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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.7044342
EAN num: 9780425217511
ISBN number: 0425217515
Label: Berkley Hardcover
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: December 04, 2007
Publishing house: Berkley Hardcover
Sale Popularity Level: 44138
Studio: Berkley Hardcover
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'In the heat of battle, they have one mission-and they accomplish it one bullet at a time.'
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is a special breed of marine for whom the prey is the enemy-and every day is hunting season. This marine is a HOG-a Hunter of Gunman.
These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those marines in Iraq whose sole purpose on the battlefield is to take out the enemy-one combatant at a time. Every time a HOG puts his eye to the glass, it means death for whoever is unlucky enough to end up in his crosshairs. No warning shots. No disabling wounds. No regrets. That's what a HOG does.
Here, former Scout/Sniper Team Leader Milo S. Afong reveals what it takes to be a Hunter of Gunmen. He describes the intensive training that turns expert infantrymen into one-shot life-takers, building Marine Scout/Sniper teams and how they operate in the field-and under fire-and how HOGs get the job done under any conditions.
From sniping from a rooftop in Baghdad, to unknowingly being surrounded in a palm grove in the city of Hit, these stories will transport you right into the heat of the desert war, where one squeeze of the trigger can make all the difference.'
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I enjoyed the book because i learn what the marines and soldiers have gone through and what they sacrafice. I have family who have gone to iraq and this book gave me a glimpse of what they have gone through. alos show how motivated and anxious the marines are to put their training to the ultimate test, by hunting.
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I served in 3rd Battalion 7th Marines Scout Sniper Plt. during Operation Iraqi Freedom 2-3 and knew many of the Scout Snipers included in the stories of this book. I could not put the book down, it was very accurately written, and portrays exactly what it takes to become and operate as a Scout Sniper in combat. It makes me even more proud to be a HOG and part of the very small community. I'd definately recommend this book to my fellow snipers and anyone else interested in the community.
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Although this book is supposed to be a non-fictional collection of short stories from the Marines involved, it reads too much like a novel. I got the feeling that the author was forced to throw in a smattering of fictional events, conversations, and so forth in order to spice it up to keep the readers interest while building up to the firefights detailed by the snipers.
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A great read. This book really gets down to the no non-sense, nitty gritty reality of war told from the point of view of real Marine Snipers.
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This is an unusual book because it describes the feelings and sometimes lack of feelings experienced by the snipers as they do the job they were trained for in the reality of war. It is a gripping and compelling tale of the men who make up the elite unit known as snipers. Unlike many other books in this genre it doesn't push any political agenda but gives a fair and balanced view of what it is like to be a sniper,the adrenaline rush of getting one's "first kill" but also the dangers of "friendly" fire and the fatique and exhaustion experienced when on duty as a sniper. These are average americans from all walks of life who truly are heroes in the manner in which they conduct themselves doing their job and , by killing insurgents, they probably have saved thousands of other marines from dying in Iraq
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