They Called Us Lucky - The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit - Ruben Gallego
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 WarAt 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..