Overview

On April 6th. 2003, twenty-six Green Berets, including those of Sergeant First Class Frank Antenori's Special Forces A-Team (call sign Roughneck Nine One), fought a vastly superior force at a remote crossroads near the village of Debecka, Iraq. The enemy unit had battle tanks and 150 well-trained, well-equipped and well-commanded soldiers. The Green Berets stopped the enemy advance then fought them until only a handful of Iraqi survivors finally fled the battlefield. In the process, the Nine One encountered hordes of news media and at the peak of the fight, a US Navy F-14 dropped a 500-pound bomb into the middle of a group of supporting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, killing and wounding dozens. Roughneck Nine One is the never-before-told, unsanitized story of the fight for the crossroads at Debecka, Iraq, and a unique inside look at a Special Forces A-team as it recruits and organizes, trains for combat, and eventually fights a battle against a huge opposing force in Iraq.

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"A gripping account.... A notable contribution to the literature on both the Iraq war and the capabilities of special-ops units.-- ""Booklist"" ""A gripping account.... A notable contribution to the literature on both the Iraq war and the capabilities of special-ops units."" -- ""Booklist"" ""A gritty inside look at a Special Forces team at work."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""A powerful no-holds barred, first-hand account...Captures the professionalism, comradeship, self-sacrifice, and courage that define the heart and soul of America's finest warriors."" -- ""Tom Yarborough, author of Da Nang Diary"""

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Frank Antenori was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania; He joined the U.S. Army shortly after graduating from high school in 1984. After four years as a Nuclear Weapons Specialist, he joined the Special Forces in 1988. Since then, he has participated in numerous peacetime and wartime operations in support of American interests, in over thirty-four countries, throughout the world. Hans Halberstadt has authored or coauthored more than fifty books, mostly on US Special Operations forces, armor, and artillery. He served in the US Army as a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam. He lives in San Jose, California. Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

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