03277cam a2200373 4500 261677656 TxAuBib 20160318120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698404151 0698404157 B0141ZP1XK Amazon de010720-8cbf-41ca-9bed-d1e188f00dca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2462139 OverDrive (Product ID) 2462139 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Romesha, Clinton. Red Platoon [Libby] : A True Story of American Valor. Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 14MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 14MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of <i>Black Hawk Down</i> by Mark Bowden and <i>Lone Survivor</i> by Marcus Luttrell</b><br /> <br /> "'It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself — Keating — had become a kind of backhanded joke."<br /> <br /> In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the U.S. military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend.<br /> <br /> On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 14-hour battle— and eventual victory— cost 8 men their lives.<br /> <br /> <i>Red Platoon</i> is the riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defense of the outpost and the counter-attack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.<br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-05-04 20:00:02. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=de010720-8cbf-41ca-9bed-d1e188f00dca http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=de010720-8cbf-41ca-9bed-d1e188f00dca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=de010720-8cbf-41ca-9bed-d1e188f00dca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=de010720-8cbf-41ca-9bed-d1e188f00dca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXCAN