Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (repost)
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood By Donovan Campbell
Publisher: Ran dom Ho use 2010 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0812979567 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Ran dom Ho use 2010 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0812979567 | PDF | 2 MB
Campbell decided as a junior at Princeton that attending Marine Corps Officer Candidate School would look good on his résumé. Three years later, in the spring of 2004, he was in Iraq commanding a platoon known by its radio call sign, Joker One. Campbell tells its story, and his, in an outstanding narrative of the Iraq War. Joker One counted around 40 dudes: country boys and smalltown jocks; a few Hispanics and a single black. Some were college men with futures; some had pasts they preferred to forget. The battalion was assigned to one of Iraq's worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi, where faceless enemies found shelter among 350,000 Iraqi civilians.