Roughneck Nine-One
The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-team at War
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9316635M
- ISBN-139780312353322
- ISBN-100312353324
- OCLC Control Number63108471
- OCLC Control Numberroughnecknineone00ante
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006040811
- Goodreads147100
- LibraryThing1301103
Classifications
- LCCDS79.76 .A58 2006
Description
"On April 6, 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant 1st Class Frank Antenori's Special forces A-team (call sign Roughneck Nine-One), led a violent battle against a vastly superior force at the remote crossroads near the village of Debecka, Iraq. In an already legendary conflict that will influence US Army doctrine for years to come, the Green Berets stopped an enemy unit that included battle tanks and more than 150 well-trained, well-equipped, and well-commanded soldiers. Any normal American light infantry unit finding itself outnumbered over five to one and outgunned on the ground by such a heavily armored force would have turned and run for cover. But Green Berets don't like to run and "Nine-One Don't Run" was Antenori's team's motto from the very beginning. In a spectacular fight, they battled Iraqi tanks and personnel until only a handful of Iraqi survivors finally fled the battlefield." "In the process, Nine-One encountered hordes of news media, and at the peak of the fight, a US Navy F-14 dropped a 500-pound bomb in the middle of a group of supporting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, killing and wounding dozens. This is the never-before-told, unsanitized, unedited 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."--Jacket.
First Sentence
Looking back on it, I got my job as team sergeant for Operational Detachment Alpha-391 (ODA-391 ) as the result of an enemy ambush.
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