First to Fire: An Embedded Training Team Member Experience in Afghanistan 2006

By Andy Schouten

A detailed personal account of a combat advisor, mentoring the developing Afghanistan National Army in 2006 in the mountainous and hostile eastern region. A genuinely unique deployment with several different assignments on several different bases, with highs of firing howitzers and an air assault on a mountaintop to the lows of extreme boredom and no food service support. Living with and supporting a foreign military, Andy was critical in enabling the Afghan forces to fire their howitzer indirectly, a historical objective milestone to set the conditions for coalition withdrawal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1096398087
• ISBN13: 9781096398080
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"