Fighting 69th From Ground Zero to Baghdad

Name: Fighting 69th From Ground Zero to Baghdad
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ISBN: 9780143114925

ISBN-10: 0143114921

ISBN-13: 9780143114925

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Authors: Sean Michael Flynn

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One of the most celebrated units in the military for more than a century, by 1990, New York City’s Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard was scarcely fit for duty. Its equipment was derelict, its discipline nonexistent, many of its leaders inept, and its ranks filled with kids barely out of high school who had little intention of serving their country for any longer than it took to get their paycheck, college credit, or job training. Then came the attacks of September 11 and the invasion of Iraq. In The Fighting 69th, Sean Michael Flynn, himself a member of the unit, chronicles the extraordinary transformation of this band of amateur soldiers into a battle-hardened…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.43" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Sean Michael Flynnserved as a company commander during the Fighting 69ths service from Ground Zero to Iraq, and prior was in the U.S. Air Force. He has a BA in journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park.



Author's Note


An Infantry Primer


Prologue


October 1991



Homeland Defense: March 2001-February 2004



Weekend Warriors


Saint Patrick's Day 2001


Failure to Launch


Missionaries, Mercenaries, and Misfits



Minutemen


A New Paradigm


Beirut-on-Hudson



The Strategic Reserve


Not Ready for Prime Time


The Roughnecks



Preemption


Parking Lot Heroes


Saint Patrick's Day 2002


The Bridge-and-Tunnel Group



The End of the Whip


The Storm Before the Hurricane


Saint Patrick's Day 2003


When Pigs Fly



Operation Iraqi Freedom: March 2004-September 2005



When the 69th Comes Back


Saint Patrick's Day 2004


Checking the Box


The Blacksheep


General Order Number 1



Green in the Desert


Reconnaissance


Shithouse Poets


Mach Jesus



Taji


Task and Purpose


Babes in the Woods


Napalm in the Morning



The Rouge Bouquet


Framework Operations


The First Kill


The Economy of Force



The Infantry


Counterinsurgency


Charlie 24


The Heart of Darkness



Information Operations


Hagar the Horrible


The Most Dangerous Road in the World



Route Irish


Last Man Standing


Checkpoint 541


Vehicle-Borne Death


Saint Patrick's Day 2005



Task Force Wolfhound


Fresh Legs


The Trial


Revenge of the Assassins


Iraquization



Boots Off the Ground


69 Minutes


The Enemy at Home


Afterword: The Operational Reserve


Saint Patrick's Day 2006


Afterword to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments


Index