Recounts the harrowing experiences of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion as they navigated the challenges of serving as provisional infantrymen in the hostile Arghandab Valley during 2010-2011. Sons of the Arghandab tells the story of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion, 101st Airborne, in the Arghandab Valley, 2010-2011. The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate orchards. It's also known as the birthplace of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar and Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and was a major crossing route for weapons coming from Pakistan into Kandahar. This hostile environment had already claimed the lives of many seasoned Infantrymen. But the Top Guns weren't infantrymen, they were artillerymen, deployed without their usual weapons and with minimal last-minute training, redesignated as "provisional infantrymen." Painstakingly researched by one of the Top Guns and told through the perspectives of the men who survived that terrible year, this is the harrowing story of Alpha, HHB, and Bravo Batteries as they undertook the challenges of an Artillery unit charged with an Infantry mission in the most hostile killing fields in Afghanistan.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Sons of the Arghandab
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Death of Innocence
- 2 The RIP
- 3 Into the Devil’s Playground
- 4 The Alamo (COP Nolen)
- 5 Luck Always Runs Out
- 6 Battle for Bakersfield (COP Stout)
- 7 The Boys of Babur (COP Babur)
- 8 The Longest Day
- 9 Hard Right Over the Easy Wrong
- 10 Welcome to the Havoc
- 11 Ant Trails to the Man at the First Canal
- 12 Cigarette Embers, MICLICs, and Tarok Kolache
- 13 The Men Hidden Beneath the Rocks
- 14 Strong Point Stansbery
- 15 Strong Point Weaver
- 16 Infrared Chem Lights and IEDs
- 17 Living in the Grape Furrows Watching the Leaves Turn
- 18 Graveyards Filled with Broken Dreams
- 19 The Final Mission
- 20 Eulogies, Uniforms, and Sad Stories
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