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Following is an excerpt from Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, by Rajiv Candrasekaran, out this week from Knopf.

As top Army commanders cast about for spare troops to go to Kandahar in 2009, they settled upon a brigade that had never deployed to a war zone and had spent the previous year preparing for a tour in Iraq.

The unit’s commander, Col. Harry Tunnell, got the message about his new mission while he and his troops were conducting their last major exercise before shipping off to Iraq.

Tunnell had been gravely wounded in Iraq, where he led a battalion of paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

One of the more notorious recent examples, oddly not cited by Ricks, is Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV, who for a while was allowed to remain in.

One of the more notorious recent examples, oddly not cited by Ricks, is Col. Harry D. Tunnell IV, who for a while was allowed to remain in.

When in , the Queen appointed him Life.

COL Harry D. Tunnell IV commands the.

During a year career as a soldier that included duty as an artillery forward observer in Vietnam and ended as commander of US Central Command.

On this day 15 years ago, Sky Soliders boarded 17 C17 aircraft to conduct a mass tactical combat parachute assault onto Bashar Airfield in northern Iraq.

In October 2003, his convoy was ambushed by insurgents near the city of Kirkuk. He was shot through the leg when he stepped out of his Humvee. Although he eventually regained the ability to walk, running long distances was out of the question.

That would have been a career ender for most officers, but the Army didn’t want to lose