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"In war, damage is all over the place. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." (Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander) From the winter of 2006 through the springtime of 2007, 250 marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Sea Regiment, fought daily in the dangerous, dense city roadways of Ramadi, Iraq, through the Multi-National Pushes Surge ordered by Chief executive George W. Bush. The marines' quest: to get rid of or get anti-Iraqi pushes. Their experience: like being in hell. Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, calls for listeners back again to the roadways of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat. Bound jointly by brotherhood, honor, and the horror they faced, Echo's marines battled day to day on the frontline of a totally different kind of war, without guidelines, built on chaos. In Echo in Ramadi, Huesing brings these resilient, resolute teenagers to life and shows the way the savagery of urban combat still left indelible scars on their body, psyches, and souls. Like war classics We Were Troops, The Yellow Birds, and Technology Remove, Echo in Ramadi can be an unforgettable capsule of one company's experience of war that will leave listeners stunned.
