Outlaw Platoon

Outlaw Platoon

by Sean Parnell

"Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan"

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Outlaw Platoon Book Details

War:

War in Afghanistan

Military Unit:

US Army

True Story:

Yes

Biography:

No

Region:

Middle East

Page Count:

384

Published Date:

2013

ISBN13:

9780062066404

Outlaw Platoon Book Description

At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon, the 10th Mountain Division—a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws. Tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a valley in the Hindu Kush, Parnell assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians until, in May 2006, a routine patrol turned into a brutal ambush. Through sixteen months of combat, the platoon became Parnell's family. The cost of battle was high for these men. Not all of them made it home, but for those who did, it was the love and faith they found in one another that ultimately kept them alive.