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Also by Jim DeFelice:

They Called Us "Lucky", October 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Act of Revenge, February 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Puppet Master, September 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
American Wife, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Drone Strike, June 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Code Name: Johnny Walker, February 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Collateral Damage, December 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Black Wolf, December 2010
Mass Market Paperback
Rogue Warrior, October 2008
Hardcover
Dreamland: Retribution, September 2007
Mass Market Paperback

Also by Ruben Gallego:

They Called Us "Lucky", October 2022
Paperback / e-Book

They Called Us "Lucky"
Jim DeFelice, Ruben Gallego

The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

Mariner Books
October 2022
On Sale: October 18, 2022
Featuring: Ruben
336 pages
ISBN: 006304580X
EAN: 9780063045804
Kindle: B08VN85H39
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography | Historical

At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

Then, in May 2005, Lima’s fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben’s best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation.

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