The expression 'fish in a barrel comes to mind.'īad stuff and bad situations can happen at any time and it happens often. The Army runs on discipline, military runs on discipline. We live in an all-volunteer Army right now, so when these young men and women raise that right hand to say, “I will go and do,” they don’t get a choice after they make that commitment. Why did you avoid getting in a larger policy discussion? Your book very purposefully avoids getting into whether the Army made a mistake in putting COP Keating in that particular location. Allowing them would give a more rounded story and a better 360 perspective of everything that went on that day. I told them, “Well, if we're gonna do a book, it's not gonna be a book about Clint Romesha it's gonna be about the guys, the 52 Americans that served with me that day and the 8 heroes that don’t get to tell their story anymore.” They would be more than welcome and encouraged to be part of the process. If anyone was gonna tell it in the most accurate way, it would probably come out of my voice.Ĭlint Romesha narrates part of his own audiobook. A lot of stuff is coming at you at once.Īfter quite a bit of discussion with a lot of guys I'd served with and the families of the eight men they lost, the consensus was that the best way to tell the story was a first-person perspective from the guy who had boots on the ground. I wanted to give them the ability to voice what they had seen and done and give them credit for all the heroic and courageous actions they did that day.Īfter receiving the medal, I was approached about telling the story, putting it in print, kind of immortalizing it. The motivation in doing the book was being able to bring in all the perspectives of the guys that were there. What's most impressive to me is how reported the story: you talked to other men who were there and you integrate everyone's story into one narrative. Kind of reflect on a few things from growing up, but it does concentrate quite a bit on the Battle of Keating in 2009.

So I guess this isn't really a memoir, is it? Obviously, it can go either way.Ĭlint Romesha took time to speak with us about the book and his own experiences as a veteran looking for employment and how he made the transition back to civilian life.

This graffiti became Red Platoon's motto during its deployment at COP Keating.

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