Part 43 (2/2)
The incident involving Marc.u.m was described by him in an interview.
Hutto and Roller provided information about Cali.
Kolenda's comments about Bostick on the occasion of the renaming ceremony were included in Staff Sergeant Brandon Aird's Army public-affairs story ”Afghanistan Base Renamed in Honor of Commander Who Died in Combat,” July 11, 2008.
Information about the attack on Wanat came from interviews with Ostlund, Kennedy, and Queck, as well as several other sources: the Army's official ”AR 15-6 Investigation Findings and Recommendations into the Incident at Wanat, August 13, 2008”; a study by the staff of the U.S. Army Combat Studies Inst.i.tute, Wanat: Combat Action in Afghanistan, 2008 Wanat: Combat Action in Afghanistan, 2008 (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Inst.i.tute Press, 2010); and the first draft of the latter, U.S. Army Combat Studies Inst.i.tute doc.u.ment. Other resources included Greg Jaffe, ”The Battle of Wanat,” (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Inst.i.tute Press, 2010); and the first draft of the latter, U.S. Army Combat Studies Inst.i.tute doc.u.ment. Other resources included Greg Jaffe, ”The Battle of Wanat,” Was.h.i.+ngton Post, Was.h.i.+ngton Post, October 4, 2009, and Mark Bowden, ”Echoes from a Distant Battlefield,” October 4, 2009, and Mark Bowden, ”Echoes from a Distant Battlefield,” Vanity Fair Vanity Fair, December 2011.
Information about 6-4 Cav's coming into Afghanistan was taken from interviews with Spiszer, Markert, and Nelson.
In interviews, Kolenda and Hutto described their farewell.
David Roller's email home was provided by him.
Chapter 21: Chess with No Rules
Biographical information about Rob Yllescas came from interviews with his widow, Dena, who also shared many of his emails and pictures home.
Details about Yllescas at the outpost were provided by Mazzocchi, Meshkin, Safulko, Tucker, Briley, Victorino, and others.
Details about various attacks on the outpost were offered by Mazzocchi, Meshkin, Safulko, Tucker, Briley, Victorino, and others.
Biographical information about Meshkin was taken from interviews with him.
Biographical information about Mazzocchi came from interviews with him.
The meeting with Abdul Rahman was described by Meshkin and also covered in a memo obtained by the author.
Briley related his thoughts in an interview.
Casualty information came from an ISAF memo obtained by the author.
Biographical information about Safulko was provided in interviews with him.
The incident involving Franklin was decscribed by Meshkin.
Chapter 22: After He Finished Was.h.i.+ng the Blood Off
Information about the October 13, 2008, shura was taken from an ISAF memo obtained by the author.
Information about the October 25, 2008, attack was provided in interviews with Mazzocchi, Tucker, Safulko, Meshkin, and Briley.
Information about the attack on Yllescas came from interviews with Tucker, Briley, Safulko, Mazzocchi, Walker, and Victorino.
Information about Yllescas's early medical treatment was furnished by Brewer and Cuda.
Information about the medevac that was sent to get Yllescas came from Spiszer, Markert, and Nelson.
Mazzocchi's interaction with the local man whose wife was wounded was described by Mazzocchi in an interview.
Information about Amin s.h.i.+r came from an interview with Walker. Information regarding his current location was provided by Victorino.
Dena Yllescas described in several interviews how she learned of her husband's injury. She also contemporaneously expressed many of her thoughts and feelings in her blog at yllescasfamily.blogspot.com.
Mazzocchi's conversation with Commander Jawed was recalled by Mazzocchi in an interview.
The shura meeting was described in interviews with Meshkin, Mazzocchi, and Tucker.
Information about Pecha's a.s.signment to the outpost was provided by Pecha in interviews.
Markert's feelings were expressed in interviews with the author and also relayed in a contemporaneous email to a fellow officer.
President Bush's bedside visit was described by Dena Yllescas; information was shared with his office. Bush's jog with Christian Bagge was reported in Richard Benedetto, ”Amputee Iraq Vet Fulfills Wish, Jogs with Bush,” USA Today, USA Today, June 27, 2006. June 27, 2006.
Chapter 23: What Was Wrong with Kaine Meshkin
The November 2008 attacks on the outpost were described by Pecha, Meshkin, Mazzocchi, Safulko, and Tucker in interviews.
Information about Rob Yllescas's medical treatment was provided by his widow, Dena, in interviews and in her blog at yllescasfamily.blogspot.com.
The excerpt from ”You Save Me” by Kenny Chesney, written by Brett James and Troy Verges, from Chesney's 2005 alb.u.m The Road and the Radio, The Road and the Radio, is used by permission. is used by permission.
The description of the craniotomy procedure was based on information from the Web site for the Mayfield Clinic for the Brain & Spine, /PE-Craniotomy.htm, and was reviewed by Ron Warnick, M.D., and Mary Haverbusch, R.N.
In interviews, Mazzocchi, Safulko, and Pecha shared information about the plans for the outpost after Yllescas's death.
Meshkin recalled his response to Yllescas's death in interviews. His interactions with Dena Yllescas were described by both of them.
Information about the plans made by George and Brown was offered by both men in interviews.
Brown's outreach to Kolenda and Pecha was recalled in interviews by all three men.
The attack statistics were provided in an ISAF memo obtained by the author.
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