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GREAT NEWS!! I just accepted an offer for book I've wanted to write for ten years now. It's tentatively called DEATH STRIKE, and it's about the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment during their 2006-2007 deployment to the Haditha Triad region of Iraq's Al Anbar Province. Their story, which is completely untold, is, in my opinion, one of the greatest war stories of all time. Da Capo Press will publish it. Da Capo is a great publisher and they specialize in military titles. They are an imprint of Hachette, which is one of the "Big Five" publishers in the world. Here's a photo I shot during a patrol with Marines of Weapons Company along MSR Bronze (I was embedded with them in February - March, 2007). I'll post updates as they come! #USMC #Iraq #MarineCorps #EdDarack #Book #WarBook #NewBook

U.S. Marines load themselves and their gear into an idling CH-47D Chinook helicopter at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, near Bridgeport, California. After weeks of intense mountain warfare training undertaken prior to a deployment to Afghanistan, Chinooks arrived and swept them to more comfortable terrain. The Chinook is the fastest helicopter in the U.S. Military, and arguable the best high altitude helicopter ever produced, and can haul all sorts of cargo, either inside its spacious fuselage and slung below it. Read all about the incredible Chinook, the people who fly, crew, and maintain it, and the full, never-before-told story of Extortion 17 in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 – an Amazon Best Book of the Month, an Amazon number one best seller (in a number of categories), and available nationally this Tuesday, September 19! Order in the link in this account’s profile! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #CH47 #Chinook #Marines #MarineCorps #Army #ArmyAviation #ChinookHelicopter #Helicopter #CH47Chinook #TandemHelicopter #EdDarack #NewBook #Military #War #WarBook (at USMC Mountain Warfare School)

Another photo of mine demonstrating why infantry, like these Marines, LOVE Chinook helicopters and their pilots and crew. I shot this photo after a raid near Wanat, in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province. THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out on Tuesday, September 19, just a few days away! Pre-order through link in profile. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Army #Afghanistan #marines #EdDarack #NewBook #infantry (at Wanat, Konar, Afghanistan)

An AH-64 Apache Gunship tears out over the skies above Marines during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains. Apaches were always a welcome sight on combat ops! AH-64 Apache gunships played a huge role in the Extortion 17 story! Learn all about these awesome machines and the pilots who operate them in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17! It’s an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month! And it’s been a number one best seller on Amazon for over a month! It comes out in just a few days, on September 19 – Order in the link in the profile of this account and be one of the first to read the full, in-depth, never-before-told story of Extortion 17, including the role Apache gunships played in striking back at the enemy fighters who brought Extortion 17 down. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Afghanistan #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom #NewBook #AH64 #AH64Apache #Gunship #AH64ApacheGunship #HinduKush #MarineCorps #Marines #EdDarack (at Kunar, Konar, Afghanistan)

THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out in one week from today! Get the full, never-before-told inside story! Pre-order though the link in this account’s profile! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Afghanistan #NewBook #Military #MilitaryBook #WarBook #EdDarack #History #HistoryBook #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom #CH47 #Chinook #CH47Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #Helicopter #EdDarack (at Fort Collins, Colorado)

U.S. Army Black Hawk Air Ambulance “Dustoff” Helicopter launching from Bagram Air Base at Dusk, distant peaks of the Hindu Kush. This is one of my favorite photographs I’ve shot of a Black Hawk! It is one of the all important “Dustoff” air ambulance Medevac helicopters. Learn the role these machines and the soldiers who fly and crew them played in the Extortion 17 story in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17! Book comes out in just over two weeks on September 19! Pre-order through the link in the profile of this account! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Dustoff #Bagram #BagramAirfield #Afghanistan #HinduKush #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom #H60 #Helicopter #EdDarack (at Bagram, Afghanistan)

Got the lead story on the Newsweek homepage! It's my article about Extortion 17. Read the full story in my book THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17, available September 19! Pre-order through Facebook link in this account's profile. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Afghanistan #CH47 #chinook #ChinookHelicopter #EdDarack #NewBook #military #navyseals #nationalguard (at Fort Collins, Colorado)