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200 10$aEmbedded $ea Marine Corps adviser inside the Iraqi army /$fby Wesley R. Gray
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aAnnapolis, Maryland :$cNaval Institute Press,$d2009.
215   $a1 online resource (287 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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327   $aTable 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
327   $aPart 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
327   $aAPPENDIX: U.S. Marine Corps Rank StructureGlossary ; Index ; About the Author
330   $aIn 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
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