The green marine

"Dubliner Graham Dale was volunteering with a Texan fire department when the planes hit the World Trade Center in New York. As events unfolded, he realised that he had to do something to defend his adopted country. There and then, he made a decision that would affect the rest of his life -he drove to the nearest army recruitment centre and enlisted in the US Marines. After surviving the notoriously tough San Diego boot camp, he joined the ranks of one of the most elite branches of the United States military and, two years later, found himself patrolling the dangerous western desert of war-torn Iraq. Throughout his deployment in Iraq, Dale kept a journal which gives us an astonishing account of one man's fight in the front line of America's War on Terror. Told with brutal honesty, he gives us the unique and rare perspective of an Irishman fighting for a foreign army in a very foreign land."--BOOK JACKET.