Roughneck Nine-One

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Review #1

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“Roughneck 91” (R91) is a deeply ironic five act play about a particular SOF ODA and ODB. The author of R91 is apparently a descendant of the great warrior Aeneas, but more closely resembles Aeneas’ battlefield comrade, Achilles [the prototypical narcissist]. Like Achilles, he is a great warrior, but also like Achilles, he is brash, arrogant, insolent, disrespectful of C2, and, apparently, because of these qualities, unpromotable. Let’s refer to him as SFC Y (“as a courtesy to his family”). Act One [Exposition]–SOF’s operational role is, among other roles, unconventional warfare, recon, and hit and run ops. SOF are the “quiet professionals.” (Given this book, this description seems highly ironic.) SOF plan their operations carefully, weighing the risks and anticipating and planning for contingencies. In short, they are mindful, not stupidly reckless warriors. Even so, conventional infantry units consider SOF reckless showboats. Among SOF teams, R91 is considered the black sheep. Act Two [Rising Action]–R91 is inserted into Iraq and moves to location near Debecka, up the road from Makhmur. Against unit commander’s better instincts, R91 moves from cover to open unreconned ground to interdict a busy road intersection, and is unpleasantly surprised when caught in the open by a vastly superior force of allegedly well trained Iraqi soldiers with Russian made T 55 tanks (a battalion or maybe a brigade). Troops caught in open are unsafe from direct and indirect weapon’s fire, and, typically, a superior force with superior fire power will overwhelm an inferior force with inferior fire power. What about an inferior force with some cover from direct weapon’s fire and with superior direct and indirect fire power? Act Three [Climax]–R91 reacts to the superior Iraqi force by retreating post haste to a position of defilade (viz., luckily finds cover behind a small hillock). Troops behind cover are safe from direct weapon’s fire; unsafe from indirect weapon’s fire (fire from artillery, mortars and airplanes). R91 is unscathed from Iraqi indirect fire either because it is lucky or because the Iraqi’s are incompetent. R91 then responds to the superior force with its special SOF’s skills and weapons; in SFC Y’s metaphor, R91 proceeds “to eat the elephant one bite at a time” (hit and run ops or basic Indian fighting). Namely, R91 kills tanks, APCs and trucks with expensive hand held Javelin missiles. (American technological and material superiority is the clear hero of this drama.) R91 attempts unsuccessfully to direct air strikes onto troops and tanks in defilade. In the fog of battle, someone fails to alert the pilot of aircraft of a similar potentially confusing Gestalt or troop configuration of Kurdish allies behind R91, resulting in bombs on Kurds. [No fault is assigned.] Act Four [Falling Action]–R91 is prevented by his commander “Major X” (who is implicitly characterized as a brass hat) from completing R91’s mission–namely, moving to the intersection to rifle through the dead Iraqi soldiers for possible intelligence. R91 is ordered to stay in place (a static position) and while in that position repeatedly alerts the Iraqi’s to its position by allowing a media circus in situ, Iraqi recon of its position, etc. Iraqi’s direct artillery onto R91’s position. R91 survives because of luck and because Iraqi gunners are inept. If the Iraqi’s had a modicum of skill, R91 would be blown to bits. Then Major X allegedly flees the battlefield toward the rear. [One senses that this book was written more to degrade Major X than to extol R91.] Act Five [Denouement]–SFC Y is his own chorus. He sings of R91’s courage and battlefield effectiveness in face of a superior enemy force. Because of R91’s battlefield effectiveness, SOF is recognized by high command as having potential for a greater role in achieving military objectives. SOF command also recognizes SFC Y’s special skill for self-promotion, sending him on a SOF’s promotional tour. But SFC Y condemns SOF brass for failing to hand out more medals for R91’s unsung enlisted heroes. SFC Y again condemns Major X. SFC Y retires after twenty years of service. But Major X is promoted ahead of his peers. [The timeless theme of the enlisted man’s antipathy for field officers.] One has the sense that if Major X were less like Odysseus and more like Achilles, SFC Y would have liked him better. Whatever Major X’s faults (and given SFC Y’s personality, it is unclear whether Major X has a fair hearing in this book), SFC Y, however brave, would have been the better man for not having aired this laundry in public.

Review #3

Audiobook Roughneck Nine-One by Frank Antenori

This is one of those books that is so compelling, you can’t put down for fear of losing that feeling of being in the moment. The author’s enthusiasm gets your blood flowing and is one of the more realistic portrayals, in my opinion, of the war on the ground and what is going through the minds of the guys who are, normally, the first “boots on the ground”…The Green Berets. Literally the first in and last out of most any modern conflict zone, the embodiment of the gentlemen warrior, forging relationships with the local populace and tackling seemingly impossible missions that many times more resemble those of the Peace Corps than military operations…until provoked. It takes a certain type of person to fill this role and I especially enjoyed reading the instances where the differences between the mindset of Special Forces and the regular, conventional Army are laid bare. There is an undeniable difference in the way the chain of command and rank are viewed, along with differences in the way teams operate in the field and in how “out-of-the-box thinking” is applied in a way that would NEVER work, in the Regular Army. They are, after all, masters of unconventional warfare and, by the author’s admission, “odd ducks” when compared to the usual image of the conventional soldier. Absolutely unapologetic in tone, this was a group of guys who were there to win and clear their objectives with whatever lethal means was at their disposal. And believe me, they made sure bring enough with them. I’ve read other material and watched documentaries about the Battle of Debecka Pass, but now I feel like I understand it. It was easy to feel the tense nature of this very fluid engagement, against overwhelming odds, that produced America’s first Javelin missile “Ace”. I appreciate and salute the men of ODA-391…you definitely “piled them up”!

Review #4

Audio Roughneck Nine-One narrated by Patrick Lawlor

Review #5

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Let me start by saying that I was and am all for the invasion of Iraq. I also have the greatest respect for any soldier who makes it into a US Special Forces unit. That’s something that interests me and that’s why I bought this book. It was my second book about SF, the first one was “Lone Survivor” and I really enjoyed it.
Now this book’s back cover tells of a battle by a handful of SF soldiers that “is already legendary and that will influence SF tactics for years to come”. Wow, I thought, that must be a good story.
Well, the first 100 pages or so were good- it was what you would expect- how he got into SF, how they prepared for the war, who were the other team members and so on.
But then the “legendary battle” begins and I could not help but be left disappointed. A couple of trigger-happy SF guys want to close down a highway in Iraq, ok. Then tanks appear and they are lucky to be able to withdraw in one piece. They find a sheltered position up a hill and are lucky enough that the tanks and APCs don’t go after them. They get out their Javelin rockets and take out the APCs and some trucks. When they see another tank the next day, even if it far away, they try to shoot it knowing it was almost impossible, but hey, what are 75,000$? And for good measure drop 2 2,000 pound bombs from a B-52 on top of that single tank out of eyesight before it even gets close enough to see it. Also the team members seem more like teenagers wanting to get some action (“please let me shoot the rocket before the war is over”) than professional, highly trained SF soldiers.
To me this book is a tribute to modern US weapons but I saw not a lot that would speak of a legendary battle. They were lucky to have these Javelins and to have an enemy that did stay put and wait to be taken out by modern technology.
There was no heroism apart from saving the wounded Kurds after that huge blunder of friendly fire from a US fighter-bomber. The motto “9-1 don’t run” was true only because the Iraqis didn’t go after them and the author admits that.
I would not recommend this book.

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