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They Called Us 'Lucky': The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
From the Arizona Congressman, a 21st-century Band of Brothers chronicling the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were Lucky Lima. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservationsreturned 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. Read more