Tuesday, June 14, 2016

13 Hours part 5

Chapter 5: the compound is slowly losing control to all the intruders, Chris Stevens and his communications expert went to hide. The Americans and the 17th February leaders were frustrated because they were stuck waiting for authorization to take back the compound. They soon decided to go ahead and take it back without authorization and knowing that this will get the attention of many because they were fighting radical Islamist. The agents decided to go through the back road to attract the least amount of attention. As they approached the compound Jack Silva was shot at but the rounds couldn't reach and they begin to wonder if they are snipers stationed in nearby buildings. The back road soon became a very dangerous tunnel so the Americans tried to go into nearby buildings and use sniper like tactics to take the compound back. Once inside the compound the Americans try to communicate with the State Department in Washington. The effort to find Chris Stevens was brought to a halt because of the smoke and diesel fumes.

13 Hours part 4

As chapter 3 begins the Mark (author) starts to talk about Christ Stevens and says his military background. Which includes experiencesome at Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. He has various interferences with anti-Government forces which makes him a great person to deal with what's happening in Libya. The rest of the chapter just talks about how Stevens is the right guy to be in Libya. Chapter 4 starts and it's 9/11 of 2012. It was the day that the trailer for "Innocence of Muslims" and that infuriated the Islamic and they stormed the US embassy in Cairo and replaced the American flag with a black jihadist flag. As night fell a truck pull into the Annex, as it past through the gate several dozen men jumped out and stormed through the entrance. No alarm was sound so the attackers face little to no resistance. They took control of the facility, they used diesel fuel to set parts of the compound on fire. The 7 Americans in the compound all take defensive positions. They seek help from a group named the February 17 fighters but the Americans can't communicate with them so they grab a civilian who can. When they finally connected with them, they asked for air and ground support. As they approach the compound they get confirmation that they're around 20-30 men armed with AK-47.

Monday, June 13, 2016

13 hours part 3

Beginning of the second chapter he begins by explaining the CIA headquarters in Libya. It's where the 20 or so Americans worked and lived. There was four little house like shacks that they lived in. As the chapter progresses he briefly describes the experiences and former jobs that his five partners had. From there he says that there isn't much to do between jobs because movement out of the Annex was very limited and they couldn't talk to anyone back home. At the closing stages of the chapter they begin to start getting threats about how they were gonna get attacked. This was around 9/11 of 2012 so the entire team was on edge.

13 Hours part 2

The beginning of the first chapter is a flashback to June 5th, 1967 when the United States diplomatic post in Beghazi, Libya was attacked by a mob. The was taken over and had ten American hostages until the British came to rescue the day for the Americans. The rest of the chapter is just about Mark (the author) talking about the experiences of partner Jack Silva in previous extractions to the middle east and other undisclosed locations.

13 Hours

My 3rd book is "13 Hours: the Inside Account of What Really Happened in Beghazi" it's about and about the soldiers that were in the bloody assault on September 11th, 2012 and into the morning of the next day in Beghazi, Libya. These stories were told from the five survivors, Dave "D.B. Benton", Mark "Oz" Geist, Kris "Tanto" Paronto, Jack Silva, John "Tig" Tiegen, and Tyrone "Rone" Woods. Some other names have been withheld for and/or security reasons.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Wow this is going to be awkward its been soooo long since I've done one of these blogs. Well, let me just begin I started reading this new book Tapout by Eric Devine, The book is about a 17 year old boy living with his mother, the issue comes in because his mother is regularly beaten by her boyfriend. The book starts off  with the lines "I am a pussy, I know this, and not much else" Tony relives the same nightmares that he through with Cameron that he did with his father, they both abuse her (pg 8). Tony finally finally decides to stand up for himself but most importantly for his mother (pg 19) Tony finally stood up for his mother by kicking her boyfriend out of the house. He blames his mother for all the hardships he lives through beacuse of the men his mom dates. Tony not only has a hard life at home because he hears his mom getting beat by Cameron but he also gets bullied a t school by one of his "friends" Rob. Tony sees one of Camerons nephew at school and was threatened by him who is even crazier than Cameron. Well that's all I've read so far

Monday, October 5, 2015

World War Z

World War Z pg 38 :(. Okay so this book it's so fu... hard to get interested the first 20 or so pages are so boring to me. I don't want to know how the zombie takeover began. I just want to start reading of how you saw a "z" eating one of your co-workers face off and your actually glad because he was annoying and deep down you wanted him to die.
 Oh I must add if you got this book because you thought the movie was amazing, I have bad news the book it's nothing like the movie. Nonetheless the book is great (from what I've read). I was thinking what if there is a real zombie outburst I don't know what I'll do, I'll probably become a zombie in like the first week. The reason I say that is because this book has not told me how to survive the outburst it's just telling me all the horrible things that's happening and expects me not to get worried. Now that I think about it, I'll probably survive for longer I'll just climb a tree make my own little community up there I'm pretty sure they're not smart enough to climb trees.