Dog Company : a true story of American soldiers abandoned by their high command

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Dog Company : a true story of American soldiers abandoned by their high command

Title remainder

a true story of American soldiers abandoned by their high command

Statement of responsibility

Lynn Vincent and Captain Roger Hill

Creator

• trueVincent, Lynn

Contributor

• Grant, Christopher Ryan
• Hill, Roger T.

Author

• trueVincent, Lynn
• Hill, Roger T.

Narrator

• Grant, Christopher Ryan

Subject

• Hill, Roger T
• Hill, Roger T. -- Trials, litigation, etc
• trueMilitary courts -- Afghanistan
• Nonfiction
• trueSoldiers -- United States -- Biography
• Spies -- Afghanistan
• Taliban
• United States, Army -- Officers -- Biography
• Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, American
• United States, Army | Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th | Company D
• Audiobooks
• Courage -- Afghanistan

Genre

• truePersonal narratives, American
• trueBiography
• Audiobooks
• trueTrials, litigation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting spies who kill Americans free. This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men. Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of the military law. In 2007, Hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st Airborne. His new unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had just returned stateside from the hell of Ramadi. They were brilliant in combat but unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days. With tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers in the battalion. Hill and Scott then led Dog Company into combat in Afghanistan, where for six months, the number of wounded in action cut into their unit by a third. Meanwhile, Hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every turn. After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base in the violent province of Wardak. Abandoned by his high command, Hill suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he'd grown to love

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

958.104/742092

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

DS371.413

Literary text for sound recordings

• autobiography
• history

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Christopher Ryan Grant

Series statement

Overdrive

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable