Det. 25: A Soldier's Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781684987993)

When Sergeant First Class Haley and 35 other Soldiers in Detachment 25 deployed to Afghanistan on a mission to mentor the training and development of the Afghanistan National Army, they did not know how chewed up the situation was. Selected from volunteers within the Ninety-Fifth Division, the Army Reserve Drill Sergeants of Det. 25 discovered that training the ANA was a joke. Afghanistan was a toilet that needed to be flushed of its Taliban turds, but that was never going to happen. What did happen was that the entire world took a crap all over that country and left it more of a mess than it was before Operation Enduring Freedom began. Nation-building is a failure, and the United States must never again attempt it anywhere else in the world. Whenever someone tells the truth about military or political incompetence in the United States, the government feigns plausible deniability or tries to suppress the truth. This story tells the truth about a group of American heroes and legends who did not deserve a loss for their sacrifices. Thanks to the worst president in American history, the loss of American lives has become a joke. Americans can only laugh about OEF because there is nothing else anyone can do now except to have faith, hope, and love.