Packed for the Wrong Trip

FIRST EDITION

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Some names and situations have been changed to protect the careers, livelihoods, and reputations of men and women who served at Abu Ghraib who, despite their humanitarian efforts, would rather not be associated with one of the US military’s darkest hours.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Griffith, W. Zach.

Title: Packed for the wrong trip : a new look inside Abu Ghraib and the citizen-soldiers who redeemed America’s honor / W. Zach Griffith.

Description: New York : Arcade Publishing, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047251 (print) | LCCN 2016002330 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781628726459 (hardcover : alkaline paper) | ISBN 9781628726466 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Abu Ghraib Prison. | Iraq War, 2003-2011--Prisoners and prisons. | Maine. Army National Guard. Field Artillery Battalion, 152nd. | Soldiers--United States--Biography. | Prisoners of war--Iraq--Biography. | Soldiers--United States--Social conditions. | Prisoners of war--Iraq--Social conditions. | Iraq War, 2003-2011--Regimental histories--United States. | BISAC: HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-). | HISTORY / Military / United States. | HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.

Classification: LCC DS79.767.D38 G74 2016 (print) | LCC DS79.767.D38 (ebook) | DDC 956.7044/37--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047251

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