The Devil’s Sandbox: With the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry at War in Iraq

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Citizen soldiers have played a unique role within the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – and their extended deployment and role within the wars battles have changed the towns, cities, and states they hail from as well. The Devil’s Sandbox – a nickname for Iraq – is the tale of the 2nd Battalion of Oregon’s 162nd Infantry Regiment (2/162), and provides readers an intimate take a look at the truth of National Guardsmen at war. Follow the two/162 from their call-up in the summertime of 2003 to their return home within the spring of 2005.

Witness one of the vital fiercest fighting of the Iraq War and one of the vital most rewarding and forward-taking a look civil affairs projects aimed at rebuilding the broken nation of Iraq. Read how the town in Oregon struggles to do without the people – the accountants, lawyers, mechanics, et. al. – who went to serve within the war.

The Devil’s Sandbox
offers a rare insight into what this war means for the citizen-soldier at home and in another country, and chronicles a battalion that earned the glory of the regular Army soldiers who fought alongside them in one of the vital toughest battles within the Iraq war.

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