Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command

I would like to thank Captain Roger Hill and Lynn Vincent for having the courage to write this book. It is an answer to my prayers and it is with deep sadness at the deep personal cost to you Captain Hill and 1st SGT Tommy Scott for taking a stand against the higher echelons of rank in the military. Not to mention the DoD and the pack of lunatics that run the asylum. I am a 55 year old housewife (armchair general as it were) who is aChristian and has followed the war for along time, I have been a military history nut since I was seventeen years old. I went into the Armyand chose to get out. I was eighteen My immaturity! Having put that little bio in, through the years I have carefully selected books to read about theAfghanistan and Iraq wars. My fury level rose when Allen West, Illario Pantano, Michael Behenna, Clint Lorance, to Navy Seals asking for a Captains Mast and many others who I know are in Ft. Leavenworth, drummed out, kicked out and retired out of the military. All have been investigated by CID (a joke when you read each case) and tried by the U.S. Military Court of Justice under the most outrageous and egregious charges. While the top brass continues to lead the systematic dysfunction or are now retired and raking in the money on lecture circuits. Their are good men that lead in our military but they are becoming fewer and fewer. Through this book and many others I have read it greatly disturbs meat the level of moral bankruptcy we have arrived at. in our military by our leaders. They are the ones who the responsibility should ultimately rest on for the functioning and well being of our military not the other way around. In the last 14 years I have seen the decisions that createdcommand environments, those who chose to put FOP's and COP's in places that are tactically insane to do so. They are one's who make tactical decisions in major over all encompassing missions, kill ratio's, on and on I could go. In the last 14 years the lower ranks have had to pay for these officers decisions and mistakes. Some very honorable men have been made to pay dearly. I am not talking about the misfits of the military. I have notice for a long time now when I read about a high or low profile incident you never hear or see any written or verbal statements by these soldiers line officers standing up for their men or drawing a line in the sand for them. Not one! Do officers now feel they do not have to have their men's backs anymore? It has reached the point were men like Captain Hill and 1st SGT Tommy Scott have had to take a stand and drawn the line of truth in the sand so it will reflect back and mirror back the evilness to those who perpetrate, condone or just stand by and let someone take the fall. It has to stop NOW! It is not honorable to stand aside! Captain Hill and 1st SGT Tommy Scott, the stand you made was not in vain. This book is a clarion call for others to wake up and step up. I believe you will see in time the effect what you both did. It breaks my heart to see what you have gone through and maybe still going through. May God Bless you both and your families, and the men who served under you. For those of you who are just becoming aware of this abuse go online to United Patriots Fund, the Leavenworth 10 and other websites out there to see how you can help by calling and writing your Congressmen, Senators to the President. Even to the men themselves who are in prison by no fault of their own. Find out when the clemency hearings are, write to the clemency board NICELY though. Give to the United Patriots fund. These men have families that have mortgaged everything to fight these charges all the way to Clemency hearings. It does work! We got Michael Behenna out. Clint Lorance is working on a clemency hearing. His mother has had a heart attack and a stroke. Please get behind these guys we have to make it right. I am stepping off my soap box now and would like to say may God bless and restore you both Captain Hill and 1st SGT Tommy Scott. You are honorable men do not ever forget it.

disclosure: Im a pro military hawkish right winger.I'm really troubled about the US' future and the future of its armed forces. This stuff is not rare. In fact American Sniper mentioned that every sniper kill had to be reviewed by a military lawyer. This book, with minimal differences, is almost exactly the same plot as Breaker Morant and the book it was derived from. Red Platoon. Beyond the Call. Honor and Betrayal...The Men the Mission and Me....all have similar troubling themes.Now i'm not military. Never have been. But I've read quite a few books on war from sweeping accounts to personal stories. This crap, which offends me as an american citizen, is apparently endemic. Idiotic couch generals making decisions from 5000 miles away. Asinine rules of engagement. Crippling shortages of critical materials. And it is, thankfully not limited to us; Rommel quit the war for the same reason, abandoning the men he lead and loved because Hilter and the imbeciles he surrounded himself with wouldn't get enough supplies to Rommel to do his job, fortunately for us...As much of a skeptic as I am, i fully believe every single word of this book. My heart goes out to Hill and Scott; I could feel the horrible trapped feeling they had. I kept shouting to myself "take the plea!" and "don't do it!" simultaneously.In addition, when I read this, I am repulsed by things that I find not becoming of a world power's military...to whit...the entire nature of military justice and the lopsided formation of court martials? The fact - seen all too frequently - that we rely on locals with an entirely different culture of truth and integrity for help on the bases? In Erik Prince's book about Blackwater he made it clear- the US military couldn't function without them, nor could it without contractors on the ground. Bringing in potential spies and terrorists to work on your base....correct me if i'm wrong...did we do that in Korea? France? Tarawa? and also, there seems to be a culture now that it is the men then the mission. I've read thousands of pages of WWII history and never heard anything that suggested that the platoons would take a day off for mourn and have a funeral. It is wonderful that our culture celebrates the loss of 2 men so thoroughly, but I never heard of anything like that in WWII when thousands were being killed a day. Sure, there were truces so that the sides could fetch their dead, but i think it was culturally inconceivable that they'd stop the battle of Monte Cassino or Kasserine to have a funeral. They just pushed on. And this contempt for the grunt isn't new. In Atkinson's trilogy there was a very offhand story about a group of americans celebrating, I believe, a push up into France or Italy by getting drunk, and the general, and damned if I can remember his name - I think he was from Vermont or Delaware - ordered them executed. Let me repeat. After the carnage they endured to succeed in their mission, they were getting drunk (NOT during battle, I should add, or maneuvers..) and he ordered them executed. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed. But what a repulsive thought.In addition, this entire thing about hearts and minds, putting americans on these far flung bases to deal with taliban and treacherous locals, without adequate supplies, with joystick jockeys back in North CArolina countermanding their decisions, just doesn't work.I'm sorry. Get 'em out, put 'em to work here guarding our borders, and redirect the resources we're wasting to clear up the Islamofascist fifth column and its useful idiots (the media) here. I do worry about the IED maker in afghanistan, but I worry more about the truck bomber in Kansas City.

Hands down, this is the best book I've read in more than 20 years and is a strong #2 behind only the legendary 'Band of Brothers'. The authors' words put you in the middle of the action with Captain Hill and his men. Get ready to run the gamut of emotions along with the soldiers of Dog Company. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be amazed. You'll shake your head in dismay. You. Won't. Be. Able. To. Put. It. Down. Captain Hill's fight off the battlefield was just as brave as his efforts on it. It's mind-numbing to think that our government has ROE and rules in place that handicap our military like this. An absolute must-read ... from the author's note to the acknowledgments. Thank you, Captain Hill for your service, standing up for your men, and for sharing your -- and their -- story with us. God bless you always.

I liked the book just fine. Some slow parts but still good. Politics should stay off the battlefield. One two

A book that must be read to to understand how the infantry story and their fight against the taiban and the losses they suffered by the Taliban were then put on trial for war crimes because they interrogated captured Taliban fighters not your finest hourU S A BUT TO Read COMPANY YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IT COULD BE TRUE ROY SAYWELL WHO BELIEVES IN AMERICAN MIGHT ORE DID UNTIL I READ THIS BOOK WHAT SHAME A BAND OF BROTHERS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES NOT BY THE TALIBAN BUT BY THEIR OWN PENTIGON SHAME,,

Really well written story that emphasis just how pointless the Afghan war was. Throwing soldiers into situations they should never have been placed. Having read similar stories on the British contribution it seems military and political leadership are very similar. Looking after themselves rather than the soldiers they lead. Definitely worth reading.

A well written book. Recommended.

Amazing book about the tough situations soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and other locations under the war of terror have to deal with on a day to day basis. Highly recommend this book.