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Valhalla Boys: Marine Recon Sniper in Iraq

Valhalla Boys: Marine Recon Sniper in Iraq

Morton, Brennan

Hardcover

Military BiographiesArmed ForcesIraq War (2003-2011)

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1636244815
ISBN13: 9781636244815
Publisher: Casemate
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Winner, The Eugene Sledge Award for Outstanding Memoir, 2025 Marine Corps Heritage Awards

In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the operators of Black Flag One. With their motto swift, silent, deadly, the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were trained for unconventional warfare but they were tasked with holding and securing swathes of the country, facing Insurgents who were adapting their tactics to kill as many Coalition soldiers as possible using IEDs. It was a terrifying new phase of the war where every disturbed patch of dirt, every piece of rubbish, every civilian acting oddly could mean instant death.

Into this cauldron of hate came a young Marine recon sniper. Brennan Morton had been fascinated by war and the military as long as he could remember, and had signed up for the Marines as an enlisted after 9/11. Developed from writing undertaken at the suggestion of his VA therapist, his immersive memoir takes the reader through selection and training and the first patrol sweeping for caches, to endless night watches, and deadly IED attacks.

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