Synopsis
“Valhalla Boys is definitely a different read from what you would expect from a soldier’s tale of fighting in Iraq. You really get inside the mind of the author. It’s more about what it means to be a fighter than about Iraq… writing also makes it feel like a novel sometimes rather than an autobiography. It makes for a very distinctive tale.” – Musings on Iraq
In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the operators of Black Flag One. With their motto “swift, silent, deadly,” the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were trained for unconventional warfare but they were tasked with holding and securing swathes of the country, facing Insurgents who were adapting their tactics to kill as many Coalition soldiers as possible using IEDs. It was a terrifying new phase of the war where every disturbed patch of dirt, every piece of rubbish, every civilian acting oddly could mean instant death.
Into this cauldron of hate came a young Marine recon sniper. Brennan Morton had been fascinated by war and the military as long as he could remember, and had signed up for the Marines as an enlisted after 9/11. Developed from writing undertaken at the suggestion of his VA therapist, his immersive memoir takes the reader through selection and training and the first patrol sweeping for caches, to endless night watches, and deadly IED attacks.
Table of Contents
1. Distance and Therapy
2. A Joker Born to Kill
3. Melted Down and Remolded
4. Whipping Boy
5. Tin Soldier
6. Bloodsport
7. The Giggle Game
8. Mason
9. Scarface
10. Apples and Oranges.. and Pears
11. The Road to Hell is Paved Through Attrition
12. Holding Tank
13. Pen or the Sword
14. The Schoolhouse
15. Rain, Rain, Go Away
16. Gas, Gas, Gas
17. Trail of Tears
18. Tall Tales and Taller Hills
19. One Sandal Country
20. Beggars Can Be Choosers
21. Know Your Frenemy
22. Close Encounters of the Fourth kind
23. Military Jeanyus
24. The Night Written a Hundred Times
25. No Rest for the Wicked
26. Dinner and a Show
27. One Square Kilometer
28. Allah, Pele, and Coca-Cola
29. Red, White, and Blue on Blue
30. Checkmate
31. The Cave: the Constant Daydream
32. The Cave: Rebirth
33. Dying With a Brother
34. The Return Trip Down Guilt Way
35. Blue Falcons
36. Tent in the middle of Nowhere
37. Blowing the door of Opportunity
38. Black hawk Downer
39. No Going Home
40. The One-Square-Mile City
41. Pink Mist
42. Finale
43. The Longest Flight
44. It’s the Little Things In Life
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About the Author
After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, Brennan Morton joined the U.S. Marine Corps as an enlisted, where he became a sniper, breacher, and team leader in a Reconnaissance Battalion. He deployed for two combat tours in Iraq before opening a gym in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he currently lives with Christine and their daughter Pepper.
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