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"Ten U.S. Marines are assigned to live, train, and go into battle with more than five hundred raw and undisciplined Iraqi soldiers. A member of this Adviser Support Team, Capt. Eric Navarro, recounts their tour in vivid and brutally honest detail." "Their deployment comes at a particularly important time in the war. The Battle of Fallujah is raging, and President Bush has proclaimed training the Iraqi forces is the key to winning the war. Once they stand up, we can stand down, or so the theory goes. Navarro's team, nicknamed The Drifters, faces countless roadblocks - no interpreters…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2008Potomac Books Inc. · 288 pages · 9781597971690
United States. Marine CorpsUnited StatesAmerican Personal narrativesIraq War, 2003-2011MarinesBiography






