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In his November 19, 2005 presidential address, President George W. Bush summarized U.S. military policy as,'Our situation can be summed up this way: as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.'EMBEDDED offers a firsthand account by a young Marine military advisor serving on the frontlines with the Iraqi Army of the effectiveness of America's efforts to help the Iraqis stand on their own. As a Division I track athlete and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Wes Gray was given a full scholarship to the Ph.D. program in finance at the University of Chicago, the top ranked program in the world. However, after passing his comprehensive exams and while weighing offers from Wall Street, he had an epiphany: the right thing to do before taking on the challenges of the business world was to serve his nation and fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a United States Marine. In 2006, 1st. Lt. Gray was deployed as a Marine Corps military advisor to live and fight with an Iraqi Army battalion for two hundred and ten days in the Haditha Triad, a small population center in the dangerous and austere al-Anbar Province of western Iraq.What he encountered was a

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Author

Wesley R. Gray USMC (Ret.)

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781591143406

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.25 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14