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But in Marja, it became immediately clear that I’d heard stories about snipers in Helmand and Kandahar, but they were often about a possibly mythical 16-year-old Chechen girl, so it was easy to dismiss them. Sleepless nights leading up to it there was much talk of antiaircraft guns and improvised explosive devices and hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of hardened and well-prepared fighters waiting. I was joining the first wave of Marines, who would be dropped into Marja before dawn on Day 1.

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They see a guy running around with a camera instead of a rifle: “Who is this crazy jerk?”īen Anderson, while working on the movie 'The Battle for Marjah.' Credit Dave Belluz/HBOĮveryone, including the Taliban, knew that “the big one,” the invasion of Marja, was going to happen. I remember thinking, as I’m sure most combatants think when Through the adrenaline-soaked recollections I see a patchy beard and the distinct British helmet cover. Three days into the assault I met Ben Anderson. We would be called Marja Marines and we would tell our grandchildren about it.

Our leaders promised us a place in the annals of Marine Corps history, right next to Hue and Fallujah. It was my second deployment to Afghanistan and my battalion had been ordered to assault the Taliban stronghold of In February of 2010 I was a 22-year-old Marine corporal and leader of an eight-man scout sniper team. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.” So what did Tim O’Brien say about war stories? “It comes down to gut instinct. I hesitate also because I was a kid who was in situations like in the books I once read to make sense of my father’s service in Vietnam. They almost always make the characters seem larger than life, as if those characters had a say in shaping the story. War stories can be filled with bravado and some truths

Maybe not a war story of the likes that is told at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post, but a war story nonetheless. I hesitate to write this because it is a war story. The two became friends, and the following is their joint account of the weeklong hunt for one sniper, told from their different viewpoints on the battlefield. Ben Anderson, a journalist and filmmaker, accompanied the team on the assault. The sniper, like others in the area, had proved surprisingly effective, and Corporal Gibbons-Neff’s team was ordered to flush him out. Thomas Gibbons-Neff was the leader of a Marine Corps scout sniper team that came under fire from a Taliban sniper. During the 2010 assault on Marja in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Cpl.

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