobody Died, Right?
20. Night on the Big Town
21. Superheroes with Drinking Problems
22. Now Let's Never Do That Again
23. Bargaining for Your Future
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