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The Commando
- The Life and Death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG
- De: Ben Mckelvey
- Narrado por: Nick Farnell
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
From his early life as an up-and coming AFL player to his tours of duty in Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan and his final battle in the dusty Ghawcha village in the Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan - the powerful biography of Cameron Baird, VC, MG, one of Australia's most decorated modern soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Book & Wonderful Narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 01-06-23
- The Commando
- The Life and Death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG
- De: Ben Mckelvey
- Narrado por: Nick Farnell
Fantastic Book & Wonderful Narrator
Revisado: 01-06-23
Well researched, with input from family and fellow soldiers, this is a worthy tribute to a good man, a selfless soldier and a genuine hero. The gifted narrator brought this wonderful story to life
The Commando is an insider's account that gives a human face to U.S. military strategy during the War on Terror. Cameron Baird often claimed that he never achieved anything significant. This magnificent book proves otherwise, showcasing one of the great Aussie military heroes of twenty-first century.
A great read about a great Australian warrior, The Commando captures the essence of this humble but extraordinary Aussie Special Forces legend. From the back alleys of Iraq to the mountain villages of Afghanistan, this Commando set the standard that we all aspired to achieve but rarely met.
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The Ragged Edge
- A US Marine’s Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
- De: Michael Zacchea, Ted Kemp
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
At a time when the United States debates how deeply to involve itself in Iraq and Syria, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea, USMC (Ret.), holds a unique vantage point on our still-ongoing war. Deployed to Iraq in March 2004, his team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi army battalion trained by the US military. Zacchea tells a deeply personal and powerful story while shedding light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurgents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lessons on cultural values
- De lorraine en 04-05-24
- The Ragged Edge
- A US Marine’s Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
- De: Michael Zacchea, Ted Kemp
- Narrado por: John Pruden
A great and gripping read! Highly recommend!
Revisado: 10-12-22
Mike Zacchea was a personal friend, fellow military officer, and veteran. I worked with him through the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) program, a cutting-edge training course that teaches small business management to post-9/11 veterans.
In The Ragged Edge, Mike tells a deeply personal and powerful story while shedding light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurgents. He immersed himself in Iraq’s culture: learning its languages, eating its foods, observing its traditions—even getting inducted into one of its Sunni tribes.
His book is the first American military memoir out of Iraq that features complex Arab and Kurdish characters, and which intimately explores their culture and politics as he experienced it. His invaluable lessons about Americans advising Iraqis to combat a growing insurgency tells an unknown history of the war.
The advisor's role at this stage in the war was arguably the most critical element in the U.S. military strategy in Iraq. As advisors, Mike and his team lived, worked, and fought alongside his Iraqi soldiers, mentoring them and earning their trust. As embedded trainers, they went into combat alongside the Iraqis. As mentors, they were specially trained to act as emissaries for this strategic mission. The goal was for the Iraqi Army to stand alone one day and quiet their country's terrorist elements by themselves, allowing U.S./Coalition forces to pull out of Iraq for good.
Mike's book starts in March 2004, a year after the American-led invasion of Iraq. He relates his experiences as leader of the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion, the first Iraqi battalion to be activated after the fall of Sadaam, at a time when the insurgency exploded. He exposes the origins of the tragic and confounding story of building the Iraqi Army, exploring the history of Saddam's Iraq and detailing the stories of Iraqi and U.S. soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands.
He reminds the reader the last Westerner to build and lead an Arab army was Col. T.E. Lawrence, more famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, more than 100 years before. After several months of training and equipping, the 5th Iraqi Battalion became part of the Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury) a successful joint operation by American, Iraqi and British forces that took nearly seven weeks and became the bloodiest battle of the entire Iraq War.
Mike's memoir is important book, because it gives us the unvarnished account of one combat advisor's tour of duty in Baghdad during the tumultuous year after the American occupation. The reader will learn much about what went wrong in Iraq, and also what was wrong with the American military. There are also valuable lessons for anyone about command in combat.
After being retiring from the Marine Corps., Mike continued to serve, devoting himself to veteran economic reintegration through business ownership, serving on numerous state and federal organizations to assist veterans. In 2009, he founded the UConn EBV program, through which he has helped veterans start more than 140 businesses. Mike helped form a non-profit organization of military advisers in 2006 to help Iraqi interpreters immigrate to the United States, known nationally as Netroots: the List Project. He served on a multi-agency cross-disciplinary working group chaired by the CT Dept of Veterans Affairs focusing on veteran reintegration, education, training, and workforce re-entry issues.
Mike Zacchea passed away in April 2022.
A great and gripping read. The versatile narrator's voice rings loud in this no-holds-barred memoir that traces this decorated veteran's essential story.
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The Book of Mormon, Digging Deeper
- De: Mark Swint
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
This Podcast is designed to dig deep and uncover the extraordinary content found within the Book of Mormon. Each episode takes a close look at elements, evidences, facts, and revelations in the book which not only give us a look at ancient Egyptian and Pre-Columbian history and culture, but also point to the incontrovertible fact that the Book of Mormon is a true and authentic history, translated by the gift of God through the efforts of a very young Joseph Smith, presented to the world for the betterment of all human lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this!
- De Ashley Astle en 12-15-22
Really Well Done
Revisado: 08-28-21
Although I'm not a Latter-Day Saint, I went to college near Independence, Missouri and served in the Army with dozens of Mormons. I've always been curious about the LDS faith and particularly the Book of Mormon. Very enjoyable. Well done, and highly entertaining.
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