Detained
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Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his daily life at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Kandahar, Camp Bucca and elsewhere, by writing emails to his friends and family:...they fired their warning shots, disabling (engine block) shots, then lit up the vehicle with their .50 cal. killed two or three and wounded a half dozen more. the .50 cal produces horrendous wounds, not bullet holes, but big chunks just gone, no buttock, no shoulder, just erased. if it hits the torso, no ER visit, just straight to the morgue. the tragic thing: they werent bad guys, just a bad driver. cmon guys, weve been here three years, everybody in Iraq knows, DONT TRY TO RUN AMERICAN CHECKPOINTS! DONT RUN UP ON AMERICAN CONVOYS! its like driving on the right side of the road, its not optional.... i cant blame the marines, youve got about 100 yards, just a few seconds to make the decision; if you dont fire, you and your friends can be dead in another couple seconds. its a helluva burden to place on a 20 year old. something they must live with forever. a burden of their service that often goes unappreciated.... a bunch of customers just rolled into the ER, so i gotta go. looking forward to coming home in may. love to all, brian Published for the first time in this memoir, Detained is a candid look into Americas involvement in the Global War on Terror.Humorous and insightful, you hear what it is like to be a doctor to Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents, to serve at Saddam Husseins trial, and to work with a mostly Muslim population in an occupied country. Dr. Rees gives us a first-hand look at our wars, and at some of the ethical dilemmas faced by a physician on the battlefield: in the morning he may be required to provide medical care to detainees who have killed or maimed US soldiers, and in the afternoon he may have to send US soldiers, who are developing posttraumatic stress, back to combat duty. While attend
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