Embedded : a Marine Corps adviser inside the Iraqi army / by Wesley R. Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Wesley R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal security--Iraq.

Internal security.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Military assistance, American--Iraq.

Military assistance, American.

Iraq--Armed Forces--Training of.

Iraq.

United States. Marine Corps--Officers--Biography.

United States.

United States. Marine Corps--Iraq.

Gray, Wesley R.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2006, 1st Lt. Wesley Gray was deployed as a U.S. Marine Corps military adviser to an Iraqi Army battalion in the Haditha Triad. For 210 days, he lived and fought beside Iraqi soldiers in the most dangerous and austere province of western Iraq. Al-Anbar was filled with an insurgent population traumatized by a recent massacre of twenty-four men, women, and children shot at close range by U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of one of their comrades in a roadside bombing. Despite the high tensions created by the shootings, Gray was able to form a bond with the Iraqis because he had an edg

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: BECOMING AN EMBEDDED MILITARY ADVISER; 1. Guess What? You Are Going to Iraq; 2. Culture Shock ; 3. Preparing for Combat Adviser Duty ; 4. Meeting the Iraqi Army ; Part 2: LEARNING IRAQI ARMY SYSTEMS AND CULTURE ; 5. The First Fight with the Iraqi Army ; 6. Vacationing with the Iraqi Army ; 7. Jamal in the Swahuts; 8. Simple Things Made Difficult; 9. Iraqi Payday Operations ; 10. Insights on Iraqi Culture ; 11. Death Operations ; 12. The Iraqi Officer and Enlisted Relationship ; 13. Iraqis Speak on the Nation, Region, and Military

Part 3: COMBAT OPERATIONS WITH THE IRAQI ARMY 14. Operation Nimer; 15. Mo' Leave, Mo' Problems ; 16. Transitioning to Independent Operations ; 17. The Combat Operations Center Is Launched and the Mission Changes; 18. Chasing Egyptian Insurgents; Part 4: BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE; 19. Contending with Iraq Culture; 20. Violence Spikes; 21. Wayn Jund? (Where Are the Soldiers?); 22. Disaster Strikes; 23. Light at the End of the Tunnel? ; Part 5: ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END ; 24. Civil War and Democracy in Iraq; 25. America Never Looked So Good ; 26. An Assessment

APPENDIX: U.S. Marine Corps Rank StructureGlossary ; Index ; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61251-406-5

OCLC:

853361258