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- Author: William Yeske
- Publisher: Casemate
- ISBN-10: 1636243657
- ISBN-13: 9781636243658
- Format: 16 x 23.4 x 2.5 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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"DAMN THE VALLEY" was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009-2010. The valley has claimed bodies from the troops of Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and more recently, the Russian Army. Operating in the valley was like nothing the men could have envisaged, they called it the "meat grinder."
It was a deployment that the media didn't talk about, and the government doesn't acknowledge. Three of the company were KIA, more than a dozen suffered life-changing injuries, and half the company had Purple Hearts--not many modern-day deployments have a 52% casualty rate. At one point, the entire prosthetics ward at Walter Reed was full of the men who patrolled that deadly area of the world. Since their return, many of the survivors have struggled to move on with their lives, and the unit has been declared at "extraordinary risk" by the Department of Veteran Affairs.
William Yeske has no idea how he got out of the Arghandab unscathed. In this book he shares his perspective as a lower enlisted in this bloody deployment.
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- Author: William Yeske
- Publisher: Casemate
- ISBN-10: 1636243657
- ISBN-13: 9781636243658
- Format: 16 x 23.4 x 2.5 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
"DAMN THE VALLEY" was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009-2010. The valley has claimed bodies from the troops of Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and more recently, the Russian Army. Operating in the valley was like nothing the men could have envisaged, they called it the "meat grinder."
It was a deployment that the media didn't talk about, and the government doesn't acknowledge. Three of the company were KIA, more than a dozen suffered life-changing injuries, and half the company had Purple Hearts--not many modern-day deployments have a 52% casualty rate. At one point, the entire prosthetics ward at Walter Reed was full of the men who patrolled that deadly area of the world. Since their return, many of the survivors have struggled to move on with their lives, and the unit has been declared at "extraordinary risk" by the Department of Veteran Affairs.
William Yeske has no idea how he got out of the Arghandab unscathed. In this book he shares his perspective as a lower enlisted in this bloody deployment.
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