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Try free nowIn Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days-and half of them died.
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Francis J. "Bing" West served in Vietnam as a Marine infantry officer, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Dean of Research at the Naval War College, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, and a lead CNN commentator during Desert Storm. A frequent contributor to defense journals, West is also the author nine books.
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