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"MSG Younquist has again provided invaluable service to our nation with this book. His ability to relate personnel, equipment and training to mission requirements makes The 143rd in Iraq a must read for military professionals and civilian leaders alike…I wish I had had this book when I was teaching in ROTC.” |
“The 143rd in Iraq” took 2 gold medals at the Florida Authors and Publishers Association convention. The first gold medal was for the cover design and the second was for the category memoir/biography. The 143rd spent 2003/2004 in Western Baghdad and among other things were awarded 13 Purple Hearts, 10 Army Commendation Medals with “V” for valor, The Meritorious Unit Citation and the Valorous Unit Citation.
Go To The Following Link To See The Details On The Book.Https://Emeraldlakebooks.Com/Amz143rd
Click on this link to view see an interview I did for The Veterans Corner for Nutmeg TV.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=youtube+video+marc+youngquist+nutmeg+TV#id=1&vid=e1fec4f0d764f6345bb8fbdcc172f78e&action=click
This is the forward to, THE 143rd IN IRAQ
FOREWORD
The mothers and fathers of America will give you their sons and
daughters...with the confidence in you that you will not needlessly waste
their lives. And you dare not. That’s the burden the mantle of leadership
places upon you. You could be the person who gives the orders that will
bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of young men and
women. It is an awesome responsibility. You cannot fail. You dare not
fail...
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Eisenhower Hall Theater Speech to the Corps of Cadets, May 15, 1991
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe,
and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
This book is not just my story; this book is the story of the 143rd
Military Police Company. This is a story that almost no one knows.
Despite seeing combat almost every day for a year in Iraq, very few
news articles were written about our unit’s exploits. Those articles
speak only in very general terms concerning what the unit did and
who did it. No articles were printed in hometown newspapers about
the awards the unit received; in no small part because those much deserved
awards were not forthcoming.
In addition, I have run into people who know the soldiers I served
with. Not one of them knew any of the details about what their
friends, coworkers, employees, or relatives had done in Iraq.
For the past several years, I have presented a Veterans Day talk at a
local middle school. The core of that talk is about the bravery and
dedication displayed by soldiers from the 143rd on one particularly
hellish twenty-four-hour period during our 2003/2004 deployment
in Iraq. Throughout this talk, I make mention of only one name—the
name of the young lady who was killed on a very bad night. Her name
was Rachel Bosveld. She was not assigned to the Connecticut National
Guard, but was assigned to the active-duty unit we worked closely
with.
During that attack, six soldiers from the 143rd went to the aid of
Specialist Rachel Bosveld and the two soldiers who were with her.
All three had sustained life-threatening injuries, and in Specialist
Bosveld’s case, her injuries were, unfortunately, fatal. Under fire, the
three injured soldiers were carried across the open area of the Police
Station compound into the protected confines of the station, where
lifesaving first aid was performed.
Following one Veteran’s Day presentation, a teacher at that school,
approached to ask if I knew a very close friend of hers, who was
stationed in Iraq. As it happens, her close friend was one of the soldiers
who also survived the night Rachel Bosveld died. Her friend, along
with five other soldiers, was awarded a medal for valor for rescuing
the three wounded soldiers while under fire at the risk of their own
lives. The teacher had never known this about her good friend, Staff
Sergeant Andrea Cloutier.
I realized from our conversation that if a close friend didn’t know
about her actions, her boss, Governor Dannel P. Malloy, likely didn’t
know, either. The Governor was grateful that I wrote a letter to him,
sharing the exploits of one of the Connecticut State Troopers assigned
to his personal security detail. He knew that the trooper had been
in the National Guard and had served in Iraq, but nothing more.
On another occasion, I was at a function and found myself sitting
next to the Chief of Police for the City of Bridgeport. I told him that
Alexander Wilde, one of my better soldiers, was currently working
for him.
He told me that he knew Wilde and stated that he was a good officer,
but he did not know until that moment that Wilde had saved the
lives of two soldiers in a night attack at Abu Ghraib Police Station.
These conversations repeated themselves many more times, with the
same response each time. No one knew. With this book, I am trying
let everyone know.
Throughout this book, I mention some soldiers by name, but not all
of them. Each of the soldiers has a story to tell, and unfortunately, I
cannot cover them all. In some cases, the soldiers were so low-profile
that they went about their business as good soldiers without any
fanfare and without being noticed.
That is not to say that they were not valuable assets or that they did
not face risks, just that they were quiet, unassuming troops doing a
fantastic job. What I hope to accomplish is to inform people of the
great job the 143rd Military Police Company did, in spite of all the
factors that worked against them, seeking to foil their efforts at every
turn.
“The 143rd in Iraq” took 2 gold medals at the Florida Authors and Publishers Association convention. The first gold medal was for the cover design and the second was for the category memoir/biography. The 143rd spent 2003/2004 in Western Baghdad and among other things were awarded 13 Purple Hearts, 10 Army Commendation Medals with “V” for valor, The Meritorious Unit Citation and the Valorous Unit Citation.
Go To The Following Link To See The Details On The Book.Https://Emeraldlakebooks.Com/Amz143rd
Click on this link to view see an interview I did for The Veterans Corner for Nutmeg TV.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=youtube+video+marc+youngquist+nutmeg+TV#id=1&vid=e1fec4f0d764f6345bb8fbdcc172f78e&action=click
This is the forward to, THE 143rd IN IRAQ
FOREWORD
The mothers and fathers of America will give you their sons and
daughters...with the confidence in you that you will not needlessly waste
their lives. And you dare not. That’s the burden the mantle of leadership
places upon you. You could be the person who gives the orders that will
bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of young men and
women. It is an awesome responsibility. You cannot fail. You dare not
fail...
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Eisenhower Hall Theater Speech to the Corps of Cadets, May 15, 1991
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe,
and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
This book is not just my story; this book is the story of the 143rd
Military Police Company. This is a story that almost no one knows.
Despite seeing combat almost every day for a year in Iraq, very few
news articles were written about our unit’s exploits. Those articles
speak only in very general terms concerning what the unit did and
who did it. No articles were printed in hometown newspapers about
the awards the unit received; in no small part because those much deserved
awards were not forthcoming.
In addition, I have run into people who know the soldiers I served
with. Not one of them knew any of the details about what their
friends, coworkers, employees, or relatives had done in Iraq.
For the past several years, I have presented a Veterans Day talk at a
local middle school. The core of that talk is about the bravery and
dedication displayed by soldiers from the 143rd on one particularly
hellish twenty-four-hour period during our 2003/2004 deployment
in Iraq. Throughout this talk, I make mention of only one name—the
name of the young lady who was killed on a very bad night. Her name
was Rachel Bosveld. She was not assigned to the Connecticut National
Guard, but was assigned to the active-duty unit we worked closely
with.
During that attack, six soldiers from the 143rd went to the aid of
Specialist Rachel Bosveld and the two soldiers who were with her.
All three had sustained life-threatening injuries, and in Specialist
Bosveld’s case, her injuries were, unfortunately, fatal. Under fire, the
three injured soldiers were carried across the open area of the Police
Station compound into the protected confines of the station, where
lifesaving first aid was performed.
Following one Veteran’s Day presentation, a teacher at that school,
approached to ask if I knew a very close friend of hers, who was
stationed in Iraq. As it happens, her close friend was one of the soldiers
who also survived the night Rachel Bosveld died. Her friend, along
with five other soldiers, was awarded a medal for valor for rescuing
the three wounded soldiers while under fire at the risk of their own
lives. The teacher had never known this about her good friend, Staff
Sergeant Andrea Cloutier.
I realized from our conversation that if a close friend didn’t know
about her actions, her boss, Governor Dannel P. Malloy, likely didn’t
know, either. The Governor was grateful that I wrote a letter to him,
sharing the exploits of one of the Connecticut State Troopers assigned
to his personal security detail. He knew that the trooper had been
in the National Guard and had served in Iraq, but nothing more.
On another occasion, I was at a function and found myself sitting
next to the Chief of Police for the City of Bridgeport. I told him that
Alexander Wilde, one of my better soldiers, was currently working
for him.
He told me that he knew Wilde and stated that he was a good officer,
but he did not know until that moment that Wilde had saved the
lives of two soldiers in a night attack at Abu Ghraib Police Station.
These conversations repeated themselves many more times, with the
same response each time. No one knew. With this book, I am trying
let everyone know.
Throughout this book, I mention some soldiers by name, but not all
of them. Each of the soldiers has a story to tell, and unfortunately, I
cannot cover them all. In some cases, the soldiers were so low-profile
that they went about their business as good soldiers without any
fanfare and without being noticed.
That is not to say that they were not valuable assets or that they did
not face risks, just that they were quiet, unassuming troops doing a
fantastic job. What I hope to accomplish is to inform people of the
great job the 143rd Military Police Company did, in spite of all the
factors that worked against them, seeking to foil their efforts at every
turn.
- Army Air Force Roundtable of CT/Marc Youngquist - Archivehttps://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=7396685a1ab713a0JmltdHM9MTY4MjgxMjgwMCZpZ3VpZD0zN2NmYmFkZS1hMjJiLTZkYzctMzU1OC1hODQ1YTNkNTZjMjImaW5zaWQ9NTAwNg&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=37cfbade-a22b-6dc7-3558-a845a3d56c22&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9hcmNoaXZlLm9yZy9kZXRhaWxzL2NwYWN0LUFybXlfQWlyX0ZvcmNlX1JvdW5kdGFibGVfb2ZfQ1RfTWFyY19Zb3VuZ3F1aXN0&ntb=1
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WebMar 13, 2018 · Army Air Force Roundtable of CT/Marc Youngquist. MST Marc Youngquist (Ret) provides a first hand insight into the training of Iragi Police personnel and the challenges of doing so considering the region and its culture.
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