Summary

In December 2006, Owen and his squad were deployed to Western Iraq. He had spent some time working closely with the CIA on a recent deployment. Their mission was to stop couriers who were bringing foreign fighters and Iranian weapons across the Syrian border. The squad was also asked by Marines in Al Anbar to help them clear some houses in a Syrian border village where insurgents were being given safe haven.

The SEAL team was left off a mile or more away from the village so the enemy wouldn’t hear the copters. It took the team an hour to get to the target village that cold night. The village was rundown and the smell of sewage was in the air. The teams split off to their assigned targets. Owen and his team entered the gate to the abandoned courtyard. Owen pushed open...