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The silence of war : an old Marine in a young Marine's war / Terrance Patrick McGowan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berkley Caliber, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101988183
  • 1101988185
Other title:
  • Old Marine in a young Marine's war
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Silence of warLOC classification:
  • DS371.413 .M37 2016
Contents:
Prologue -- The long road to war -- Iraq -- An end and a new beginning -- Mojave Viper -- The odyssey -- Kandahar Airfield -- On to Bastion -- Baqua -- Delaram -- The Alamo -- The coming storm -- The attack -- The outside world -- Counterinsurgency -- The trap -- The battle at Feyz al Bad -- From the Alamo to Fort Apache -- Struck down by the plague -- Disney World -- Return to Golestan -- Going home -- A terrible beauty is born -- Epilogue -- Afterword.
Summary: Terry McGowan was a beat cop, a Marine captain, and an FBI Special Agent before retiring at age fifty. But after September 11th, 2001, McGowan was in Iraq, serving as a member of a team of high-ranking retired and active duty military working for the highest level of Marine military intelligence. McGowan's success in Iraq led to a position as a Law Enforcement Professional with the Marines in Afghanistan. There he found himself the oldest member of a platoon on the front line; a platoon that was understrength and under fire. While an eighteen-year-old Marine can't look at a crowd of Afghans and pick out the guilty party, McGowan's years of experience in law enforcement had developedhis eye for the "felony look." His training as a Marine Officer, combined with his experience as an FBI Agent, made McGowan an asset as he struggled to keep up with young Marines while they humped over the mountains. Here, he recounts the many trials of his life of service, providing an intimate glimpse into the horrible realities of modern military conflict. -- Adapted from publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 958.1047 MCG 1 Available T00612989
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With a Foreword by Bill O'Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.

Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty. But when tragedy struck the United States on September 11th, 2001, Terry felt an undiminished sense of duty to protect and serve his country.

Six years later, he was in Iraq as a member of a team of high ranking retired and active duty military working for the highest level of Marine military intelligence. His success in Iraq led to a position as a Law Enforcement Professional with the Marines in Afghanistan. There he found himself the oldest member of a platoon on the front line; a platoon that was understrength and under fire. While an eighteen year old Marine can't look at a crowd of Afghans and pick out the guilty party, with his years of experience in law enforcement, Terry had developed an eye for the "felony look".

His training as a Marine Officer combined with his experience as an FBI Agent made him a unique asset as he struggled to keep up with young Marines while they humped over the mountains.

In The Silence of War , Terry recounts the many trials of his life of service, providing an intimate glimpse into the horrible realities of modern military conflict.

INCLUDES PHOTOS

"Forward Operating Base Delaram."

Prologue -- The long road to war -- Iraq -- An end and a new beginning -- Mojave Viper -- The odyssey -- Kandahar Airfield -- On to Bastion -- Baqua -- Delaram -- The Alamo -- The coming storm -- The attack -- The outside world -- Counterinsurgency -- The trap -- The battle at Feyz al Bad -- From the Alamo to Fort Apache -- Struck down by the plague -- Disney World -- Return to Golestan -- Going home -- A terrible beauty is born -- Epilogue -- Afterword.

Terry McGowan was a beat cop, a Marine captain, and an FBI Special Agent before retiring at age fifty. But after September 11th, 2001, McGowan was in Iraq, serving as a member of a team of high-ranking retired and active duty military working for the highest level of Marine military intelligence. McGowan's success in Iraq led to a position as a Law Enforcement Professional with the Marines in Afghanistan. There he found himself the oldest member of a platoon on the front line; a platoon that was understrength and under fire. While an eighteen-year-old Marine can't look at a crowd of Afghans and pick out the guilty party, McGowan's years of experience in law enforcement had developedhis eye for the "felony look." His training as a Marine Officer, combined with his experience as an FBI Agent, made McGowan an asset as he struggled to keep up with young Marines while they humped over the mountains. Here, he recounts the many trials of his life of service, providing an intimate glimpse into the horrible realities of modern military conflict. -- Adapted from publisher description.

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Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Pete Larkin deftly displays his experience as a sports announcer, voice actor, and reader in his outstanding reading of this unique memoir of the war in Afghanistan. McGowan is a former marine officer and member of law enforcement, both federal and local, whose skills in discerning the "felony look" were used to distinguish friendlies from hostiles. As a uniformed Department of Defense civilian, he was attached to a marine platoon and endured all the travails of combat and survival in the wilds of Afghanistan with comrades young enough to have been his children or even grandchildren. Pete Larkin's deep, resonant bass voice very nimbly relates all of this to the listener. He reads almost effortlessly, with pacing and expression perfect for every phrase of this memoir of war. VERDICT All libraries should consider this.-Michael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll. Lib., Lynchburg © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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