Roughneck NineOne, SFC Frank Antenori, US Army Ret.
Roughneck NineOne, SFC Frank Antenori, US Army Ret.
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Roughneck Nine-One
The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War

Author: SFC Frank Antenori, US Army (Ret.), Hans Halberstadt

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/03/2006


Synopsis

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.

About SFC Frank Antenori, US Army (Ret.)

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.


Reviews

This is a good book. Upon reflection however I have decided to rate it 3 stars. The reason is that while the book is very interesting there is a great deal of it that if you aren't yourself military you won't find interesting. The book here tells the story it sets out to tell but it does it in a grea......more

Goodreads review by Jim

For a guy like me this book is both a marvel and a revelation. I was in Vietnam in Special Forces, and after that I was a writer and editor, mostly about the war and the guerrilla wars of the eighties. After writing seven books about that and editing somewhere around two hundred I have become highly......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

A mediocre book about great people involved in important events. Basically, a brief intro to life in US Army Special Forces, with some about 1990s life and then a focus on ODA 391 and a few of their early Iraq war missions. The main focus is on tactical aspects of combat and grinding an axe against......more