Service: A Navy SEAL at War (43 page)

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Authors: Marcus Luttrell

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Kyle, Chris.
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.
New York: William Morrow, 2012.

Lubin, Andrew. “Ramadi from the Caliphate to Capitalism.”
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings,
April 2008.

MacPherson, Malcolm.
Roberts Ridge
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Mansoor, Peter R.
Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

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Al-Anbar Awakening, Volume 1: American Perspectives; U.S. Marines and Counterinsurgency in Iraq, 2004–2009.
Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps University Press, 2009.

Michaels, Jim.
A Chance in Hell: The Men Who Triumphed over Iraq’s Deadliest City and Turned the Tide of War.
New York: St. Martin’s, 2010.

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Al-Anbar Awakening, Volume 2: Iraqi Perspectives; From Insurgency to Counterinsurgency in Iraq, 2004–2009.
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Waring, Brett.
Sandy, Earned.
Unpublished manuscript.

*
During Redwing, I and others from SDVT-1 were assigned to serve as extra muscle for Team 10. In the SEAL teams, guys who augment a unit in that way are known as straphangers.

*
That widow, I later discovered, was Kimberly Vaughn.

Contents

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

Map of Ramadi, Iraq

A Note to the Reader

Preface

Prologue: Brotherhood

P
ART
I. How We Fight

1. One More Round

2. SEAL Team 5, Alfa Platoon

3. Never Quit

4. Into the Hornet’s Nest

5. Shakeout Patrol

6. Firecracker

7. Old Men of Anbar

8. Under Fire and Blown to Hell

9. Frogman Down

10. “We’re Not Going to Make It Out of Here Alive”

11. My Enemy, My Friend

12. Going South

13. Sniper One

14. Flight to Al Asad

15. Blood and Victory

P
ART
II. How We Live

16. Hitting the Wall

17. Angels on My Shoulder

18. “You Might Want to Pray Now”

19. That Others May Live

20. Stir-Crazy

21. Family Ties

P
ART
III. How We Die

22. Heroes of the Day

23. The Warrior Queens

24. Links in the Chain

Epilogue. The Flaming Ferris Wheel Spins

SEALs and Underwater Demolition Team Members Killed in Action, 1943–Present

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Also by Marcus Luttrell

Photo Inserts

Newsletters

Bibliography

Copyright

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Author photograph by Kelly Campbell

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