Reddit reviews Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
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House borne-IEDs I had heard about in my BDE while I was deployed in 2010. You can read about it here starting at SGT Dustin Hennigar (A/2-502 IN).
A bunch of really horrible stories I've read were depicted in Level Zero Heroes. The first being a retelling of when one of the guys was in Iraq clearing a house and stumbled into a terrorist cell that had wired the entire house with propane IEDs. The other was about was a blue-on-blue incident with A-10 CAS firing on an ODA.
On a personal level, I have no interest in sharing the specifics on my stories since I had people (peers) play monday morning quarterback. I don't share my stories because I want a better play through of what you think I could have done. Trust me, I've literally re-imagined it a thousand times.
I will say that there is nothing in this world that can adequately prepare you for the effects of an IED. The deafening silence and the smell of ozone, the yelling if you're okay, the amount of blood, the shattered bones, the dust that clings in the air, the confusion of a concussion, the anxiety if an ambush is happening, the screaming of commands, or the desperate prayers.
Worst part was how physically and emotionally drained I was after the first IED I experienced. I was a shell of an entire human being. No life force or emotion. I was sitting around a bunch of men in silence when I realized I had been trained extensively in treating traumatic injuries but I had not been trained very well at all in dealing with the psychological trauma that followed after.