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Leader LDR nam i 00
Control # 1 hbl99070284
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20200817115141.0
Fixed Data 8 160318s2016 nyu 000 0deng d
LC Card 10    $a 2016012650
ISBN 20    $a9780525955054
Obsolete 39    $a299358$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aNjBwBT$beng$cNjBwBT$erda$dGCG
LC Call 50 14 $aDS371.4123.K36$bR66 2016
Dewey Class 82 04 $a958.104/742$223
Dewey Class 82 14 $a958.104$215
ME:Pers Name 100 $aRomesha, Clinton,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aRed Platoon :$ba true story of American valor /$cClinton Romesha.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bDutton,$c2016.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axiii, 378 pages :$bills, maps ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: It doesn't get better -- Part I: The road to Nuristan. Loss -- Stacked -- Keating -- Inside the fishbowl -- Everybody dies -- Part II: Going cyclic. "Let's go kill some people" -- Heavy contact -- Combat Kirk -- Luck -- Tunnel vision -- Part III: Overrun. The only gun left in the fight -- "Charlie in the wire" -- The Alamo position -- Light 'em up -- Part IV: Taking the bitch back. Launch out -- Not gonna make it -- Ox and Finch -- Alive! -- The bone -- Part V: Saving Stephan Mace. "Go get it done" -- Mustering the dead -- Conflagration -- Farewell to Keating -- Trailing fires -- Epilogue -- In memoriam.
Abstract 520    $aA first-hand account of the thirteen-hour firefight at Command Outpost Keating describes the events of the October 3, 2009 attack and how the sacrifices of heroic men raised questions about whether the strategically vulnerable outpost should ever have been built.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aRomesha, Clinton.
Subj:Corp 610 20 $aTaliban.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aKamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xCampaigns$zAfghanistan$zNuristan (Region).
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCounterinsurgency$zAfghanistan$zNuristan (Region)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$vPersonal narratives, American.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aCombat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)