hewey and sergeant strickland lived but were medevac back to the united states. and sergeant hewey who had been the squad leader and father figure really for all the guys that i've mentioned died there. so i'm going to join up where kenneth eastridge had just gotten. as the sun would have eastridge tried to keep himself squared away. he was guarding the same alley where the blast knocked him to the dirt. now in the failing light, us by late in the narrow passage between the wall. no flash, no risk, no explanation, just a human spine. eastridge his battalion had spent months preparing for iraq, and here they were totally unprepared he was trained to shoot and he had been in an attack that wounded several soldiers and killed the man who hidden he counted on most. but it not been able to fire a shot. guns were almost useless. does no good way to defend against a roadside bomb or a suicide bomber. all the training to outshoot, outmaneuver, and outthink enemy soldiers proved futile because the enemy in iraq was not a soldier. he was a shadow. a disease that wafted him