Description

This is actually the tale of the small-group of troops in the 101st Airborne Division’s legendary 502nd Infantry Regiment—a device referred to as “the Black Center Brigade.” Used in late 2005 to Iraq’s alleged Triangle of Death, a veritable meat mill just south of Baghdad, the Black Minds discovered themselves in perhaps the country’s most dangerous area at its most dangerous period. Struck by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, struggling with an especially large death toll, and enduring a persistent dysfunction in management, people of one Dark Center platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, right into a tailspin of bad self-control, drug abuse, and brutality.Four 1st Platoon troopers might perpetrate one of the very heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed throughout the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi woman and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. With explosives.Black Minds is definitely an account of the epic, heartbreaking implementation of 1st Platoon three additional 1st Platoon troopers could be inundated in a distant outpost—one murdered instantly and two obtained from the picture, their mutilated corpses discovered nights later booby-trapped.