With the Marines at the Battle for Sangin is a battle-intensive and deeply personal war memoir following a small Marine quick infantry detachment who land in Afghanistan with acts of killing beginning immediately. Not a week goes by before the Marines experience firsthand deaths of friendly forces, Marine casualties, enemy combatants killed, numerous IED strikes, air strikes, straffing runs and around the clock patrolling in hostile territory where death is ever present. As the regional direct response Quick Reaction Force in the northern Sangin river valley of Helmand Province, the Marines...