02493cam a2200445 i 4500 1164502289 TxAuBib 20160621120000.0 150909s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525955054 hardcover 0525955054 hardcover (OCoLC)933729394 AZZPT eng rda AZZPT OCLCQ YDXCP BTCTA BDX GMP OCLCO UPZ JSE OU9 TxAuBib rda Romesha, Clinton, author. Red Platoon : a true story of American valor / Clinton Romesha, Medal of honor recipient. New York, New York : Dutton, [2016] ©2016. xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier cri rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes biographical references. 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. 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.-- adapted from Kirkus reviews. 20160621. Romesha, Clinton. Taliban. Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009. Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghanistan Nuristan (Region.) Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American. Counterinsurgency Afghanistan Nuristan (Region.) Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan.) TXKIP