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It's the rule - always watch your fives and twenty-fives. Whenever a convoy halts to research a possible roadside bomb, stay static in the automobile and scan five meters in every way. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the shield, eradicating everyone in the pick up truck. Once clear, get out and sweep 25 meters. A bomb inside 25 meters eliminates the dismounted scouts investigating the road in advance. Fives and Twenty-Fives marks the way of measuring a marine's life in the road-repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to make sure safe passage for citizens and military employees. Their mission does not have the glory of the infantry, however in a battle where every pothole includes a concealed bomb, street repair brings its hazard. Lieutenant Donavan leads the platoon, painfully aware of his shortcomings and isolated by his get ranking. Doc Pleasant, the medic, became a member of for opportunity, but locates his delight undone as he pieces friends expire. And there's Kateb, known to the People in america as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of American culture - from hip-hop to the dog-eared backup of Huck Finn he provides - is matched up only by his disdain for what People in america are doing to his country. Returning home, they exchange one group of decisions and repercussions for another, struggling to find a location in a world that no longer is aware of them. A debut both transcendent and rooted in the flesh, Fives and Twenty-Fives is a deeply necessary book.
