Now with a forward by Sean Hannity, this powerful story of
brotherhood, bravery, and patriotism exposes the true stories behind
some of the Army's darkest secrets.
The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to
advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting
American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new
lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines
while setting free spies who kill Americans.
This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men.
Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young
officer who had always followed the letter of the military law. In 2007,
Hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st
Airborne. His new unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had just returned
stateside from the hell of Ramadi. The men were brilliant in combat but
unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days.
With tough love, Hill and his First Sergeant, an old-school former drill
instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers
in the battalion.
Hill and Scott then led Dog Company into combat in Afghanistan, where a
third of their men became battlefield casualties after just six months.
Meanwhile, Hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a
charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every
turn. After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a
counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base
in the violent province of Wardak. Abandoned by his high command, Hill
suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he
always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men
he'd grown to love.
