Summary

In Chapter 5, Mason's unit is deployed to Colombia in 2006 on a non-combat mission to train a brigade of elite Colombian commandos conducting anti-guerilla operations in the jungles. He feels guilty that he is away while Natalia is home with the baby, but also understands now that he needs to refocus himself to become the kind of man his family needs him to be. Ocho's unprofessional attitude and constant complaining about the boredom of the mission threatens the team's morale and necessary cohesiveness, earning him a stern rebuke from Jefe. Mason describes in detail the well-trained and disciplined young Colombian commandos whose combat experience in the dirty, unsymmetrical war against the communist guerrilla makes the American soldiers' own level of enemy engagement pale in comparison to the Colombians. Ocho has a rant about never having killed a communist before among all the...