In the fall of 2006, Rory McGovern was a company fire support officer assigned to a combined arms team operating in the area around Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The day after Christmas, he was on a security patrol in support of a local sheikh’s Hajj send-off party when a shot rang out. McGovern had been hit. He shares the story of that encounter with the sniper and subsequent recovery in this episode.
In 2003, Maj. (ret) John Spencer was a platoon leader in the 173rd Airborne. In this episode, he talks about the very first mission...
In 2005, Major General Pat Roberson was the ground force commander for a combined special forces task force in Iraq given the task of...
We are now twenty-one years past the events of 9/11. America's war in Afghanistan has come to an end yet the repercussions of that...