Read the first chapter of the BRONCO STRONG book for free
Read the first chapter of the BRONCO STRONG book for free.
Retired US Army Colonel Angela M. Odom shares the story of her time in Iraq and the brave men and women she led as a battalion commander.
In her stirring memoir, Bronco Strong, Angela M. Odom, a personnel services battalion commander, recounts daily life as a Soldier in an active war zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Odom came into command of the 15th Personnel Services Battalion in 2006, and immediately they were deployed to Baghdad via Kuwait. The Soldiers under her command had proved themselves before in the same theater of war. But things had changed in their time at home, and now they found themselves walking into a living nightmare.
The Soldiers of Task Force Bronco bravely endured, fulfilling their monumentally difficult support tasks throughout a grueling fifteen-month extended deployment. But things didn’t always go according to plan.
Angela M. Odom was given a huge challenge and opportunity in late 2006: to lead a battalion of well-trained soldiers in a vast, complicated mission in Iraq.
She had less than sixty days before she and her battle-tested Soldiers would have to deploy, leaving everything behind, including children, for the theater of war. Odom herself left a sixteen-month-old son.
This emotional firsthand account of the day-to-day life of a Soldier in Iraq is told not only from the view of a commanding officer, but also from that of the brave men and women who served under her command.
She captures every aspect of military service in vivid and heartrending detail: the fear, the lingering sadness, and the bittersweet joy of homecoming.
Discover life through the eyes of servicemen and women in active war zones as they defend our freedoms from tyranny and terror.
Read the first chapter of the BRONCO STRONG book for free.
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