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They Called Us Lucky The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit by Jim DeFelice | 33.76 MB
English | 336 Pages
Title: They Called Us "Lucky"
Author: Ruben Gallego
Year: 2021
Description:
Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War.
At first, they were "Lucky Lima." Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company-3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations-returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.
Then, in May 2005, Lima's fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had...
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Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War.
At first, they were "Lucky Lima." Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company-3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations-returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.
Then, in May 2005, Lima's fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had...
DOWNLOAD:
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