Since I'm up at night with a half sleeping, teething child, I figured I'd read a few books.
I just finished one written by Captain Nathan Self, Platoon leader Company A 1st Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment.
It's his autobiography called Two Wars.
He talks about the PTSD he's suffered from after leaving the service mainly because of the battle he experienced in March of 2002 on a mountain called Takur Ghar.
Now that some of this stuff is starting to be declassified more frequently, we are getting a better sense of what an absolute meat grinder the war in Afghanistan really was and what a sh!t show some of the battlefield tactics were especially early in the war. Turns out, fighting in the mountains at 11,000 feet elevation in 3 feet of snow is a little more complicated than the brass at the Pentagon thought.
I know @GuaranteedFresh! told us way back that his base went on lock down during 9/11 and shortly after he was in country- but were you still in country when this went down? Were you privy to any of this? Because man, this was a literal bare knuckles brawl that Captain Self describes.
Back home the media coverage was "Ya, we're bombing the sh!t outta the Mooj and cleaning out the mountain roaches like Orkin." But this dude makes it sound like the Taliban were dug in so tight that our boys needed a crowbar to get them out.
I just finished one written by Captain Nathan Self, Platoon leader Company A 1st Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment.
It's his autobiography called Two Wars.
He talks about the PTSD he's suffered from after leaving the service mainly because of the battle he experienced in March of 2002 on a mountain called Takur Ghar.
Now that some of this stuff is starting to be declassified more frequently, we are getting a better sense of what an absolute meat grinder the war in Afghanistan really was and what a sh!t show some of the battlefield tactics were especially early in the war. Turns out, fighting in the mountains at 11,000 feet elevation in 3 feet of snow is a little more complicated than the brass at the Pentagon thought.
I know @GuaranteedFresh! told us way back that his base went on lock down during 9/11 and shortly after he was in country- but were you still in country when this went down? Were you privy to any of this? Because man, this was a literal bare knuckles brawl that Captain Self describes.
Back home the media coverage was "Ya, we're bombing the sh!t outta the Mooj and cleaning out the mountain roaches like Orkin." But this dude makes it sound like the Taliban were dug in so tight that our boys needed a crowbar to get them out.
