A Few Bad Men: The True Story of US Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America
About this audiobook
A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of US Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men.
Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders, these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home.
A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit’s leader, Major Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty, and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president to American generals. When Fox Company returned to America, Galvin and his captain were the targets of the first Court of Inquiry in the Marines in fifty years.
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Fred Galvin served twenty-seven years in the US Marine Corps, beginning as a seventeen-year-old who rose from the enlisted ranks to become an officer. Serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and elsewhere, he led the first special operations company in the US Marines and earned forty-nine military medals and ribbons, including the Bronze Star. Following his retirement, he became a business entrepreneur, nonprofit executive director aiding families of service members killed in action, and a consultant to the Marine Corps, coordinating activities in the areas of cyberspace, electronic warfare, and psychological operations.
Victor Bevine has worked extensively both in front of and behind the camera for over thirty-five years. His thirty-minute short film, Desert Cross, which he wrote and directed, won accolades at the Athens International Film Festival. His screenplay Certainty was chosen for two prestigious writers' conferences (LA Outfest, Hamptons International Film Festival) and served as the basis for his first novel, published in October 2014 by Amazon's Lake Union imprint. Victor spent two seasons as artistic director of the LA Classical Theatre Lab and has worked extensively with nonprofits in New York and Los Angeles teaching the power of storytelling to a new generation of young people in underserved communities. As an actor, Victor has appeared on and off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle in the Square, and Playwrights Horizons, on the big screen (most notably in the screen adaptation of John Knowles's A Separate Peace), and in dozens of guest and recurring roles on television. Victor is cofounder and CEO of the World Freerunning Parkour Federation (WFPF), was coexecutive producer of MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge, and is cofounder of USA Parkour and the international nonprofit IPF, which is dedicated to the advancement of parkour and its positive impact on the lives of youth worldwide. A four-time Audie nominee, winner of multiple Earphones Awards, with over 350 narrated titles to his credit, Victor is proud to be among the corps of narrators and audio professionals dedicated to bringing great storytelling to a new world of "readers."
Sal Manna is a journalist, author, and historian who has written for magazines such as Time, Playboy, and Los Angeles, and newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and Boston Herald. He has also co-authored the memoirs The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw and Dyno-O-Mite: Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times.
