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Full Battle Rattle
- My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Publisher's Summary
With over 100 combat missions and 24 years as a Green Beret, Changiz Lahidji is an expert in military operations. Full Battle Rattle is the legendary audiobook memoir of a soldier who served America in every war after Vietnam.
Master Sergeant Changiz Lahidji served on Special Forces A-teams longer than anyone in history, completing over a hundred combat missions in Afghanistan. Changiz is a Special Forces legend. He also happens to be the first Muslim Green Beret.
Changiz served this country starting with Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, when he entered Tehran on a one-man mission to spy on Iranian soldiers guarding the US embassy where 52 US diplomats were being held hostage. Three years later he was in Beirut, Lebanon, when a suicide car bomb exploded in front of the US embassy, killing 83 people. Weeks after that he was shot by Hezbollah terrorists on a night mission.
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, he led a convoy that was ambushed on its way to Fallujah. He was clearing houses in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993 when a US Black Hawk helicopter was shot down 50 feet away from him in the incident that inspired Black Hawk Down. In 2002 he dressed as a farmer and snuck into eastern Afghanistan and located Osama bin Laden for the CIA. Along the way, Changiz earned numerous commendations, including the Special Forces Legion of Merit, Purple Hearts, and many others. Last year he was nominated for induction in Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and cited as "the finest noncommissioned officer to ever serve in Special Forces".
Written with Ralph Pezzullo, Changiz's story is an amazing audiobook of perseverance and courage, of combat and one man's love for his adopted country.
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- Matthew Oliphant
- 2020-03-26
Excellent book!
I loved the book and the story especially how the propagandist Changiz handles the assumptions of people including ignorant racism.
The narrator was really good, better than most that I have heard.
I wasn’t very clear on his progression from Ranger to SF I have a family member who served in SF back in the early eighties and he told me you had to have four years experience or rank of E4 or E5 Sargent prior to applying to and trying out for SF?
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-09-16
Great book
I really enjoyed this book. Having to go through all that this man did while remaining grateful and humble is a great lesson for us all. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys this genre of writing.
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