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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe folks at Random House sent me a copy of Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer’s book “Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War<\/a>” Friday night. I didn’t get a chance to start reading until last night – but I made up for lost time, I guess, because I couldn’t put the book down until I’d finished it. The book grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let me put it down until I got to the end.<\/p>\n It was definitely a change of pace from all of the SEAL books which have permeated my reading list recently, but I came away with even more anger at Big Army than I had before, even though I thought that was not possible. Most of the book is about a battle at the village of Ganjigal near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan. American advisers followed an Afghan unit into the town which was basically located at the end of a box canyon and they’d given the Taliban two days notice to set up an ambush in the village and the Taliban took advantage of it. As soon as the Afghans and their American advisers arrived, RPGs, PPKs and 107mm rockets rained down on them in the kill zone.<\/p>\n While they were trapped, Big Army decided that they couldn’t use indirect fire to extricate themselves from the deadly trap, they wouldn’t even fire smoke to cover the withdrawal, because Big Army was concerned about civilian casualties.<\/p>\n Corporal Meyers, who had been left behind at the COB, along with his driver Sergeant Rodriguez charged into the maelstrom with an armored Hummer to rescue the members of his advisory team, but ended up pulling out the dead and wounded, and then charging back into the firefight.<\/p>\n