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    Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War
    Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War
    Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War
    Audiobook9 hours

    Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War

    Written by Frank Antenori and Hans Halberstadt

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    On April 6th. 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant First Class Frank Antenori's Special Forces A-Team (call sign Roughneck Nine One), fought a vastly superior force at a remote crossroads near the village of Debecka, Iraq. The enemy unit had battle tanks and 150 well-trained, well-equipped and well-commanded soldiers. The Green Berets stopped the enemy advance then fought them until only a handful of Iraqi survivors finally fled the battlefield.

    In the process, the Nine One encountered hordes of news media and at the peak of the fight, a US Navy F-14 dropped a 500-pound bomb into the middle of a group of supporting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, killing and wounding dozens.

    Roughneck Nine One is the never-before-told, unsanitized story of the fight for the crossroads at Debecka, Iraq, and a unique inside look at a Special Forces A-team as it recruits and organizes, trains for combat, and eventually fights a battle against a huge opposing force in Iraq.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 3, 2006
    ISBN9781400172603
    Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War

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    • 4/5
      Authors do a good job describing the psychological stresses soldiers suffer waiting for permission to do their job. Also, how difficult it is to accept orders from superiors who don't support the troops or function well in combat situations. Planning, training, implementing, completing and recovering from a special operation are well defined and described.
    • 5/5
      A first person account of green berets in action in Iraq in the early days of the war.
    • 3/5
      Read this two years ago. One may argue with the reasons and confusion surrounding these wars, but the men who fight them are a special bunch. Physical bravery and a deep concern for others is a hallmark of them all. This is an amazing story, and a tragic one as well.
    • 1/5
      A look at a battle in which Special Forces soldiers were outmanned 5-to-1 and still prevailed. Includes a nice opening section detailing the life and culture of the SF unit in question.