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Afghan War, 2001- Aerial operations, American Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghan War, 2001- Commando operations United States BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military Chapman, John Allan 1965-2002 Special forces (Military science) United States Biography Takur Ghar, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2002 United States United States Air Force Commando troops History United States. Air Force Combat controllers BiographyTyson, Ann
Summary: "Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first met Special Forces Major James Gant and heard about his battle renown when he was awarded the Silver Star several years ago. Soon after, in October, 2009, Gant rocked the US military establishment with hispaper "One Tribe at a Time," an incendiary criticism of what he considered a gaping hole in U.S. strategy: The failure to engage Afghanistan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GANT, JAMES TYSO'Neill, Robert
Summary: Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, ROBERT ONECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ONEILL ONEGamal, Adam
Summary: "The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit--an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, "the Unit," as the Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019