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Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military. Quickly, he realized he was faced with a nearly impossible task. With just two weeks' training based on outdated and irrelevant materials, no language instruction, and few cultural tips for interacting with his battalion of Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Yazidis, and others, Zacchea arrived at his base in Kirkush to learn his recruits would need beds, boots, uniforms, and equipment. His Iraqi officer counterparts spoke little English. He had little time to transform his troops -- mostly poor, uneducated farmers -- into a cohesive rifle battalion that would fight a new insurgency erupting across Iraq. In order to stand up a fighting battalion, Zacchea knew, he would have to understand his men. Unlike other combat Marines in Iraq at the time, he immersed himself in Iraq's culture: learning its languages, eating its foods, observing its traditions?even being inducted into one of its Sunni tribes. A constant source of both pride and frustrati

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Author

Zacchea, Michael; Kemp, Ted; Eaton, Paul D.

Publisher

Chicago Review Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613738443

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Military

Rating

4.8 / 5 (112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14