{"id":11038,"date":"2025-09-01T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:40:12","slug":"bravo-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/bravo-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<i>Bravo Company<\/i>, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the US Army\u2019s 82nd Airborne Division.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar\u2019s notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers had been killed in action, a dozen more had lost limbs, and an astonishing half of the company had earned Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n<p>In the decade since, two of the soldiers have died by suicide, more than a dozen have tried, and others admit they\u2019ve considered it. Declared at \u201cextraordinary risk\u201d by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Bravo Company was chosen as test subjects for a new approach to the veteran crisis, focusing less on isolated individuals and more on the group.<\/p>\n<p>Written with an insider\u2019s eye and ear and drawing on extensive interviews and original reporting,\u00a0<i>Bravo Company<\/i>\u00a0follows the men from their initial enlistment and training, through their deployment and a major shift in their mission, and then on to what has happened in the decade since, as they returned to combat in other units or moved on with their lives as civilians, or struggled to.<\/p>\n<p>This is a powerful, insightful, and memorable account of a war that didn\u2019t end for these soldiers just because Bravo Company came home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bravo Company<\/strong><br \/>\nAn Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath<br \/>\nBy: Ben Kesling<br \/>\nNarrated by: Ben Kesling<br \/>\nLength: 12 hrs and 47 mins<br \/>\nRelease date: 11-01-22<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nFormat and Bitrate: M4B@125 kbps<br \/>\nSize: 698.92 MB<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/1445b986098102f5c142b84148a55158\/Bravo_Company\ua789_An_Afghanistan_Deployment_and_Its_Aftermath_[B0B61VGTQQ].m4b.html\"><strong>Download from RAPIDGATOR<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ddownload.com\/jof57f67nt5n\/Bravo_Company%EA%9E%89_An_Afghanistan_Deployment_and_Its_Aftermath_[B0B61VGTQQ].m4b\"><strong>Download from DDOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan In\u00a0Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[2568],"class_list":["post-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-ben-kesling","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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