{"id":15936,"date":"2016-06-03T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15936"},"modified":"2016-06-03T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:18:26","slug":"profiles-in-courage-the-tank-killers-of-roughneck-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/03\/profiles-in-courage-the-tank-killers-of-roughneck-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles in Courage: The Tank Killers of Roughneck 91"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I highly recommend the book Roughneck 91: The Amazing True Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War<\/a>.\u00a0This happened early on in the War and did not get a lot of coverage, but next to the Marines at Fallujah, this is definitely one of the most amazing stories of the War. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When a group of Green Berets found themselves outnumbered 30 to 1, they held their ground, and then some.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, while the bulk of American forces entered the country from Kuwait, battling their way through cities like Basra and Najaf en route to Baghdad, a smaller contingent entered from the north. Among them was the 3rd Special Forces Group, which, on the 18th day of the war, engaged in the first major offensive by American forces moving from Kurdistan into government-controlled territory of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

Their mission: to sever Highway 2 and prevent the Iraqi army from reaching the oil fields in Kirkuk.<\/p>\n

Even after 13 years of combat operations in the Middle East, one would be hard-pressed to find a story that better highlights the effectiveness of the U.S. Army Special Forces as a small and agile elite fighting force. And it all hinges on the heroic actions of two men: Staff Sgt. Jason D. Brown and Staff Sgt. Jeffrey M. Adamec, who\u2019d both donned the Green Beret for the first time less than a year before.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo guys shut down the attack,\u201d Maj. Curtis W. Hubbard, the company commander in charge of the operation, later told The New York Times<\/a> of Adamec and Brown\u2019s actions. \u201cTwo guys turned an organized Iraqi attack into chaos. They halted an entire motorized rifle company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officially, the skirmish was called the battle of Debecka Pass. But among the commandos on the ground on that day, it became known as \u201cthe Alamo.\u201d And for good reason: The battle pitted 26 Green Berets and their Kurdish allies against a substantially larger and much better-equipped Iraqi force. A 3rd Group company commander later estimated <\/a>that the Americans were outnumbered 30 to 1.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I highly recommend the book Roughneck 91: The Amazing True Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War.\u00a0This happened early on in the War and did not get a lot of coverage, but next to the Marines at Fallujah, this is definitely one of the most amazing stories of the War. -SF When a group…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,3172,1286,1898],"tags":[12038,12039,12040,12041,12042,1582],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}